Corpora in Si(gh)te

Corpora in Si(gh)te modifies, enhances, evolves around the one but hundred years old building of the Hungarian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale built by the plans of Géza Maróti. If you are interested to learn more on the history of the building itself, read the rest of this entry, taken from corresponding article website of the 51. Venice Biennale project website.

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The Venice transport (most of the hardware of Corpora) from Japan is ready to sail (actually they will fly). All the stuff was packed at the YCAM by the local crew and Sota, and now ready to travel to Venice, the location of the 11th Architectural Exhibition.  The boxes first shall arrive to Budapest, to the local Kunsthalle, then they will travel to Venice by truck.

Check out the images of the packing below!

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As the Team of embarking on a trip to Venice for a technical survey, Gyula Július, the project leader made some concept drawings on the possible sensor and camera locations for the Corpora system. The red dots are the suggested locations of cameras, and the green ones are for the sensors.

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I’ve started to register the domain name corpora.hu so that we’ll have a URL that is easier to remember. It will be regsitered in 17 days, then we’ll migrate to it…

Yesterday we had a great meeting at the Műcsarnok (literally – Arts Hall, I wonder why they brand themselves as Kunsthalle on their English site, and not have a proper English name). Műcsarnok is the organization hosting the Venice Biennale Hungarian Pavilion project, and it is within their framework that the Corpora exhibition will be made there.

They are very nice and operative people, and I’m sure it will be fruitful to work with them.

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Yesterday I met officials at the Hungarian National Office for Research and Technology, where we applied for funds to display Corpora in Hungary as a form to popularize embedded and ambient computing in general.

Corpora relies heavily on Zigbee wireless mesh-networked technology to sense the outside environment, which acts as input for the generated architecture. These sensors are spread around, magically form a mesh network and start to talk with each other that way. Then we can ask any one of them, who will get the information from the other motes and then give it to us. Much like gossip and other information is disseminated and spreading in human societies.

As it turns out, our application got the go-ahead after the usual evaluation procedure – but, the Office has already spent its complete budget for the program we applied for on other applications. For the whole year, even though it’s only April.

This is a major setback for both displaying Corpora in Budapest next year, and providing required resources for the Biennale exihibition.

I’ve just posted a page describing my ventures into cross-platform C++ development using CMake and Eclipse CDT. The results are mostly based on the CMake – Eclipse tutorial, and also on some experimentation / verification on my own. The post includes a description and a code sample that is a little OpenGL application that compiles & runs on all Linux, Mac OS and Windows – including development using and IDE, interactive debugging among other things.

It’s always funny to work on multiple platforms at the same time – this is something I always liked actually.