Project Overview

Trigger Shift

Project Info

Project Values

Trigger Shift will explore the potential for consumer technology to be re-appropriated as an open and creative tool. The project is concerned with using consumer technology for creating rather than just consuming. It intends to develop open, free and accessible platforms for artistic creation with audio, video and movement. It will build a collaborative artistic team from leaders in the fields of interactive and digital media. We will then work with young people to develop creative and open-source systems for Microsoft Kinect technology, allowing us to create gestural and fundamentally accessible tools for the
creation of audio and video art in real time, by the young people to whom this technology is completely native.

We propose that using technologies such as Kinect, we can develop creative interfaces that are open, widely accessible and completely intuitive to use, through gesture and movement.


Project Aims

The idea aims to develop an open source system for use with Kinect technology, that the young people involved can use intuitively to create and perform, generating audio and video alongside their movement. The project aims to provide a genuinely creative use for the games consoles that huge numbers of teenagers already own.

We will achieve these aims by convening a diverse and technologically active group of young people, and working with some of the best, most innovative artists, designers and programmers in this area.

 

Video and audio production are traditionally computer intensive, requiring expensive, high spec equipment and a good deal of complex training to be used effectively. I propose that using technologies such as Kinect, we can develop creative interfaces that are open, widely accessible and completely intuitive to use, through gesture and movement.

Examples of previous innovations can be
seen here http://vimeo.com/17978808 and http://www.vimeo.com/20745353.


The project would be led by the young people involved, meaning they are, fundamentally, the development and testing teams for the creative outputs.

Relevant experts and facilitators  in this field include Jamie Allen, Chris O'Shea, Mehmet Akten, Joe Scully, Jamie Kirk, Stu Childs, Dave Lynch and Kitchen Budapest, while the project will be produced and managed by me.