Monkey Business
Author: Randy Miller
An interactive installation by Ralph Kistler & Jan M. Sieber. NEW FACES AWARD 2011, 15th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL MONKEY BUSINESS BONUS TRACK: www.youtube.com “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 www.subtours.com MONKEY BUSINESS BONUS: www.youtube.com
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Fantastic, well done, very well made this.
Heinie van os Holland
Amazing job. Music, Art, Arduino, servos, graphics, stop action, Kinects, open source. Oh, and cardboard too. Riveting. Thanks.
You mean youtube.com/watch?v=G3TNa2pKU5g
Thank You – The music is can be sad and yet compelling.
more infos about the music now in our bonus track at youtube.com/watch?v=G3TNa2pKU5g
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.
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Do you need more monkey business sound? Groove your ape out with some monkey business bonus!
Nope.
Please give us some more days with the music question, ok? It´s worth waiting
hehe… that´s not a serious question, isn´t it?
How do you move the tail on the video?
What’s the name of the song?
WARNING: stuffed monkeys were harmed in the making of this video…
Lol anyone else here from StumbleUpon?
I actually didnt care about how it worked I just wanted to watch it dance more :3
D: I’m calling PETA!
music made me watch the video a few times…
you have killed the monkey to make it a robot :<
haha monkey scratch at 7:49
this is supposed to be on vimeo
Very well made. Great video editing to show a project. Really makes the project.
Great video, does anybody know is the music from the video available anywhere?
The music really makes this
cool monkey, cool video