Friday, 30 November at 19.00

Free Admission
SOCO Amsterdam (Bloemstraat 162)

 

Discussion: Multi-Touch and Creative Industries

We will be holding a panel discussion concerning multi-point/ multi-user touchscreens and the future of computer interfaces... with a really great panel featuring:

- Harry van der Veen co-founder of the NUI Group which is the leading international community (over 1000 contributing members) for research of multi-point touchscreen technology... with an open souce platform for multi-touch computing.

- Martin Kaltenbrunner co-developer of Reactable which is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface (currently incorporated as a key instrument of Björk's Volta world tour). One of the best known examples of multi-touch interfaces.

- Ralph Das artist creating new applications for multi-point touchscreens . At the discussion, Das will debut a brand new application which he has made specifically for Redefining the Space titled the 'NewsWell'.

With such fanatastic guests here at SOCO giving demonstrations of the latest advancements in multi-touch technology, this promises to be an truley awesome event. For those familitar with multi-touch, this is a chance to talk with some of the top researchers in the field. For those interested in learning more about multi-touch, there could be no better introduction.

We hope that you can join us for an interesting and active discussion on Friday, 30 Nov. (at 19.00).
Although reservations are not required, to ensure a good seat, we recommend an RSVP by sending and email to peter[at]socoamsterdam.nl.

Press inquiries, please contact Peter Distol email peter[at]socoamsterdam.nl or tel. 06 14 00 2961.

For more info on multitouch computing please check the following links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/65
http://www.microsoft.com/surface/
http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/
http://nuigroup.com/

 

 

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SOCO organizes events to provide a podium for certain temporal (time-based) disciplines.

Considering that much of the work that SOCO produces and exhibits is user-responsive, events help make those artworks more accessible by creating a social context in which to interact with them.