DevArt - Winner Announced
By Emma
Turpin, DevArt Lead at Google Creative Lab and Paul Kinlan, Developer
Advocate
Mapping a
dream as
it navigates through your brain using G+APIs. Exploring
metamorphosis through storytelling in the form of a
poetic adventure with Chrome Apps and Compute API. Travelling through a
playful giant
map that explores fantasy and reality on a huge scale using Map API. Creating music
through the touch of your finger on a simple piece of
wood using Android.
These are just a sample of the hundreds of projects we received
after
inviting the developer community to express themselves creatively as part of
DevArt. We were looking for a unique idea
which mixes art and code and pushes the boundaries, to be featured in the
Barbican's Digital
Revolution exhibition, opening this summer in London and from there touring the rest
of the world.
And the winner is … a duo
Cyril Diagne & Béatrice
Lartigue from France. Cyril and Beatrice’s project, Les métamorphoses de Mr. Kalia,
is an interactive poetic adventure around the theme of metamorphosis in the human body. It
invites gallery visitors to personify Mr. Kalia as he goes through many surrealistic changes
[
video] [
project page on DevArt site]. The piece conveys
feelings related to change, evolution and adaptation. Mr. Kalia is brought to life through the
use of a skeleton tracking technology, and uses Chrome apps and Google Compute Engine.
Cyril and Béatrice’s installation will sit alongside
three of the world’s
finest interactive artists who are also creating installations for DevArt: Karsten
Schmidt, Zach Lieberman, and the duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet. The Digital Revolution
Exhibition will be opening in London on 3 July
with tickets
available online here.
We were overwhelmed by all of the amazing ideas we saw, a testament to the creativity that’s
possible with code. Watch this space - DevArt at the Digital Revolution exhibition at the
Barbican opens in July!
Paul Kinlan is a Developer
Advocate in the UK on the Chrome team specialising on mobile. He lives in Liverpool and loves
trying to progress the city's tech community from places like DoES Liverpool
hack-space.
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