Hacking and tracking fingers, automobiles, with Daito Manabe and Kaoru Sugano

SxSW 2013 Yanamoto, Manabe, and Sugano: open models for colabs — ***Yamamoto, Daito Manabe, and Kauru Sugano discuss the use of open models for creative collaboration during South by Southwest Interactive 2013. At Omni Hotel in downtown Austin, Texas.***

There was a point in time when I understood this. Now it remains as a mysterious poem.

Poem Note

Daito Manabe
Daito Manabe and MIKKO
Manabe artist
Genome data
Github
MAD fan fiction videos, about 600 videos
Cospring fan fiction videos
Motion capture data
Fans take the motion capture
Make videos
Professional artists also
It will be used creatively
White glove tracking like the Michael Jackson 2007 project
Radiohead house of cards 2008
Finger tracking with
Perfume performing
Figure skating tracking
3D printed flowers with IR LEDS

SxSW 2013 Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh MIKU culture

Crypton CEO Hiroyuki Itoh (l) visited with technology artist Kaoru Sugano (r) and a member of Itoh’s Crypton Future Media team (middle) representing Hatsune Miku at South by Southwest 2013. Somewhere, there is a picture but you know how that goes.

Sugano and Manabe both create tools for others to use for creation and connection. There’s quite a bit of art that comes out of their scientific, data-based experiments.

Such beauty in this transportation video, which has surprisingly few views on Youtube. The DOTs video, which displays transportation data points as a stunning graphical report on the whereabouts of vehicles, of roadways clear and jammed:

X’ Honda car sounds (Human V-tec.

Kaoru Sugano saved lives by connecting data to help victims of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Kaoru Sugano grew up with a passion for jazz music and a family who emphasized mathematics, so his synthesis of art and science evolved out of twin disciplines. Starting his career with Dentsu where he entered the marketing division and started thinking big. Big data, that is. He found ways to show data that were beautiful.

Jumping to Honda, he developed the Internavi Project, an auto navigation system and vehicle telematics device that reports on traffic jams and open passages. Then, responding to a crisis—the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011—Sugano ginned up data sets from Internavi to help people to escape, by showing them which roads were impassible and which could be used to get to safety. He also analyzed Twitter data to gather more specific data about passable and impassible roadways.

Sugano was able to share this mashed-up data with drivers who were using Internavi but he needed a way to get the vital information to others, so he uploaded the data (.kmz files, Keyhole Markup Language files that contain place marks, images, polygons, 3D models, textual descriptions, and more) to Google Earth and sent out a request for help. Others responded and the data went everywhere using open source applications, to smart phone apps, websites, wherever others could share it.

Puchecko, the very cute traveling AI automobile with its own Twitter account.

One of Sugano’s other projects has been a bit more lighthearted. He works with a traveling auto ambassador for Honda, an AI vehicle – and radio personality – named Pucheko. The car has its own Twitter site and has been trading tweets flirtatiously with Knight Rider.

Followers post to Pucheko and the car responds, as it travels to various cities and reports on its adventures. Sponsored by Honda, the car is part of the “Honda Smile Mission.”

Sugano demo’d another in-car product. Its function is nothing more than to emulate the sound of various models of cars. Turn on the in-car app and it will fill the driver compartment with engine sounds. There is apparently a fan base for Honda car sounds, and this video illustrates it:

DOTS map

X.s Honda sounds (Human V-tec).

Random notes taken while in a daze

Make of these what you will. They a exotic breadcrumbs floating in a conference room like motes of dust handing in a ray of sunlight, high up in a downtown building.

Honda
Free apps, use Internavi
Round movies DOTS
Smart phone movie filmed
BMG
Rundmovie ??
Movie shared Youtube and FB
Honda also
Sounds of Honda
Joy of Honda
Sound of Honda
The sound of the Honda cars added to your driving experience
2012
Honda Link LNK
Connect car and phone together
Animated car
Maintenance information
Track fuel consumption
Location info (what locations are important to you)
Car navigation function
With car, traffic info, suggests best routes
In more than 60 countries
Incredible marketing ad for the app, find it
Car radio personality
Skyjamboree2012 ??
Petecho
With dialogue system
Honda smile mission
Car says where it is
Next destination based upon ??
Car’s posts, responds to Twitter and reples
Kniight Rider Twitter talks to Petecho’s Twitter

Listen to the presentation on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/officialsxsw/creative-collaboration-using?in=officialsxsw/sets/sxsw-interactive-2013

The availability of open-source libraries and frameworks has spawned rapid explorations in new expressional forms and has provided a common environment for collaboration between artists and creators. Further, the wide accessibility of these tools enables the participation of consumers in the creative process, thereby generating a dynamic of a different dimension. Daito Manabe, a cutting-edge media artist and ARS Electronica winner comes again to SXSW 2013. He and Kaoru Sugano, a creative technologist from Japanese advertising giant Dentsu, a Cannes Titanium 2012 winner, have duo session and will share current explorations in open-sourcing the creative process and discuss future possibilities. Two alchemists from the digital world will reveal their secret of creation.

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