Recently got back from our big second year international trip to Turin, which was great fun. We went to the Share festival, which was a bit smaller than I was expecting it to be with only about five or six installations, but they were good ones! Still, you kind of go away thinking that with a bit of hard work and a little learning of certain technologies, you could probably make some of that stuff yourself.

We did a lot of walking and saw a lot of sites. My favourite was probably just the view you got at the top of the film museum, which was a massive tower that you could take a lift up to and overlook the entire, sprawling city. We liked it so much, we returned at sunset to get some great photos..



Check out all of the shots at my Flickr account

I've also YouTubed a few of the installations at the festival..



This was "Delicate Boundaries" by Christine Sugrue, and kind of reminded me of mine and Vicky's organism, mixed in with the organisms of certain others for that project. The little bugs follow your finger around the screen, then can wander off of it onto your arm by way of a projector. Very clever, and won the prize, I believe.



"Virtual Identity Process" by D3D, which asked for a name to be inputted, and then a visualisation on the table is created based on the google image search results from that name. You can then drag around the various results with your finger. Looked really cool, but I'm not sure what it was really supposed to do other than that.



This was very cool. "Knife.Hand.Chop.Bot" by Emanuel Andel. A knife is stabbed on the table multiple times between the fingers of the users spread out hand. The machine can identify the fingers and measure how much they're sweating, and the more they sweat the faster it goes. Brilliant idea, but must have been nerve-racking to test for the first time, without a dummy hand.

I think everyone really enjoyed themselves out there - and we got to see Hugo completely hammered too!

Oh well, back to work now I guess. I have a shitload to do over easter. :(