Ben Glover – a recent graduate from BSc Creative Computing (2014) has been featured in the Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network.
During his time at Goldsmiths he developed a project to discover ways of using experimental software and hardware to generate interactive visualisations that are controlled by body movements. Dancers and choreographers were able to use this technology during the development and performance of a dance piece.
Working in collaboration with a dance student, ‘Interactive Technology in Dance’ was built using motion sensing gaming device, Microsoft Kinect, and open source C++ toolkit, OpenFrameworks. The software built by OpenFrameworks produced mathematically-generated images that could be controlled by body movements and gestures using the depth camera technology behind Kinect. The images in turn could be projected onto a screen for multiple uses in a studio or stage.
He is currently working as a freelance web designer with IntrAktion and is about to commence an MA in Digital Theatre at Wimbledon University.
- Read the full article here.
- Find out about the BSc Creative Computing course at Goldsmiths here.
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