Monkey Business

An interactive installation by Ralph Kistler & Jan M. Sieber.
NEW FACES AWARD 2011, 15th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL
MONKEY BUSINESS BONUS TRACK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3TNa2pKU5g

"Monkey Business" is an interactive installation where a cuddly toy monkey hangs on the wall like a Jumping Jack and apes the gestures of the user.
The system consists of a tracking camera sensor (Microsoft XBox Kinect) on top of the toy monkey for tracking the visitor's movements, a hidden computer to analyze and convert the tracking data (OpenNI Framework, osceleton, OSC), a programming patch (Processing) to process the data into movement angles and send it to a microcontroller board (Arduino) inside the toy's body, which controls ten servo motors attached to a metal sceleton and in this way moves the ape's arms, legs, head and body. The flexible suspension of the ape in combination with fast responding motors allow an astonishing quick-witted behavior and a tempting interaction experience for the user.
All technical devices are covered in order to facilitate a direct communication between the visitor and the soft toy.
The work reflects in a playful way the problem of real natural interaction and states an ironic comment about the present art business through this iconic monkey figure.

A project by Ralph Kistler & Jan M. Sieber. Film: Susann Maria Hempel.
Documentary Production: www.interactions.cc

For more information please visit http://www.subtours.com/cms/node/76

MONKEY BUSINESS BONUS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3TNa2pKU5g

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• interactive installation
• ape
• monkey
• physical computing
• gesture tracking
• kinect
• arduino
• processing
• openNI
• osceleton
• cuddly
• toy
• dance
• electronic art
• robot
• computer
• gadget
• technology documentary

[Theolos88]

Great video, does anybody know is the music from the video available anywhere?

[subtours]

@Theolos88 more infos about the music now in our bonus track at youtube.com/watch?v=G3TNa2pKU5­g

[autoquick]

The music really makes this

[subtours]

@autoquick If you want to know more about the music, you can watch now our bonus track at youtube.com/watch?v=G3TNa2pKU5­g­. You can find the complete link also in our description above.

[thaihustler]

hackaday

[jorgefried]

@subtours you got it?

[heinievanos]

Fantastic, well done, very well made this.

Heinie van os Holland

[DavidCousins]

Amazing job. Music, Art, Arduino, servos, graphics, stop action, Kinects, open source. Oh, and cardboard too. Riveting. Thanks.

[autoquick]

You mean youtube.com/watch?v=G3TNa2pKU5­g

Thank You - The music is can be sad and yet compelling.

[subtours]

@sajansunset v=G3TNa2pKU5g

[sajansunset]

@subtours Do you need more monkey business sound? Groove your ape out with some monkey business bonus!

[lonkerodemoni]

@subtours Nope. ;)

[subtours]

@jorgefried Please give us some more days with the music question, ok? It´s worth waiting :)