University of Brighton 2017-2019
Street Address | Brighton-Grand Parade,
68 Grand Parade-BNH-BN2 0JY –UK-01273 600900
Module Team/ Author/ Coordinator and Course Executive | Sue Gollifer
Lecturers/ Benedict Sheehan, Luciana Haill, Alex May, Louis d’Aboville
By Zore Moshref
Social Media:
Blog/Website | wordpress/blog.com
WordPress | http://wordpress.zoremoshref.wordpress.com
Website | http://phoenixzombieplaza.zoremoshref.com/
Website | http://zoremoshref.com
- Presentation
- Experience
- The Idea
- Softwares
- Hardware
- 2nd Presentation
- Installation
- Installation Description
- Reflection
- Proposal
- Critical Reflective Statement
- Other Links
- Final Show
- Presenting Body of Work
Beyond the Screen AGM 33
By Zore Moshref
Week One
Luciana Hill,
Artist talk and introduction to Augmented reality and Pandora Star
What can PandoraStar be used for?
Creative visualisation & entertainment
Relaxation & stress management
Cognitive Enhancement & wellbeing
Self-hypnosis & personal development
Lucid dreaming precursor & deep meditation
The Lucid Strobe Light
https://lucianahaill.wordpress.com/2018/04/18/apparitions-is-a-new-artwork-by-luciana-haill/
Lucid Strobe Light in Wellness
https://lucianahaill.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/lucid-strobe-light-in-wellness/
“07973 286094 – help@brainmachine.co.uk
Closed-eye hallucinations science:
Amazingly is that the light is only WHITE LIGHT, so the colours & all the fractals you are seeing exist only inside your brain’s retinal processing area, this is known as the Occipital region (at the back of the head)
These intricate animations are scientifically referred to as Phosphenes & other entoptic motifs: spirals, concentric circles, diffraction patterns. & trust me – I’m an honorary research fellow associated with Greenwich University as an artist in residence in the Department of Psychology. I have worked as a Neurofeedback therapist in Holborn for several years & study brainwave changes during these altered states of consciousness”.
“Closed-eye hallucinations science: Amazingly is that the light is only WHITE LIGHT, so the colours & all the fractals you are seeing exist only inside your brain’s retinal processing area, this is known as the Occipital region (at the back of the head) These intricate animations are scientifically referred to as Phosphenes & other entoptic motifs: spirals, concentric circles, diffraction patterns. & trust me – I’m an honorary research fellow associated with Greenwich University as an artist in residence in the Department of Psychology. I have worked as a Neurofeedback therapist in Holborn for several years & study brainwave changes during these altered states of consciousness”.
PandoraStar light entrainment optional Brainwave (EEG)
Brain Wave Graph Images
Week Two
Ben Sheehan
Artist link: http://benedictsheehan.com/contact
DIGITAL RAIN By Benedict Sheehan
http://benedictsheehan.com/portfolio/digitalrain
Artist Talk and introduction to some programming and types of equipment
For instance; Processing, unity3d, Kinect 2
A brief description of beyond the screen
Week Three
A Rough Idea has been made
Week Five
Alex May / Creative software
Artist Talk and Introductions to Beyond Screen and some software, equipment and programs
Introduction to PanitWithLight Software
https://www.bigfug.com/software/painting-with-light/
https://www.bigfug.com/software/painting-with-light/#downloads
Experience with Projection Mapping
We had some experience around making objects for projection mapping
A video of experiencing making a very quick and simple projection mapping
My research on Projection Mapping and making some examples;
I decided to make my projection mapping scene using wooden and paper cardboard
Week Six
Add more materials to the projection mapping scene
Melt PVC plastic with 480 degrees for 5mins in the oven to make some shape of the flame
and the imaginations of ashes
Also, I made an object to present a Phoenix egg using a polystyrene egg shape
Week Seven
Sensors
https://electricalstudy.sarutech.com/sensor-types-of-sensor/index.html
Spark Fun: https://www.sparkfun.com/categories/23
Introduction to the different type of Sensors
- Acoustic & sound sensors: Microphone, Hydrophone.
- Automotive sensors: Speedometer, Radar gun, Speedometer, fuel ratio meter.
- Chemical Sensors: Ph sensor, Sensors to detect presences of different gases or liquids.
- Electric & Magnetic Sensors: Galvanometer, Hall sensor (measures flux density), Metal detector.
- Environmental Sensors: Rain gauge, snow gauge, moisture sensor.
- Optical Sensors: Photodiode, Phototransistor, Wavefront sensor.
- Mechanical Sensors: Strain Gauge, Potentiometer (measures displacement).
- Thermal & Temperature sensors: Calorimeter, Thermocouple, Thermistor, Gardon gauge.
- Proximity & Presences sensors: A proximity or presences sensor is the one which is able to detect the presences of nearby objects without any physical contact. They usually emit electromagnetic radiations and detect the changes in the reflected signal if; Doppler radar, Motion detector.
- Ultrasonic Sensor
- Infra-Red Sensor ( PIR)
Infra-Red / PIR Motion Detector Sensor
Infra-Red Sensor: https://www.lazada.com.ph/products/pyroelectric-infrared-pir-motion-sensor-detector-module-dyp-me003-i1974919-s2413505.html
Ultrasonic Distance Sensor
Ultrasonic Distance Sensor Connection with Arduino Diagram
A piece of code that has been used to connect Ultrasonic distance with Arduino Uno
//ultrasonic_trigger_motion_led_on
int trigPin = 9;
int echoPin = 10;
int led = 7;
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
pinMode(led, OUTPUT);
pinMode(trigPin, OUTPUT);
pinMode(echoPin, INPUT);
// put your setup code here, to run once: }
void loop() {
long duration, distance;
digitalWrite(trigPin,HIGH);
delayMicroseconds(1000);
digitalWrite(trigPin, LOW);
duration=pulseIn(echoPin, HIGH);
distance =(duration/2)/29.1;
Serial.print(distance);
Serial.println(“CM”);
delay(10);
if((distance<=10)) {
digitalWrite(led, HIGH); }
else if(distance>10) {
digitalWrite(led, LOW); } }
Week Eight
Different materials and opportunities that can be used for making beyond screen project
In this module, we experiment with innovative approaches and the use of new technologies to create digital installation artworks that relate to immersive and interactive experiences. we also have a chance to experiment by step ‘ out of the screen’ by avoiding the use of standard commercial interfaces like the mouse and keyboard and will play with mechanisms for exhibiting our project and installation, any sort of using AR/ VR virtual reality environments, Kinect system, Arduino, Raspberry Pi or projection mapping.
Here are some examples of different devices and programs opportunities that you can use for beyond the screen work/ installations or projects.
Week Nine
A Quick Introduction to Arduino Boards
Computing Platform
“Arduino is an open-source hardware and software company, project and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontroller and microcontroller kits for building digital devices and interactive objects that can sense and control objects in the physical and digital world. Its products are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License or the GNU General Public License, permitting the manufacture of Arduino boards and software distribution by anyone. Arduino boards are available commercially in preassembled form or as do-it-yourself kits”.
Arduino Mega 2560 R3
An introduction to Arduino Mega R3-2560
The Arduino Mega 2560 is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega2560 and it has 54 digital input and output pins. Each pin can be used as PWM ( Pulse Width Modulation ) outputs and the frequency of the PWM signal on most pins are approximately 490 Hz on UNO and similar boards, which it has 16 analogue inputs, also on the most Arduino boards especially those with the ATmega 168 or ATmega328P, this function works on pins 3, 5, 6, 9, 10 and 11. You can learn about PWM in the link provided/ Pulse Width Modulation – learn.sparkfun.com. Arduino Mega 2560 has a 4 UARTs using for hardware serial ports and 16 MHz crystal oscillator and a USB connection, an ICSP header, a reset button and a power jack.
In comparison, Arduino Leonardo is a microcontroller board on AT mega32u4 (datasheet) and it has 20 digital input and output pins. 7 pins can be used as PWM outputs and 12 as analogue inputs. A 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a power jack, a reset button, an ICSP header and a USB connection.
Arduino Leonardo
A projector that can be used for projection mapping
Projection mapping
“Projection mapping, similar to video mapping and spatial augmented reality, is a projection technology used to turn objects, often irregularly shaped, into a display surface for video projection. These objects may be complex industrial landscapes, such as buildings, small indoor objects or theatrical stages. By using specialized software, a two or three-dimensional object is spatially mapped on the virtual program which mimics the real environment it is to be projected on. The software can interact with a projector to fit any desired image onto the surface of that object. This technique is used by artists and advertisers alike who can add extra dimensions, optical illusions, and notions of movement onto previously static objects. The video is commonly combined with, or triggered by, audio to create an audio-visual narrative”.
Week Ten
Raspberry Pi
“The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries. The original model became far more popular than anticipated, selling outside its target market for uses such as robotics. It does not include peripherals and cases. However, some accessories have been included in several official and unofficial bundles”.
I am not using Rasberry Pi in this project.
Xbox360 Kinect
Kinect
Computer Peripheral
“Kinect is a line of motion sensing input devices that were produced by Microsoft for Xbox 360 and Xbox One video game consoles and Microsoft Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral, it enables users to control and interact with their console/computer without the need for a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands”.
After Beyond Screen now Beyond Glasses!
Beyond what we can see!
Virtual Reality Glasses!
Augmented reality
“Augmented reality is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real-world are “augmented” by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory. The overlaid sensory information can be constructive or destructive and is seamlessly interwoven with the physical world such that it is perceived as an immersive aspect of the real environment. In this way, augmented reality alters one’s ongoing perception of a real-world environment, whereas virtual reality completely replaces the user’s real-world environment with a simulated one. Augmented reality is related to two largely synonymous terms: mixed reality and computer-mediated reality”.
Week Eleven
My project and the installation
In my project, I’ve started by searching around some symbols in this case ‘Phoenix and Zombie ‘ to find out their meaning, functionalities and their influence in our daily life followed by bringing them into a live performance installation using digital media art.
To gain this aim I had some research and a glimpse around Persian literature, in specific to Shahnameh Ferdowsi regarding Phoenix.
The Shahnameh” is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,000 “distichs” or couplets, the Shahnameh is the world’s longest epic poem written by a single poet. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Arab conquest of Iran in the 7th century. Modern Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and the greater region influenced by the Persian culture celebrate this national epic”.
Week Twelve
Beyond the Screen – Interactive Installation – AGM33 / 08-10-2018
I have started practising around Arduino, first started to connect a LED, a transistor with Arduino and Bread Board, But before that, I’ve learnt about the Ohmmeter to measure the Transistor Voltage hence I need to buy some pieces of equipment, which I will introduce them here later.
A very basic code to make a blink LED on Arduino UNO
/*
Blink
Turns an LED on for one second, then off for one second, repeatedly.
Most Arduinos have an onboard LED you can control. On the UNO, MEGA and ZERO
it is attached to digital pin 13, on MKR1000 on pin 6. LED_BUILTIN is set to the correct LED pin independent of which board is used.
If you want to know what pin the onboard LED is connected to on your Arduino
model, check the Technical Specs of your board at:
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Products
modified 8 May 2014
by Scott Fitzgerald
modified 2 Sep 2016
by Arturo Guadalupi
modified 8 Sep 2016
by Colby Newman
This example code is in the public domain.
http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Blink
*/
// the setup function runs once when you press reset or power the board
void setup() {
// initialize digital pin LED_BUILTIN as an output.
pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);
}
// the loop function runs over and over again forever
void loop() {
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH); // turn the LED on (HIGH is the voltage level)
delay(1000); // wait for a second
digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW); // turn the LED off by making the voltage LOW
delay(1000); // wait for a second
}
A video of practice with led connection
More practice with Arduino Board
Now I am practising with the connection of Ultrasonic sensor
I have used to watch youtube and Linda.com
Within this journey, I have introduced to learn about Python and Processing code, so I have started to read about Python IDE, Arduino UNO website itself is a very good source to read and learn about coding for Arduino projects.
Have a look at the Arduino website:
Arduino.cc ; Interfacing-with-Arduino ; Arduino-Main-Education ; blog.arduino.cc;
Practising with Ultrasonic Sensor Connection with Arduino Video
A very useful resource about Electronics in the arts to read:
https://processing.org/tutorials/electronics/
Relay
Still, I need to learn about Relay before I start to work with it as it’s very dangerous and can cause death!
4 channel 30A Relay
The code used for Relay
Week Thirteen
My Beyond Screen Proposal
Phoenix Purification Dance
The Process:
The Concept
I have always a strong relationship with history and literature to visual cues. Symbols, shapes, colour, lights and forms that challenge the meaning of being alive and annihilations had always inspired me. Across the beyond screen modules, project, I focused on the same theme of creating a narrative, Hence, my goal for this module is the expansion of an idea to combine the conceptual meaning of a symbol in particular Phoenix in relation with processing experience that is visually appealing to the viewer, and so they have been looking at the ways in which I can interpret this.
In relation to my work beyond the screen, I had a very invigorating and motivating experienced which often challenged my innovations and ideas allowing me to apply a more investigative and eccentric approach. This is skills which I strongly believe will carry me through my future ambitions.
By translating this in different forms, I am hoping that everything I do will build upon shaping my final major project.
Inspiration
When I’m reading Persian poems, I’m completely mesmerized by the culture and beauty of the meaning. When I visited Iran last year in August 2017, I found the meaningful inspirational connections in everything that I experienced, the play of light and colour in all aspects of life, objects, places, spaces and even the spirit of its people was another endless manifestation.
when I was there I felt immersed in the culture and could see how much respect and appreciation there is between people and place. The value of things is very apparent in everyday life and even the smallest of details are considered, cared for and thought about. human communication and empathy are still very strong. Symbols are playing a special role in expressing and defining meaning, the concept of the views and attitudes of its people in life.
The Design Idea
From the outset of this project, I have aimed to produce a design that is aesthetically pleasing and that at first looks complete, before being interacted with and revealing something underneath. I found that I really liked the idea of transforming a meaningful symbol to a conductive object that can bring the human sense into the challenge, so I want to use video mapping across with processing as a platform in my work.
Inspirations from other Artists
After our initial sessions with Ben Sheehan (and discussing the use of different sensors and projector working with Arduino and processing), I began looking at how other artists and designers have explored video mapping and sensors within their work.
Pulse Mode: An Interactive Participatory Audiovisual Installation
Taking a mixture of inspiration from Dráha (Path) – interactive sound/light installation and Blow from Jiri Suchanek- light installation from Florian Dussopt ‘ Interactive Light Painting’ and the projects that have evolved from the ‘Bare Conjunctive’s’ electric conductive paint, I would like to design a piece that can challenge human sense when touched.
Design and Materials
For the Beyond the Screen module, I created an interactive table with a conductive object placed on top of the table that people can interact with the objects through the use of Ultrasonic and an Infra-Red sensor that will trigger a motion, a light and a relay to turn a heater on and off using Arduino microcontroller and a video appears on the wall in front of the table.
The Final Installation and Some Process Images
Equipment’s Images
Week Fourteen
Trial and Error – Electronics and Conductivity tests
As recorded on my blog, for safety and security, I carried out some initial Relay connection tests with a 9Volt battery connected to the breadboard and Arduino Uno microcontroller.
I used some Arduino and processing code to trigger the motion by using Ultrasonic and Infra-Red sensors to order the light to turn on and off. (I thought that if the Relay makes the tic sound then I could connect it to the higher voltage to turn the 240V heater on and off for the development of my installation.)
The testing included using an ohmmeter to measure the battery, relay or any current voltage to assure of using the right fuse or cable or Amp connected to the devices, for instance, a heater or etc…
Technology:
Hardware
- A set of Arduino Uno Box
- An Arduino UNO (Microcontroller board), finally changed with Mega 2560
- An Arduino Mega 2658 (MicroController board)
- An Arduino Acrylic Case
- Breadboard circuit
- Ultrasonic Sensor (4tronix HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor V2)
- Infra-Red Sensor (HC-SR501 PIR Motion Sensor)
- SunFounder 2- Channel DC 5V Relay
- A Lenovo V330-15 IKB Laptop
Equipment
- Optoma Hd141x Full HD 3D 1080p Projector
- USB Medium cables to connect Arduino Mega to the Laptop
- A Female Plug and 2m/Cable
- A Handy Heater – Modle: KLW-007A- (220-240V,50/60Hz),Power 400W
- SunFounder 2-Channel DC 5V Relay Module with Optocoupler Low-Level Trigger Expansion Board for Arduino UNO R3 MEGA 2560 1280 DSP ARM PIC AVR STM32Raspberry Pi
- A Remote Control
- A SINGLE SRD-05VDC-SL-C-5A Realy
- A Table (To set up the installation materials on top)
- Some Jumper Wires
- An LED
- 5V Electric Magnetic Active Buzzer Continuous Beep Continuously
- A 220V Resistor
- A Signstek pin full-cycle Ratchet wire crimping tool, crimper 2.54mm 3.96mm KF2510 28-18 AWG wire cutter
- A QLOUNI 620PCS 2.54mm Dupont Crimp pin connector pin header wire jumper and Male-Female Crimp Pins Kit
- UEETEK 5M 10 pin rainbow flat ribbon cable wire
- Neoteck Multimeter Pocket Digital Multi Tester Voltmeter Ammeter Ohmmeter AC/DC Voltage current resistance diodes transistor audible continuity with backlight LCD for factory and other social fields
- A scene made for projection mapping ( using cardboard, candles, x 4 aluminium round box, 3 pieces of stones, a foam board, a floral foam egg shape).
- Optoma Hd141x Full HD 3D 1080p Projector
- Sourcingmap® 50pcs 10K Ohm 3950B 5% Temperature Sensor NTC Thermistors MF52AT
- MasterPart Extra Strong Premium Self Adhesive Flexible Magnetic Tape Craft Magnet Strip (1m, 12.5mm)
- HDMI to USB cables
- The HC-SR50 PIR motion detector, 7m sensing range, wide voltage range
- A 3D LED Night Light, remote & touch control 3D LED night light series 7 / 16 colour change
Software
- Adobe After Effects CC(Animation)
- VPN (Projection mapping software)
- Processing IDE
- Painting with Light (Projection mapping software)
- Adobe Photoshop CC (Develop Images)
- Arduino Uno Software (Code for Arduino)
- Phyton (Code for Arduino)
- Raspberry Pi Software (Practiced Code for Arduino)
- Pure Data software (Code for Arduino)
- Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Software
One of my initial goals from the beginning was to create an interactive installation for my final outcome. In order to achieve this, I learnt how to use Arduino Mega 2560, Processing, adobe photoshop and After effects in a short space of time. I’ve learnt how to create vector images in Adobe Photoshop to make my video clip for projection mapping so I knew that I needed to be able to play around with the artwork scale, without compromising on quality. I then learned how to use Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro to convert and make my video clip into more details that enable me to cut, trim, modify and illustrate each keyframe and timelines, to produce simple but effective, colour video clip.
Set up
The projection mapping screen is a stand that has been made of a white wooden board with the size of (762 x 356 mm) for the base to hold the objects on top and another A1 proportion white cardboard (594 x 841 mm) has been made for a background that light can be projected through.
Another installation surface has been made with white a cardboard of (341 x 607 mm) to put and fix the equipment’s on top of it and a black Polystyrene table with the size of (600L x 430H x 421W mm) has been made for the base so that it matches the sizing for the installation/ artwork board.
Arduino Mega 2560 R3
I have started to work with Arduino Uno R3 and a 4 channel Relay but soon I realized that the Uno is not enough strong to transfer the amount of the data between processing and Arduino coding platform, so I have changed it to Arduino Mega R3 which I’ve got the free space of 32568 bites for transferring the data in between those hardware microcontrollers.
Arduino has been connected to the Relay, the USB led light, Ultrasonic sensor and Infra-Red sensor all connected to the Arduino using the specific pins as shown on the map that I have provided earlier in my presentation day.
The 240V electricity plug map
Connection Arduino Uno to LED, Buzzer and Transistors Picture
Relay Map NO 1
Connection A Heater and Arduino
The heater has been connected to the two-channel 10A Relay. The heater’s blue natural wire electricity cable has been connected to COM and NC of the Relay. The brown live wire and the GND wire has been connected directly to the live and GND of the plug.
The heater is also connected to Arduino by using GND, VCC negative and positive connections off to the breadboard and from breadboard to v5 and GND on Arduino pins. The IN1 connected to the pin 7 of Arduino.
Source and References
Candy, L., 2011. Research and Creative Practice. Interacting: Art, Research and the Creative Practitioner 33–59.
Priest, S.H., 2009. Doing media research: An introduction. Sage.
Candy, L. and Edmonds, E., 2002. Explorations in art and technology (pp. I-XV). London: Springer.
Devereux, E., 2013. Understanding the media. Sage.
Aalberg, T. and Curran, J. eds., 2012. How the media inform democracy: A comparative approach (Vol. 1). Routledge.
Marshall, P.D., 2004. New media cultures.
Briggs, A. and Cobley, P. eds., 2002. The media: an introduction. Pearson Education.
Gunter, B., 2002. The quantitative research process. A handbook of media and communication research: Qualitative and quantitative methodologies, pp.209-234.
Briggs, A. and Cobley, P. eds., 2002. The media: an introduction. Pearson Education.
Devereux, E., 2013. Understanding the media. Sage.
Marshall, P.D., 2004. New media cultures.
Some more sources to read :
Material to read for Uni-Year 2
https://www4.movierulzfree.me/a-quiet-place-2018-full-movie-watch-online-free-dvd-4-7671.html
Social Media:
Blog/Website | wordpress/blog.com
Website | http://phoenixzombieplaza.zoremoshref.com/
Media Resources:
Arduino with PIR Motion Sensor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJgtckLzoKM
How to Build a Heater with Arduino – Part 2:
https://www.alanzucconi.com/2016/08/02/arduino-heater-2/
Arduino to the Processing IDE
Learn how to connect the Arduino to the Processing IDE so they can communicate with one another.
How to use a Relay in Circuit and How a relay works (A good tutorial one):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clV_HtQenOk
The main one, I’ve used:
Control High Voltage Devices – Arduino Relay Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFQ8sBWc80&t=44s
HOW TO SET UP A 5V RELAY ON THE ARDUINO:
http://www.circuitbasics.com/setting-up-a-5v-relay-on-the-arduino/
Use Arduino to Switch Power On and Off!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuOrH9sSykk
Using the HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor with Arduino – Everything you need to know!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F1B_N6LuKw
Events participation:
Animation events in Brighton 11 May 7pm to 10
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/u/251579659908/
Glug Brighton Meets… Art&Graft
The ticket was: £9.00
Week Fifteen
Close to the end of the course!
My journey to making this Installation & Presentation Video
Thank you all my lecturers and others who helped me through this fantastic experiment.
2 Days Installation Preparation in Light House
We worked hard for 2 days to prepare for our installation.
Lighthouse- Brighton- February 2019
Preparation for;
An important excitement final show on the 7th of February 2019
And Finally Final Show:
University of Brighton-Lighthouse- AGM33 Final Show
Other MA/DMA Participant Projects and Installations Video
University of Brighton-Lighthouse- MA/AGM33 Final Show
This project is finished now. Posted on (15.01.2019)
PHOENIX TO ZOMBI 
