“Be your own Souvenir” takes part in CulturTech (Ireland) and in the 7th Seoul Media Art Biennale

The project “Be your own Souvenir” from  blablabLAB has been selected to take part in in two international events: the new media festival “CulturTech” in Ireland, and the  7th Seoul Media Art Biennale

“Be your own souvenir” is a proposal that aims to connect street users, arts and science, linking them to under-laying spaces and their own realities. The user becomes the producer as well as the consumer through a system that invites him/her to perform as a human statue, with a free personal souvenir as a reward: a small figure of him/herself printed three-dimensionally from a volumetric reconstruction of the person generated by the use of three structured light scanners (kinect). All the software used in this project is free and open. Custom software has been developed using openFrameworks and openKinect in order to produce a tunable full 360 degree point cloud. “Be Your Own Souvenir” has been rewarded in the Prix Ars Electronica 2011 in the “The Next Idea” category .

+info about the project

+info about  CultureTech

+info about 7th Seoul Media Art Bienalel