We’ve been hard at work here in the Techlab on the newest Glocal Toolkit. This one is fairly simple – it allows users with a webcam to create multiple-exposure compositions quickly and easily. Like all of our toolkits, the final release will include instructions, educator resources, and the complete source code for all of you code-heads out there. The app should be released shortly – until then, here are a couple of test images from the app, created here at the Gallery:

We are happy to announce that our first Glocal Toolkit is available for download. This software toolkit allows you to create motion sequences from a webcam feed. The Toolkit includes the Motion Sequence Application for Mac, Windows, and Linux platforms and instructions for use. Also included is a worksheet for educators titled ‘Looking at Events in Time”, which looks at the various ways time and events can and have been represented in art. 

Over the next few days, I will be posting some tips and tricks that you can try with the application, and will provide instructions for uploading your contributions to our Flickr pool. The next version of this Glocal toolkit allows for import of pre-recorded video. It is currently being tested, and will be released sometime next week. Stay tuned!



Download the Motion Sequence Application

Throughout the course of the Glocal project, we will be developing and distributing toolkits which will allow artists of all levels to contribute to our content base. Software, hardware, and conceptual toolkits will be available on our website for download as they are completed.

The first software toolkit facilitates creation of the motion sequence grids that we have been posting here and in our Flickr and Facebook groups. Built in Processing, the Motion Sequence Toolkit creates grids from either live webcam input, or from pre-recorded video. In both cases, the application offers a different perspective on motion by separating it into still frames. Here is screenshot of the interface, in standard grid mode: