Recycle-X in Latvia

Monday, 07 November 2011 15:43

Two members of our Recycle-X team, Javier Busturia and Ricardo Nascimento, will be present at the TechnoEcologies festival in Riga, Latvia starting November 3rd. Javier and Ricardo will show the project 'Plantas Parlantes' (Talking plants). They developed this project together with team member Jigni Wang and guest artist Gilberto Esparza. 'Plantas Parlantes' creates an electrical system through which it is possible to make sounds by touching the leaves of the plants.

For more info about Plantas Parlantes, please click here.

For more information about the TechnoEcologies festival, click here.

Digital Art Lab event: the Future

Monday, 03 October 2011 15:12

More than one year ago The Patching Zone started the Digital Art Lab project in collaboration with CKC Zoetermeer (Centre for Arts and Culture). Digital Art Lab focuses on innovation in art education by combining tradional artclasses with digital technology.

After the pilot year we want to present a selection of the work of Digital Art Lab and discuss our experiences with commercial product development and didactical and social renewal. Therefore we will host the Digital Art Lab event: the Future on October 25th. This event is meant for all the partners of the project and other stakeholders of The Patching Zone and CKC. The guests for the event have already received and invitation via e-mail.

For more information about the project, please click here

Game release Break-it-down

Wednesday, 01 June 2011 14:31

At the Open Day of CKC Zoetermeer on May 21th, the Digital Art Lab team launched their self-developed dancing game Break-it-down. The objective of the game is to exactly copy dancemoves that are shown on the screen. To monitor the movement of the players the game uses two Wii-controllers, that players attach to their arms.

The game was very popular at the Open Day, a lot of youngsters stayed around at the Lab to break the latest high score or to dance along with the other players. For a special video of the Digital Art Lab at the Open Day, please click here.

The Break-it-down game is made possible by the following people:

Digital Art Lab team

Peter Bogman - programming/game development

Emoke Bada - communication/ game design

Kristina Andersen - lead game design

Inge Ploum - continuity manager

CKC teachers:

Timothy Andrews - hiphop dance expert/game design

Kim Wijsbeek - technical advisor/musical expert/game design

Annelies de Graaf - props design

Digital Art Lab manager: Audrey Samson

Two Best Practice awards for The Patching Zone

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 19:58

Just before Queensday, two projects of The Patching Zone were awarded a 'Best Practice' award by Virtueel Platform (sectorinstitute for E-culture). According to their own website, Virtueel Platform gives these awards to the 'most innovative and inspiring new media products in arts, culture and society'. The two winning projects are: Go-for-IT! and Plantas Parlantes.

Go-for-IT! is an interactive citygame that uses street tiles with LED-lights. The players of the game step on the tiles in different patterns as shown by the flickering lights. For more information about this project, please click here.

Plantas Parlantes (Talking plants) was an installation that the Recycle-X team made in co-operation with Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza. An electrical circuit was created between a series of plants. When users touched the plants they closed the circuit, thereby producing different sounds, that were emplified by speakers. For more information about Plantas Parlantes, please click here.