Documentation of HopDuff @ Absolut Nights Toronto
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Absolut Nights Toronto was a fantastic night! We had our LED tiles and projections pumping to the tunes with good people, good vibes, and great drinks!
Here is some of our documentation of our LED tiles with more to come! We’ll also be posting documentation of our process so stay tuned! We want to give a mega thanks to Absolut Vodka, BOOM Marketing, Young Lions Music Club, and 2nd Floor Events. This project would not have happened if it wasn’t for our awesome team who helped us make this project happen, our Technical Consultant Christopher Thomas, Daeve Fellows, Pete OHearn, Kayla Free, John Scarpino, Mike Duffield . Also, want to toss a thanks out to Alex Leitch for being our LED hookup, and the always supportive Creatron Inc.
Hive 2.0 Featured in ARTWINDSOR Magazine
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We received our copy of ARTWINDSOR Issue #03, which features Hive 2.0 both in print and in sound alongside other cool artists working in the realm of sound!
ARTWINDWINDSOR has recently been rebranded as Barbed Magazine – dedicated to promoting the artworks of Canadian artists living at the US-Canadian border.
Barbed Magazine is printed twice a year, in the Spring and the Winter, with each issue featuring new works, interviews, and experimental and confessional art.
Hive 2.0 Sculpture
L.E.A.P Featured on Daily Planet 7PM Jan 28, 2016
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We got great news!
Lucas from Discovery Channel‘s Daily Planet covered our project Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol and interviewed us for their Future Tech Segment!
Wanna watch? You can tune in at 7pm EST on January 28, 2016 to see it! If you subscribe to Bell, you can watch online and we’ll post a link when we get it.
Wanna play? L.E.A.P. is currently set up at Electric Perfume until February 26, 2016 and is available to be booked for parties or events! In addition we have some talks and audio recording sessions to turn your voice into a badass boss! As a finale we close with a takedown party II:XXVI:MMXVI on the final day!
Electric Perfume Laser Launch Party
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Friday October 16, 2015, 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.
Price: $8 (advance tickets)
We’re excited to invite you to join us for the first ever event at Electric Perfume – a new studio/exhibition space where immersive and interactive projects are built, play tested, and displayed with a focus on public feedback and learning. Help us launch in style!
Come join us for snacks and reception and try to beat an updated version of Hopkins Duffield’s live-action laser game, The Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol! After 9:00PM we’re putting the games on pause and reverting into a laser social, so come early if you want to play!
Laser-inspired clothing encouraged. Whether this means sexy black or glowy gadgets, arrive in whatever makes you happy!
*The Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol will be open to the general public between 5:00 and 7:00PM before…
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MK ULTRA
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Friday October 2, 2015, 8:30 p.m.
Manteuffelstraße 42, 10997 Berlin, Germany
Price €2-5
Hallo Berliners! Our Video-Music piece Drone will be screened along with other awesome Videodromers and A/V mashup masters at MK ULTRA at the Kleiner Salon in Berlin!
MK ULTRA is a one night screening, performance and exhibition of visual music and audio / video art.
The screening segment will feature works by members of the Toronto based “VIDEODROME” collective of a/v producers including Jubal Brown, Pete OHearn, Sean Marven, Daeve Fellows, Hopkins Duffield & Martin Czechowski.
This will be followed by an a/v performance by Emad Dabiri (aka SΛRIN) and feature the application of the literary cut-up technique to sampled audio / video, resulting in highly sequenced, rhythmic and synesthetic structures that will overwhelm the viewer’s senses and trigger a hypnotic and fixated state. The material being sourced is disintegrated and co-opted…
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Arduino Blog Featuring Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol!
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Zoe Romano from the Arduino Blog featured The L.E.A.P. Engine on their official blog! We’re thrilled people are so receptive to this project, however, that’s just the start, and there’s much more of The L.E.A.P. Engine to come 😉
You can read the Arduino blog’s post here.
Post-Punk Article on Videodrome’s Legacy
This fantastic article on Post-Punk by Emad Dabiri chronicles the history of Videodrome, an event in Toronto that highlights the genre of video-music. We’re even mentioned at the end 🙂
We’ve been a part of this unique community for many years and it saddens us that this will be its tenth and final year.
Friday August 21, 2015, 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen Street West, Toronto
Price $10
Videodrome 2015
Friday August 21, 2015, 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
952 Queen Street West, Toronto
Price $10
Hopkins Duffield is going to have an installation this year as a part of Videodrome at at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art on Friday August 21, 2015 at 8:00pm.
Toronto’s foremost hardcore A/V event returns for it’s 10th and final installment, the last event before the closing of the MOCCA’s Queen St location.
Live A/V performances and screenings on multiple projections and 4000 watts of sound. Video party / Party video.
The Videodrome event developed by multi-media collective FAMEFAME in 2004, evolves out of the Cronenberg concept of high intensity sex and death video signal used to bio-electrically mutate viewers, this Videodrome transforms the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art into an eye-popping, raving chaos of audio-visual media excess.
“Bridging the gaps between the sofa, the…
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Make Change Conference
Sunday July 26, 2015, 10:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Hopkins Duffield will be doing a talk for the Make Change Conference, kicking offMaker Festival 2015. We will go through our portfolio and discuss our creative objectives, technical processes, design challenges, and our relationship within the local Maker, Hacker and DIY communities who have helped us through various projects.
Excerpt fromMake Friends Monthly – “Make Change is a one day conference for professional makers, makerspace organizers, educators and enthusiasts presented by Little Dada. We are exploring the growing influence of maker culture as a force for change in Toronto. How has it changed our lives, the way we work, and our communities.” See the full list of speakers here.
Make Change is a great place to meet cool people, learn new stuff, and become part of the community!
Featured in Vice – Motherboard / Shake That Button
Our piece, Itagaki Interface was featured in Vice’s Motherboard in an article called Alternative Video Game Controllers, From Bras to Head-Mounted Pinball Machines.
However, our piece was found through this super awesome site created by Pierre Corbinais called Shake that Button, which featured us amongst other alternative video game controllers / installations. We just thought we would spread the love about this website as alternative and physical gaming experiences is becoming a focus of our creative career!
TEXT TONE Documentation!
Documentation of our project TEXT TONE at Hamilton Winterfest 2015 Kick-off Event curated by Tara Bursey entitled On The Waterfront! TEXT TONE was on display on February 7th, 2015, at Pier 8 in Hamilton!
TEXT TONE is an interactive mobile phone based sound sculpture created out of broken and obsolete telephone technology. The piece decodes text messages sent by the audience into touch-tone keypad audio compositions that are played through the sculpture and displayed graphically on a screen within the room. The sculpture contains twelve audio channels and runs off of an Arduino Uno with the GSM Shield and Max 7.
Fun Fact: The decoded text in the video says: “Hello, my name is TEXT TONE. I’m a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. Thirty-five years from now, you re-programmed me to be your protector here, in this time. Beep Beep Boop Boop Beep Beep!”
From rotaries to…
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L.E.A.P. in Make: Article!
Donald Bell from Make: did an awesome article about Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol called Relive Your Favorite Heist with this DIY Laser Dodging Game.
If you’re already making tech projects, you probably know who Make: is, but for those who don’t, Make: is an awesome publication that focuses primarily on DIY, maker, and creative hobbyist tech-based projects!
Built to Play Interview!
Hopkins Duffield was recently interviewed about our project Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol by Daniel Rosen and Arman Aghbali from the online magazine and radio show Built To Play. Built to Play is a show about games, tech culture, and interactive arts and an online magazine that collects insight and analysis on video game history, art, and the ways we play. It gives in-depth analysis of games new, old, and not-yet-released. Built To Play broadcasts on Scope 1280 AM radio station in Toronto at Monday 1 p.m EST.
We were featured alongside game designers Kieran Nolan, Sagan Yee, Alicia Contestabile, and Nadine Lessio in Built To Play’s feature on the artists involved in the Dames Making Games Killer Interface Jam, and Vector Games Art and New Media Festival 2015.
Check out the podcast Built to Play 55: Interface the Machine for the full interview!
InnerSpace Television Broadcast on Vector Festival & Post Vector Wrap Up!
Vector and the Dames Making Games Feb Fatale Fundraiser: Killer Interfaces at Bento Miso was a blast! We would like to thank everyone who came out to support the Dames initiative to send female game developers to GDC 2015, and all those who masochistically attempted to beat Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol! Our high score went to Alicia Marie, who after much determination managed to beat the game in 5.68 seconds! You can see her run here.
Additionally, we were mentioned in InnerSpace’s interview of Martin Zeilinger for Vector Game Art & New Media Festival 2015! This interview was aired across the country on Space channel on February 20, 2015 at 6 PM. The interview also had repeat airings on MTV on Monday February 23, 2015 at 6 AM, 9 AM, 12 PM and 3 PM!
More documentation of the project is coming soon, and we will be blogging about…
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Documentation of The LEAP Engine!
Just in time for the Vector Festival of Games and New Media Art / Dames Making Games “Killer Interfaces! Party + Fundraiser” on Feb 20th, of which The LEAP Engine will be a part!
Here is some documentation of The LEAP Engine from the Hamilton Supercrawl 2014, at The Factory Media Centre.
Friday, February 20, 2015, 9:00pm – Saturday, February 21, 2015, 2:00am
@ Bento Miso Collaborative Workspace, 862 Richmond Street West
LEAP Engine @ Killer Interfaces! Party + Fundraiser
Vector Festival of Games and New Media Art is teaming up with Dames Making Games (of which Daniele is a proud member) to present the Killer Interfaces Party! We’re excited to announce that The L.E.A.P Engine, our live-action laser game, is going to be at Bento Miso on February 20th for this event!
Friday, February 20, 2015, 9:00pm – Saturday, February 21, 2015, 2:00am
@ Bento Miso Collaborative Workspace, 862 Richmond Street West
This party, which is also a part of Vector Festival of Games and New Media Art, is set to show off some of the fun and innovative games created at Dames Making Games’ Feb Fatale 3: KILLERINTERFACES. Be the first to play! The event is also a fundraiser to support Dames traveling to the Game Developers Conference! Plus lasers!
Grab craft beer by the can, chow on local grub and shoot for…
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Text Tone at Hamilton Winterfest 2015
We are pleased to announce our new interactive project, Text Tone,
as part of the Hamilton Winterfest 2015 Kick-off Event curated by Tara Bursey entitled On The Waterfront! Text Tone is on display on February 7th, 2015, at Pier 8 in Hamilton! Come out and enjoy projects and events by a bunch of talented artists and coordinators!
Text Tone
Text Tone is an interactive mobile phone based sound installation that decodes text messages sent by the audience into touch-tone keypad audio compositions. In 1878 in Hamilton, Ontario, Hugh Cossart Baker, Jr. established the first commercial telephone exchange, making Hamilton the first location in the British Empire to have a publicly accessible telephone network. Prior to this, telephone networks commonly consisted of direct lines from one specific unit to another, and this development therefore allowed the populace to use a device to contact more than one…
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Callout: We Want Your Old Phones!
We’re looking for old or obsolete telecommunication tools for our upcoming project Text Tone at Hamilton Winterfest 2015 (more details about this real soon!). As part of the piece, we’re working to create a scrappy reactive techno-tombstone. If you’re in the Toronto or Hamilton area and have phone technology that you’re willing to donate, contact us! This means old phones, new phones, broken phones, working phones, land line phones, cell phones, phone chords, answering machines, pagers, beepers, rotary phones, anything you’re willing to donate to our monolith of obsolescence!
Taking apart a rotary phone!
Text Tone is an interactive mobile phone based sound installation that decodes text messages sent by the audience into touch-tone keypad audio compositions. In 1878 in Hamilton, Ontario, Hugh Cossart Baker, Jr. established the first commercial telephone exchange, making Hamilton the first location in the British Empire to have a publicly accessible telephone network. In commemoration…
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Nuts and Volts: Fok Bot
Nuts and Volts: Fok Bot
Thursday, December 18, 2014
10:00 p.m. to 2:30 a.m.
Bassline Music Bar
865 Bloor Street West, Toronto
Join us for this month’s Nuts and Volts, a wonderful array of electronic music, video, and other nonsense! We’re doing a super short set of some Hopkins Duffield video music and Hopkins Duffield remixes of some of Duffield’s old work!
Featuring:
Baalam x S/ck F/sh
Rubber Muffin
nwodtleM
i&i w/ dAeve Fellows
Hopkins Duffield
Graham Kartna
details and links to follow
$5/pwyc
Tarsier Silliness
So. I may have put my mouth on a bunch of tarsiers.
market buzz & Hopkins Duffield’s Hive (2.0)
The market revolves around conversation. Across vendors’ tables, in the lanes and at the café, the chatter builds through the morning. Are there still tomatoes? Is it possible to pickle squash? Has the kale been hit by frost? Local matters are absorbed with of local food. The latest news, gossip and commentary is picked over and exchanged, strengthening the web of relations that is community.
For market buzz this morning, overheard fragments of conversation were transcribed on panels displayed on the courtyard’s chain-link gate.
market buzz complements Hive (2.0) an interactive sound installation at NAISA, in room 252 of Artscape Wychwood Barns adjoining the market. In Hive 2.0 the two-artist collective of Hopkins Duffield pull-apart and re-mix metal, digital and electronic material and components to produce experiences that cross the boundaries of art, gaming, and collaborative performance.
Kyle Duffield and Daniele Hopkins met me for lunch this week to chat…
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Hopkins Duffield Featured on Making Waves Radio
On October 10, 2014, we were interviewed on New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA)’s Making Waves radio show, broadcasted on WGXC. In the interview, we discussed our piece Hive 2.0, which is currently being exhibited at NAISA, located in Artscape Wychwood Barns at 605 Christie Street.
This monthly program is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA). The program features selections from the NAISA archives and is produced by Darren Copeland, NAISA Artistic Director. NAISA is a Toronto-based organization that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. The objectives of NAISA are to foster awareness and understanding locally, as well as nationally and internationally, in the cultural vitality of experimental sound art in its myriad forms of expression.
You can hear the full show right here:
Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol at Toronto Nuit Blanche 2014
THE L.E.A.P. ENGINE AT TORONTO NUIT BLANCHE 2014
At Site 3 CoLaboratory for Nuit Blanche with a bunch of other cool stuff!
October 4, 2014, 7:00 pm to 7:00 am
At Site 3: Galaxy Heist The L.E.A.P. Engine, Five Magic Cubes, and Photon Gallery
Hopkins Duffield – Toronto, Canada
Kris Coward – Toronto, Canada
Site 3 coLaboratory – Toronto, Canada
Site 3 CoLaboratory is at 718 Ossington Avenue (Between Ossington Avenue and Concord Avenue, in the alley immediately south of Bloor Street West. Look for the flower mural off Ossington Avenue.)
Hive at New Adventures In Sound Art
HIVE AT NEW ADVENTURES IN SOUND ART
New Adventures In Sound Art| NAISA Space in Artscape Wychood Barns
601 Christie St #252, Toronto
Culture Days:
Saturday, September 27, 2014 | 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
Sunday, September 28, 2014 | 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Nuit Blanche 2014:
Saturday, October 4, 2014 | 7:00 PM – 7:00 AM
**Interactive sculpture also on display October 4, 2014 to November 1, 2014
(Open Fridays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm – Saturdays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm – Sundays 10:00 am to 3:00 pm)
Hive will be exhibited at NAISA from September 27th to November 1st, 2014. Aside from NAISA’s hours of operation, Hive will be on view for Toronto Culture Days, as well as Nuit Blanche 2014! We’ve done some changes to the piece for version 2.0, so come check it out!
The L.E.A.P. Engine at the Hamilton Supercrawl 2014
Our laser installation game, The Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol (or The L.E.A.P. Engine) is almost complete! With help and encouragement from Site 3 CoLaboratory, and Christopher John Thomas kindly providing technical consultation, we’re ready to go! The project is going to be running for the first time for the Hamilton Supercrawl this coming weekend at The Factory Media Centre! Furthermore, we’re running a Master Class on Supercrawl Saturday where we will bring a group of people right into the installation to talk about the process of creating and constructing The L.E.A.P. Engine.
ON DISPLAY THROUGH SUPERCRAWL WEEKEND:
Fri, Sept 12 | 7-11PM
Sat, Sept 13 | 5-10PM
Sun, Sept 14 | 12-5PM
Factory Media Centre | 228 James Street North, Hamilton
905-577-9191 | www.factorymedia.ca | info@factorymedia.ca
— MASTER CLASS – THE L.E.A.P. ENGINE —
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Laser Game Update
This is what I’ve been doing with all my time recently 🙂
We changed the concept of our Site 3 CoLaboratory artist residency laser game, Galaxy Heist, to The Laser Equipped Annihilation Protocol (or The L.E.A.P. Engine) because it’s long and badass. Thank you for your understanding.
Love,
Hopkins & Duffield
(Next displaying for the Hamilton Supercrawl at The Factory Media Centre, 228 James Street North)
September 12-14, 2014
Making Laser Pentagrams, In Your Punani
We made a 10 foot sound reactive laser pentagram for the Shit Fun presents Venetian Snares and Otto Von Schirach show at the Great Hall last Saturday!
This project had some fun little considerations. We had a limited amount of time to check out the space in advance, and we had to come up with a quick laser mounting system that did not require drilling or marking up any walls… on a tight budget. Because we didn’t have exact measurements (though our blueprint estimates were ultimately bang on anyways), this meant that some of our cabling had to be measured out in the space day-of, and therefore we were cutting and soldering wires just hours before the show! But we’d budgeted our time for this, so all was good 🙂
We ended up using cheap, safe lasers, and attaching the small metal laser mounts we made (with laser termination points…
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TCAF at Bento Miso Wrap-up
Comics artist Gillian Blekkenhorst and I had a lot of fun showcasing our Oculus Rift project, Altar, for The Toronto Comics Arts Festival – Comics vs Games 3 at Bento Miso this past weekend! With special thanks to Bento Miso for this opportunity and all of their hard work putting on Bit Bazaar. And thanks to Andrew Shenkman for writing a lovely theme song for our game. We’re looking forward to continuing development on Altar!
Some Riftin’ gameplay going on at TCAF
SHIT FUN with VENETIAN SNARES
We’re going to be doing some installation work for this wicked lineup! Super stoked.
VENETIAN SNARES
C64
bossFYTE
JUBAL BROWN
SΛRIN
nwodtleM
and from the VIDEODROME videos and installations by:
Daeve Fellows
Dona Arbabzadeh
Clint Enns
Video Samurai
Dr. Neptune
Graham Kartna
MC NTSC
Roxanne Luchak
Augart
Hopkins Duffield
+more TBA
Check out the Facebook event page for more info!
Drone Day
This coming Saturday, we’re presenting our video-music project, Drone, for the event, |||DRONE ALONE
May 10th @ May Bar
876 Dundas St. West, Toronto
BASEMENT
Doors at 8pm
$7
Check out the Facebook event page for more info!
In acknowledgement of Weird Canada’s Drone Day.
Performances by:
Lorde Awesome https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lorde-Awesome/64495112742
Cassandra Witteman http://vimeo.com/74029862#at=0
frAncIs (Cybernetics Orchestra) http://audiobeing.com/ | https://www.facebook.com/CyberneticOrchestra
Girls Alone (Jesse L. Bellon and Neil Adare) https://soundcloud.com/girls-alone
Egyptrixx pres. A/B til Infinity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWduO_6eeUo
Videos and installations by:
Jubal Brown https://www.youtube.com/user/jubalbrown
Clint Enns https://vimeo.com/clintenns
Leslie Supnet http://www.lesliesupnet.com/
Daniele Hopkins and Kyle Duffield http://hopkinsduffield.com/
Jeff Donaldson http://notendo.com/
Blake Carrington http://www.blakecarrington.com/
Martin Zeilinger http://sensordeath.tumblr.com/
Lila Fatehi http://www.lilafatehi.com/index/index.htm
Weird Canada:
http://weirdcanada.com/
Drone Day:
http://droneday.org/drone-events
Organized by Katie Micak and Laura Dobson.
Altar – an Oculus Rift Gaming Experience at TCAF 2014
More recently, I’ve been working on a project for The Toronto Comics Arts Festival – Comics vs Games 3. Henry Faber at Bento Miso put together three pairs of comics artists and game makers to produce three original 3D VR games using the Oculus Rift. So if you’re taking in TCAF this year, these games and a whole bunch of other awesome stuff will be presented at Bento Miso from May 8-10!
I’ve been working alongside comics artist Gillian Blekkenhorst to create the Oculus Rift gaming experience of Altar. Altar immerses the player in an underground ruin where they must navigate puzzling non-human relics and graphic depictions of scenes in order to unleash a strange society’s evolutionary history. Through the process of investigating these creatures’ bizarre form of multi-dimensional historical documentation, the player “chooses” the path of history that these creatures follow. The player is encouraged to explore and understand the repercussions of different historical paths through the drastic changes each choice creates within the environment around them. Andrew Shenkman also makes an appearance in the form of a sweet little theme song.
Opening Party for Comics vs Games 3D Gallery and VRcade:
Thursday, May 8th, at 7:00 pm
At Bento Miso, 862 Richmond Street West
Games on display between:
Thursday, May 8th, 2014 – Saturday, May 10th, 2014
At Bento Miso, 862 Richmond Street West
Also at Bento Miso for TCAF’s Comics vs Games 3:
Bit Bazaar and the Comics vs Games Talks
Saturday, May 10th, 2014, from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm
Laser Switch Prototype
This a video of our working laser switch prototype for our upcoming project, Galaxy Heist, which we’re making as part of our Site 3 coLaboratory Artist Residency. Our fences are essentially going to consist of a bunch of these lasers that can turn on and off. It can/will be more refined, but it works! In this demo video we have it hooked up to an Arduino Uno and Max 6 to just play a video to show that the switch is doing something. The switch consists of a dollar store laser diode and a photocell (see diagram below).
Diagram of our how laser switches work
We’re hoping to be able to write all of the laser patterns in Midi, meaning writing “code” for the levels (i.e., laser patterns that the player has to dodge) will be super easy, and potentially tweakable in real-time if need be. Additionally, we can adjust…
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Update & Site 3 Artists in Residence
We got hit by some illness and stuff, so we had a bit of downtime since our last update. The wicked news is that we were selected as Site 3 coLaboratory’s Artists in Residence! What is Site 3? Site 3 is a Toronto-based maker space that consists of awesomely creative people… many with engineering, electronic, and/or pyro-based creative projects (just to name a few). Check ’em out at site3.ca
So what are we doing for them? Well, we’ve been preparing to combine our love for media and installation, with our love for gaming and 80’s B movie Sci-Fi, to create a live-action gaming environment entitled, Galaxy Heist. We figure a lot of developers (and one of our past projects) are focusing on making your body a controller for virtual realms (which is fun and awesome!..but…), so why don’t we just turn the entire bloody environment into a…
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No Jam 2: VideoVideo
Next weekend I’ll be participating in No Jam 2: VideoVideo, presented by OCAD U and Dames making Games – a time-limited weekend-long collaborative jam with the goal of producing multi-screen experimental full-motion video games. For the purposes of this jam, well be using either a tablet or phone touchscreen and a larger non-touch screen. Really looking forward to playing around with this setup!
Experimental Media 2013: Cyber In Securities
Cyber In Securities
Video Screenings:
September 12, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
The Philips Collection
1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC, USA.
September 23, 2013, 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m
Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street NW, Washington, DC, USA.
Washington Project for the Arts presents Experimental Media 2013: Cyber In Securities. This exhibit will explore security, privacy, and surveillance in the digital age, through a gallery exhibition, video screening series, and panel discussion. Kyle Duffield’s and my video-music piece, Drone, will be be screened at The Philips Collection on September 12, 2013. It will also be screened at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on September 23, 2013.
Junicorn Game-Making
Through Dames Making Games, last month I made my first game! Spy Jammer is a three dimensional internet spatialization created through Unity. The player navigates this world as a garbage-like amalgamation of pixels by sneaking past watchful internet entities under the guise of Viagara ads and internet memes.
While the game is definitely in a presentable state, I’d really like to clean it up a little more! I plan on throwing it out into the internet soon though.
For now, here are some screenshots of the game, including a spam-filled sendimentous mail room cave and a social media masquerade.
Oculus/Indiecade VR Jam
I’m participating in the Oculus/Indiecade VR Jam this month through Bento Miso! Really looking forward to working with some awesome people and playing around with the Oculus Rift.
Taming Lumens
Taming Lumens
9:00 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.
uptrack/downtrack
1409A Bloor Street West, Toronto
PWYC ($5 Suggested)
This story begins with Kyle’s interactive light-sound installation, Trace, being selected to be a part of this year’s art portion of NXNE. It was fun: we filled Hashtag Gallery with fog and everyone got a chance to create and control conical light sculptures out of solid beams of light. Unfortunately, in the haziness of the environment someone snagged Kyle’s borrowed DSLR camera (with its lenses) when he put it down to give a demonstration of the piece. We lost all of the documentation of the event, so the fine folks at the new space uptrack/downtrack and some friends figured instead of wallowing in the loss, we’ll just create an evening of new memories instead.
The event will feature Kyle’s piece Trace, our collaborative piece Hive, as well as reactive projections by…
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Documentation of Hive
Hive is a multichannel speaker sculpture combining found and fabricated parts to create a pulsating spatial sound composition. Exploring convergences between technology and nature, Hive employs regurgitative paper wasp architectures with technological parts and scraps to create an empty sculptural entity that replaces insects with sound, creating the experience of an organismic instrument-speaker hybrid.
The piece is comprised of 7 channels distributed over 50 speakers. Each channel plays a unique audio rhythm which converge into a throbbing drone when perceived from a distance.
This piece was on exhibition for The Noise Project Exhibition at 99 Sudbury, Toronto, Canada on July 26 -27, 2013.
Super Thanks to the following for making this project possible:
Laura Mendes and John Loerchner, 99 Sudbury, Dan Hines & Active Surplus, Barbara Hopkins, Steve Hopkins, John Scarpino, Dan Scarpino, John Duffield and Urbane Cyclist, Long & McQuade and all the other amazing artists whom we exhibited…
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Hive Exhibition Details!
THE NOISE PROJECT EXHIBITION
Opening Reception: Friday July 26th, 4:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Viewing: Saturday July 27th, 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m.
99 Sudbury
99 Sudbury Street, Toronto
For this exhibition, Kyle Duffield and Daniele Hopkins are combining forces to create Hive, a multichannel sculptural hive of speakers using found and fabricated parts, which will have a pulsating, droning, but changing sound composition, creating the experience of an organism/instrument/speaker hybrid.
In relation to this project, Kyle Duffield is part of The Nomadic Noise Residency, which consists of a super cool multidisciplinary crew of people that are combining together to create artistic projects inspired by noise. Exhibited work will be in the form of site specific installations, performances, sound based works, web-projects, apps, interventions, research papers, etc. The residency itself consists of group experiences such as urban sound adventures, social interventions, workshops and discussions for the purpose of creating…
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Introducing Hive
Hive will be exhibited at 99 Gallery from July 26-28th.
Exploring convergences between technology and nature, Hive employs regurgitative paper wasp architectures with technological parts and scraps to create an empty sculptural entity that replaces insects with sound in relation to a participant’s proximity.
In association with Kyle’s participation in Nomadic Noise Residency (which consists of various artists creating sound-inspired work for an awesome show in late July), the two of us are collaborating on a sound sculpture. Currently called Hive, this project is essentially an interactive multichannel speaker sculpture. Things are subject to change as we develop the project, but this is how it’s all looking:
Stay tuned for process and development posts!
Drone
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Hopkins and Duffield’s Drone uses documentary source footage about unmanned aerial vehicles alongside footage of insects capable of swarm intelligence to outline the looming parallels between the quiet, yet efficient and often uncomfortable presence of each. Using these two primary video sources, Drone is created through a subtle additive layering of video-music styled editing where the sound matches the visuals cut for cut, what you see is what you hear.
Presented at Videodrome 2013 at the MOCCA, Toronto, Canada.
Thoughts on Audio-Video Editing Software + Videodrome Timeline
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Here’s our Premiere Pro CS6 A/V timeline from our video-music piece for Videodrome 2013, minus a handful of nested tracks. This is our first project since we made the switch from Final Cut 7 to Premiere, which was simultaneously a pleasing and infuriating experience.
We made the switch because we preferred the option of working on both Mac and PC, and FCPX is pretty good (once you get use to it) — but has a bit of a ways to go and doesn’t seem like it would be the most suited for the video-music style of editing. That being said, Premiere is also is pretty good, but also has a ways to go. The more efficient rendering over FCP7 resulted in less caffeine breaks, and Premiere’s adjustment layer tracks are an awesome feature because they allow you to manipulate multiple tracks at once. However, importing projects from one computer to…
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Daniele is a Junicorn!
Through the month of June, I will be participating in Dames Making Games‘ month-long game incubator program, Junicorn, hosted by Bento Miso!
VIDEODROME 2013
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It’s that time of the year again! We’ve been slicing clips, burning our retinas, and over-driving our eardrums for the video battle!
Come out and enjoy a night of noisy and danceable video mashups!
Videodrome 2013 Facebook Event Page!
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art presents:
VIDEODROME
Audio/Visual Overdose & Video Battle
Friday, June 7, 2013 – 8:00pm until 1:00am
952 Queen St W, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1G8
–Video Battle—
bossFYTE
PETE OHEARN
ISTVAN KANTOR
DAEVE FELLOWS
CRAZY GNOME
CONTORT
BAD CREDIT
TALIXZEN
VIDEO SAMURAI
DAVID MATTON
DR. NEPTUNE
SMEARBALLS
HOPKINS DUFFIELD
–Live A/V—
ϟ†Nϟ & SΛRIN
OUANANICHE
SKEETER
NWODTELM
AUGART
JUBAL BROWN
–Installations—
MANDELBRUT
ROXANNE LUCHAK
KYLE DUFFIELD
Cicadas!
I will one day soon reveal an ongoing project involving cicadas and cicada evuviae! All just in time for the most exciting 17-year Magicicada Brood II emergence.
For now, here is a picture of a small part of my collection/materials:
Confirmed for Videodrome 2013!
Hopkins Duffield is going to have a video-music piece again this year at Videodrome 2013 – Audio/Visual Overdose & Video Battle at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto on Friday, June 7th, 2013 at 8:00pm. Check out the Facebook event page!.
Stay tuned for more details!
Daniele Hopkins 