Installation

AWS came to Hard Work Party with a loose brief wanting to tell a story involving both sustainability and their new generative AI tools for their Sustainability Showcase at the 2023 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.

Vinyl enthusiast and media artist Jay Borgwardt has taken his love for analog music to the next level with the creation of the Vinyl Music Station.

"Don't shoot for the stars, we already know what's there. Shoot for the space in between because that's where the real mystery lies." (Vera Rubin, astronomer).   DARK MATTER "The space in between" is an audiovisual project inspired by the Dark Matter theory studied by astronomer Vera Rubin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPMSUUKUDSA     Bridging the realms of sound, live performance and literature, I've created a system in TouchDesigner that transforms real-time audio data into unique AI generated poetry being recited, also in real-time.

A series of tutorials diving into a very large project (over 6000 operators), in which TouchDesigner is used to create a first-person game-like experience for installation and performance contexts. Part 7 shows how to solve problems with absTime.seconds that arise in a long-term installation.