Alias

Interactive Urinal.

Administrator — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:15:26 +0000

Ric Carvalho and I made this for Kinetica Art Fair 2010.

It’s an interactive urinal.

~~To my knowledge, it’s the first working urine-drive user interface to date.~~ Thanks to Chris O’Shea for discovering prior art.

Check it out.

Defictionalisation

Alias — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:31:21 +0000

I’ve been doing some directing work in conjunction with the FX Channel endorsed True Blood night Fangtasia London. Check it out.

Modelling the PeeVector

Alias — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:22:47 +0000

Lately, I’ve been working with artist Ric Carvalho on an interesting collaborative project, which we’re exhibiting at the Kinetica Art Fair 2010.

It’s entitled “Global Warming”, and involves urination, OpenGL, and Java. More info to come soon.

Mindshare Brandmark Animation

Administrator — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:08:09 +0000

In November 2008, I worked with Moving Brands to create an animated brand mark for global media and marketing services company MindShare Worldwide.

The work involved creating various different animated versions of the brand mark created by Moving Brands, for deployment across various media. I also produced a screensaver which showcases the new branding.

Atomico Data Circles

Administrator — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:13:33 +0000

In september 2009, Albion London approached me to create a series of generative artworks for their client, Atomico Ventures.

The brief was to create a generative system which would take data from a client project (such as company share price, number subscribers, temperature in office – anything they could think to provide, really) and create an artwork which would contain a visual representation of that data.

Working with their design team, I created four different pieces, which take arbitrary feed data and incorporate it into a moving artwork. Additionally, each user can select which data/artwork combination they see by using the control panel on the top right.

The lie is the mortal enemy of the state

Alias — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:43:19 +0000

This thursday we’re having a screening of the last year’s worth of video work. It’s entitled “The lie is the mortal enemy of the state” and it generally explores propoganda, nationalism, democracy, war and famine in a dystopian setting. If you’re in Shoreditch this Thursday evening, come check us out.

Cinema Free Kunsthaus: The lie is the mortal enemy of the state

A retrospective screening of transmissions from the Ministry of Perpetual War, including classics such as “Weapons Not Food”, “We Leave at Dawn” and “Freedom Day”. In addition, there will be a screening of lost footage, outtakes, and previously unseen material Additional DJ sets throughout the night by Chris Damage and special guests.

Admission free.

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Pokercoder

Alias — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:46:35 +0000

So I’ve been alerted to the ridiculously cool Pokercoder event by my old pal Sean McSharry. Despite being probably the worst poker player on the planet, and having sworn never to play again after a high profile and humiliating defeat at Flash on the beach last year* I’m pretty tempted to go along. In fact, I’m definitely going along.

Apparently, it’s free entry, free booze, and really, really awesome prizes! Plus free tuition if you’re not sure of how to play (it’s Texas hold-em rules).

Check it out:

In order of finishing position, these are the prizes:

1. iMac 24” 2.8GHz (plus cab fare home)
2. MacBook 13” 2.1GHz (plus cab fare home)
3. Sony Playstation 3 (plus cab fare home)
4. iPod Touch 16GB
5. Nintendo Wii
6. Nintendo Wii
7. iPod Nano 4GB
8. iPod Nano 4GB
9. iPod Nano 4GB
10. iPod Nano 4GB

PLUS £20 free bet on Betfair for those players finishing in places 11-20.

Gift / goodie bags will be handed out also. At this point we don’t have the final details on what will be in them or how many of you will get them. Check back later on to find out.

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*Last time I played poker was at Flash on the Beach 2007, at a table with Sean, Nicolas Canasse and Joshua Davis – I managed to lose horribly in front of some of the people I most respect and admire
… still, makes a good pub story, I guess.

Slaughterhaus Five : Freedom Day

Alias — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:03:22 +0000

So, I’ve been doing a lot of work on the directing side of things lately.

This is my latest commercial:

Slaughterhaus Five: Freedom Day

Director: Alias Cummins
Editor: Lydia Morgan (Bonehouse Productions)

Working on my reel…

Alias — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:53:29 +0000

So, this is my latest directing project. It’s entitled “WE LEAVE AT DAWN”.
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Essentially, it’s an unrequested music video – for (no surprise) Laibach. We shot it in 3 days, on a budget of around 500 quid. For a laugh.

Check it out.

Flash Arduino workshop

Alias — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:13:48 +0000

This is a video from the Flash / Arduino workshop I led for tinker.it last month. This is me demoing my flash based RFID reader – the hardware drivers are all written in flash, and should be totally platform independent. I really like the idea of writing hardware drivers in Flash, and it’s something I plan on exploring further over the coming months. Obviously there are limitations as to what can realistically be achieved, but I think it’s a lot more satisfying to be able to, say, interface directly with a wiimote via a hardware connection and a serial port than using something like glovePIE. Also, it opens up all kinds of new creative areas which were previously the domain of the hardcore assembly level coder.

Anyway, here’s the video. Basically, flash is controlling the hardware, then reading back the 4 byte unique ID of the standard, publicly available Oyster card, and rendering it as a colour and rotation value. I think this has a lot of potential for further development and will be working on other ways to do cool stuff with this technology.