http://blog.glocal.ca Glocal (global + local) is an immense, collaborative and multifaceted digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of images in the 21st century. Working out of the Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab, the artists behind Glocal pose questions about the nature of photography at this point in our history: What is a photograph? What is a camera? What is a photographer? Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:38:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please join us in the techlab for one last hurrah!! Launch event and reception for the artists is from 2pm  to 4pm,  Saturday, 24th January 2009 at Surrey Art Gallery,  13750 88th ave. Surrey. The digital revolution has included the global proliferation of millions  of image-taking devices (such as digital cameras, video recorders, ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2009/01/15/final-techlab-reception-january-24-2009/ New Glocal Camera Hack kits have been developed. Much like the originals, these kits are Arduino based camera triggers, but the mark 2 hack kit now contains an accelerometer and a light sensor to increase the possibilities of your photographic experiments. The camera can now be activated by a sudden ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/12/23/camera-hack-mkii-light-and-motion-trigger/ Photochallenge #8: Found Text and the Urban Life Ends: Friday, December 12, 2008 Brief: Find words or text that appeal to you anywhere in your environment. Wait for "something interesting" to happen, with pedestrians, with light, with framing, with angles! Anything creative that strikes you. Instructions: Tag your photo with “glocalproject” and “photochallenge8″ ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/12/04/photo-challenge-8-found-text-and-the-urban-life/ Glocal Project: Interactive Table Prototype from Glocal Project on Vimeo. http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/11/28/video-glocal-interactive-table-prototype/ New versions of the Glocal Motion Sequence App, Multiple Exposure App and Long Exposure App have been released.  These updates fix a few issues when running the apps on Macs.  New features include an improved interface for loading and working with video files, as well as a built-in image browser ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/11/28/glocal-software-toolkits-updated/ The Glocal Project is a massive contributive artwork. Two months before the launch of the project, we already have upwards of 8,000 submissions from more than 2,000 participants around the world. One of the most challenging questions has been: how can we make sense of such a large collection of ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/11/13/from-the-techlab-breeding-images/ At last night's artist talk at the Surrey Art Gallery, I presented a general overview of software-based art, and looked in detail at some of the projects that I have created over the last few years. Here is a reference list for those of you who attended and would like ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/10/29/growthevolutionemergence-links-and-follow-up/ Photo Challenge #7: Not Quite Right Ends: Friday, November 14th, 2008 Brief: Using any photographic technique, create an image that is somehow 'not quite right'. Instructions: Tag your photo with “glocalproject” and “photochallenge7″ and add it to our flickr pool. Need help? Email us. With halowe'en fast approaching, we thought we'd take the opportunity to ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/10/27/photo-challenge-7-not-quite-right/ Dear Glocal Participants (well, those of you nearby), This October 18th is your chance to finally see the fruits of your labour! The Surrey Art Gallery Techlab is hosting an afternoon open-house from 1-5pm to show you some of the achievements of the Glocal Project!! As you know, the Glocal artist team has ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/10/14/glocal-prototype-exhibition-launch/ We spent an afternoon earlier this week building up our database so that we can more easily explore the tagspace and understand how people are describing their images. Once that was done, we were able to create some visualizations in Processing which would help us look at this huge amount ... http://blog.glocal.ca/2008/10/09/from-the-techlab-glocal-pool-tagspace-visualizations/