Open Sharing at YCAM
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] has made the achievements of several past projects open share to the public. This document contains a summary of such projects.
2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon (2015)
Consent Form for 2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon (2015)
Consent Form for Open Sharing of “games” made in “Think Things” (2015)
Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM) (2013-2015)
Consent Form for Open Sharing of Achievements in YCAM Summer School (2013)
Guest Research Project vol.2 (2012)
How to Make the EyeWriter 2.0 (2012)
Guest Research Project vol.1 (2011)
Choreography filmed: 5days of movement (2011)
2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon (2015)
This camp style workshop aims at the implementation of new sports, including methods of creating and enjoying them.
Around the core concept of “developlay”, an expression coined to refer to a combination of “development” and “play” at the same time, participants work out new types of athletic meetings and events with both brains and bodies in top gear. The first day’s program focuses on the development of various tools both analogue and digital, which participants use to devise rules and formats of events on day two. On the third and final day, Yamaguchi citizens and others visitors from the general public are invited to experience the ”new Yamaguchi sports festival” developed during previous two days.
Documents of new sports made at “2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon” were open shared to the public. (Application of “Consent Form for 2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon”)
Participants create new “games” and record it in “ASOLOG” in the venue. ASOLOG made by participants was open shared to the public with the aim of creating new “games” with “games” registered with ASOLOG previously. (Application of “Consent Form for Open Sharing of ‘games’ made in ‘Think Things’”)
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License / Tool |
| Documents of Created Sports | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
Website
Use Case
Open Sharing of Achievements by Participants
2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon / Yamaguchi Future Sports Day (Japanese)
| Achievement | Number of items recorded / published |
| Documents of Created Sports | 10 (all new created sports) |
Consent Form for 2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon (2015)
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License / Tool |
| Consent Form | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
Website
Consent Form for 2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon(Japanese)
Use Case
2015 YCAM Sports Hackathon / Yamaguchi Future Sports Day (Japanese)
Think Things ― An ecosystem of “things” and “games” (2015)
In 2015, YCAM hosted “Think Things ― An ecosystem of ‘things’ and ‘games’,” a participatory exhibition focusing on the driving force of games to generate new occasions for learning and creation. The “Think Things” exhibition was conceived as an “open platform for creation and experimentation” and is based on a system that integrates the visitor into the cycle of research and development at YCAM. The exhibition focuses on the relationship between “playing games,” which is one of the most primordial and creative human activities, and the “things” that inspire these actions. In several events and workshops during the exhibition period, visitors have the opportunity to generate together an ecosystem of fluidly circulating game ideas passed on from one person to another.
Participants create new “games” and record it in “ASOLOG” in the venue. ASOLOG made by participants was open shared to the public with the aim of creating new “games” with “games” registered with ASOLOG previously. (Application of “Consent Form for Open Sharing of ‘games’ made in ‘Think Things’”)
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License / Tool |
| ASOLOG (record of “games”) | CC0 |
Website
Think Things ― An ecosystem of “things” and “games”
Use Case
Open Sharing of Achievements by Participants
| Achievement | Number of items recorded / published |
| ASOLOG (record of “games”) | 730 (2015/10/10) |
There are some cases that new “games” are considered to be created with “games” registered with ASOLOG previously.
Consent Form for Open Sharing of “games” made in “Think Things” (2015)
In 2015, YCAM hosted “Think Things ― An ecosystem of ‘things’ and ‘games’,” a participatory exhibition focusing on the driving force of games that generate new opportunities for learning and creation. Participants create new “games” and record it in “ASOLOG” in the venue. ASOLOG made by participants was open shared to the public with the participants’ consent. It aims to create new “games” with “games” registered with ASOLOG previously.
This consent form was created and applied in order to open share “ASOLOG” based on CC0 or Creative Commons License to create further deriving and development of “games.” The form itself is also open to the public and, therefore, may be used by other hosts, too.
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License / Tool |
| Consent Form | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
Website
Consent Form for Open Sharing of “games” made in “Think Things” (Japanese)
Use Case
Think Things ― An ecosystem of “things” and “games”
Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM) (2013-2015)
RAM considers dancers as agents that develop an abundant imagination of movements based on information they actively gather from their environments, rather than simply repeating movements predetermined by a choreographer. The aim of this project is to provide dancers with a reactive device for activating their perceptions and thoughts. The “MOTIONER” and “RAM Dance Toolkit”, a low-cost inertial motion capture system and a C++ based toolkit for generating creative dance environments respectively, which were developed in the project, were subsequently open shared. Several outside experts participated in the project based on a contract using the GRP Contract Form.
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Software | Apache License 2.0, GPL |
| Hardware | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
Website
Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM)
Forest Symphony (2013)
Following the Great Tohoku Earthquake, Ryuichi Sakamoto conceived an art project in which he would compose music based on the bioelectric data of trees, with the aim to direct our attention to trees and forests as supporting pillars of human living environments. With the further involvement of the YCAM InterLab team, the project eventually developed into the installation and web contents that are presented as “Forest Symphony”.
For this project, the members of YCAM InterLab developed an Arduino-based amplifier shield for measuring the bioelectric potential of trees and software for it, subsequently open shared them together with the data which is measured for a year of the duration of the project with them. At the same time, the complete amplifier shield was sold as a basic shield set and also a set consisting of an Arduino and the shield.
Achievement and License
| Development Results | Development Results | License / Tool |
| Hardware | Drawing of Dubstrate(pdf) | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
| Drawing of Dubstrate(Gerber Format File) | Creative Commons License BY-SA | |
| Parts List | Creative Commons License BY-SA | |
| Software *1 | Software to control Hardware(Arduino Sketch) | Apache License 2.0 |
| Software to handle Biometric Data(Sample code for oF・Processing) | Apache License 2.0 | |
| Biometric Data | Biometric Data from trees | CC0 |
*1 Sound generation software used in the work is not made open to the public.
Website
FOREST SYMPHONY Forest Symphony ｜ YCAM InterLab
Use Case
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Shingo Sasahara
Tele-Flow
「マテリアライジング展Ⅱ」が始まりました。
YCAM Summer School (2013)
In 2013, YCAM hosted the In 2013, YCAM hosted the “YCAM Summer School” series of workshops, focusing on media technology and personal fabrication, which were open to all citizens. Achievements made by the YCAM Summer School participants were open shared with the participants’ consent. (Application of “Consent Form regarding Open Sharing of Achievements of YCAM Summer School”)
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Movie, Graphic, Drawing, 3D Modeling Data, Modulobe Data | Creative Commons License (depends) |
| Software | Apache License 2.0 (depends) |
Website
Use Case
Open Publication of Achievements by Participants
| Workshop | Number of items published | With Creative Commons License |
| Movie Creation | 8 (Youtube) | 7 |
| Sound Creation | 4 (Sound Cloud) | 2 |
| Modulobe | 51 (Modulobe) | 51 |
Consent Form for Open Sharing of Achievements in YCAM Summer School (2013)
In 2013, YCAM hosted the ”YCAM Summer School” series of workshops, focusing on media technology and personal fabrication, which were open to all citizens. This consent form was created and applied in order to enable the workshop host to open share the achievements created by participants in the workshops based on the Creative Commons License. The form itself is again open shared and, therefore, may be also used by other workshop hosts.
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Consent Form | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
Website
Consent Form for Open Sharing of Achievements in YCAM Summer School (Japanese)
Use Case
GRP Contract Form (2013)
The GRP Contract Form is a contract form created with the aim of defining creative, open-collaboration frameworks with open sharing of achievements. The form was made freely available based on the intention of establishing environments comparable to so-called “open-source codes,” allowing a broad audience to use, modify, and/or create derivative works.
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Contract Form for Joint Research and Development, Publication | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
Website
Use Case
Guest Research Project vol.2 – Composition tools for Generative Media
Reactor for Awareness in Motion (RAM)
Guest Research Project vol.2 (2012)
The Guest Research Project is a residency program offering specially invited engineers and researchers with expertise in cutting-edge fields opportunities to perform research and development related to media technology together with YCAM InterLab. For the “Guest Research Project vol. 2 – Composition Tools for Generative Media,” YCAM invited James George. The achievements of this collaboration, “ofxTimeline,” an openFrameworks add-on for arranging various types of data on a timeline, and “Duration,” an operable standalone application based on ofxTimeline, were open shared. The contract with James George was based on the concurrently developed the “GRP Contract Form.”
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Software | Apache License 2.0 |
Website
Guest Research Project vol.2 – Composition tools for Generative Media ofxTimeline [openFrameworks] Duration – OpenFrameworks Timeline for Creative Code
Use Case
Blaus by Playmodes (PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2013 HONORARY MENTION) Laser beams, light and sound installation | VAD Festival | Girona | 2012
BlueBeams by Playmodes Laser and sound installation | VI Bienal de Arte | Lanzarote | 2012
マザー牧場
マザー牧場イルミネーション2012「キラキラウィンターファーム」(youtube) In 2012-13, “Duration” was used in the “Kirakira Winter Farm” illumination event at Mother Farm, Chiba. “Beyond Interaction [2nd edition]” (Atsushi Tadokoro, Akiko Saito / BNN Shinsha / 2013) pp.226 (“Large numbers of DMX-controlled LED devices” [Hiroyuki Hori, Satoshi Horii] refers to the use of “Duration” at the ”Kirakira Winter Farm”.)
Magic Robot #003
How to Make the EyeWriter 2.0 (2012)
The EyeWriter 2.0 is an open-source eye-tracking system for detecting movements of the human eye and resulting changes in the direction of view, developed with the involvement of a member of YCAM InterLab. In 2011, two exhibitions themed around this technology were held at YCAM. A Japanese-language online manual for The EyeWriter 2.0, produced as part of YCAM’s educational program, was open shared.
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Document | Creative Commons License BY-SA |
Website
EyeWriter 2.0 のつくりかた(Japanese)
Guest Research Project vol.1 (2011)
mapamok
Music: “Mass” by Vaetxh
The Guest Research Project is a residency program offering specially invited engineers and researchers with expertise in cutting-edge fields opportunities to perform research and development related to media technology together with YCAM InterLab. For the “Guest Research Project vol. 1 – Projector Camera Toolkit”, Kyle McDonald was invited to stay at YCAM for approximately three months, between August and November 2011. “ProCamToolKit” and “mapamok” that enable the easy calibration required for projection mapping, were developed and open shared in the project.
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Software | MIT License |
Website
YCAM Guest Research Project vol.1
Use Case
Real-time projection mapping (II) (‘Girls Night Out’, City Life Church, The Hague, 2012) Lex van der Sluijs created a new version of mapamok for ‘Girls Night Out’. It adds support for multiple projectors, and the ability to define a show with multiple show-segments, where each segment has its own content and GUI to control the visualization. The source code can be found in his fork of ProCamToolkit on GitHub.
Choreography filmed: 5days of movement (2011)
YCAM and choreographer/dancer Tsuyoshi Shirai collaborated on this videodance project. Originating from one specific videodance piece, the project was designed to explore the possibilities of audio-visual perception and video production in an age where the idea of an “artwork” is turning into an increasingly broad concept. Produced was the videodance piece “mass, slide, & . in frames”, as well as a special website on which the full piece could be watched. The website further includes functions that allow visitors to compare scenes from the video with unused footage, or watch/download all filmed material.
Achievement and License
| Achievement | License |
| Movie | Creative Commons License BY-NC-SA |
Website
Choreography filmed: 5days of movement
Choreography filmed: 5days of movement (YCAM Re-Marks)
Use Case
[BRDG013] primitive mindリリース! jealousguy×MaxRakisuta×白井剛
[BRDG013] primitive mind A remixed work was created by BRDG based on these contents that were made open to the public.
Open Publication of achievements developed at YCAM by Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media [YCAM] is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
