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This repo is to track the MozFest 2016 production work
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Idea: generative art photobooth #143

Open mmmavis opened 7 years ago

mmmavis commented 7 years ago

Hey @Saallen and @edrushka 🍰

I just had this idea last night about setting up a "photobooth" at MozFest. Since the MozFest design direction this year is associated with generative art I'm thinking maybe we can have a generative art generator running on a computer. Attendees can go there and use the app to generate an image. We then project the art onto a screen/wall so people can take photos (using their own devices) with the art they just generated. We can incorporate MozFest colours and branding in the image as well (colours, watermark?, logo?).

What do you think? I know we don't have much time left for MozFest so I'm not sure if this idea fits in. I just thought this would be a good photo/social share opportunity for attendees. 😉

/cc @sabrinang @gvn

sabrinang commented 7 years ago

I think this is a fun idea @mmmavis ! I'm excited to feature a wide range of generative art ideas and we can have a branded frame somehow that includes colour/wordmark so it ties it back to the "One Web" theme this year.

I would be happy to help where I can with visual direction and it is an awesome opportunity for social, showcase artists and a digital memento of the event.

sabrinang commented 7 years ago

@rtanglao Roland has a bunch of visualizations and generative art I've seen him display around the office and he would be enthusiastic to contribute

edrushka commented 7 years ago

This might work on/near the 4th floor mainstage as that is a place people congregate and use for photos (I'm thinking of how people liked to pose with the red webmaker boxes a couple years back).

Definite +1 to the branded frame Sabrina mentioned above.

Saallen commented 7 years ago

This is great! +1 to @edrushka of main stage area. @mmmavis & @sabrinang @gvn would you be up for the challenge to curate this screen over the weekend outside of active stage times? I am also including our friends from @MozExhibit so they can feed ideas or comments in here too

xmatthewx commented 7 years ago

Very very cool. We could also run the photo thru Processing to add text, glitch, etc. cc @Pomax

MozExhibit commented 7 years ago

This sounds great. It also allows the public (that will see art&design around the building) to become more part of the creation of the visual identity of the festival itself. An ad-hoc participatory element to contribute to the whole design theme. I like this. An install on 4th Floor main stage sounds perfect. I think the glitch element would be key here too - if we have a designed App that creates specific aesthetics, it would be important to incorporate a bit of "random-mess" of an extra processing-device. This, conceptually, could underline that the web cannot (should not) be monopolize or controlled or defined, etc, etc. Great stuff.

Pomax commented 7 years ago

Thinking even further, we could project the glitched photo back onto people and take a new photo for them to show off. Kind of a before and after shot, the after shot is properly tricked out.

sabrinang commented 7 years ago

I'm working on the printed stage designs on issue https://github.com/MozillaFoundation/Mozfest2016_production/issues/103 and a possible idea is projecting art onto the white logo lockup that would act as a small blank area for the stage that is on floor 4 that will not be occupied by speakers often: mozilla-festival_floor-4-stage-idea-projector

mmmavis commented 7 years ago

As MozFest is approaching I'm worried things will start eat up our time. Instead of my original proposal which is to develop a random art generator app for attendees to use let's just start simple for now. If we have bandwidth left we can then block time for creating the generator app.

I'm thinking maybe we can prepare a set of images. Attendees get to choose which one they will like to project onto the stage / take photo with. I've never used those digital projectors but I heard there are ones that take memory cards. If we can store images on the memory card and plug it into the projector that'll be perfect as we won't have to set up a laptop for this. OR even simpler, we can set our own schedule: e.g., on Sat morning we project image no. 1 and Sat afternoon we show image no. 2 etc. This way we have more control over our equips / setup. Thoughts?

rtanglao commented 7 years ago

@mmmavis @sabrinang it might be too late and they might not be suitable aesthetically but here are some:

rtanglao commented 7 years ago

thousands more of infoviz stuff that i've done :-) in case you have time now (i doubt it!) but maybe in the future https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=roland&tags=rolandtanglaoinfoviz&sort=date-posted-desc

happy mozfest you all! peace and love from Vancouver waving to the UK across the pond! ...Roland

sabrinang commented 7 years ago

@rtanglao Thanks for sharing these links to your info visuals! Yeah, unfortunately on Friday we were already in the full swing of things of setting up what we have finalized leaving Vancouver so we didn't get the chance to put this together but will check out your stuff for inspiration or collabs in the future :)

Also, there was artwork in the MozEx art exhibition that reminded me of you https://issuu.com/mozfest/docs/mozex/23 !

rtanglao commented 7 years ago

love https://issuu.com/mozfest/docs/mozex/23 thanks @sabrinang !

mmmavis commented 7 years ago

thanks @rtanglao ! I love the barcode ones especially! 📊📊📊📊📊📊📊📊📊📊