Generative Art: Meet Your Creator (2012)

The project that caught my eye is Meet Your Creator, which was a live performance at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity in 2012. As a student in stage design, I found this project particularly interesting, and a little easier to understand from a programming perspective. 

When programming stage lights, we use certain softwares that already contain code for our specific needs, and program individual instructions for each light. These instructions are called cues, and during a live performance, there will be a person operating a console that runs the software, launching each cue throughout the performance.

Meet Your Creator is a little more complex from a design standpoint because this show involved the use of several drones which were programmed to execute aerial movements. I’m not familiar with how these would be programmed, however there is a screenshot from this project showing the software used for the drones, and you can see some ‘else if’ statements!

http://www.memo.tv/works/meet-your-creator/

Memo Akten: Show Director