“A hands-free web-based game where you use your nose to hit the targets, and your voice to start and end the game. Easy.”

Created by David Kelly at ITP Camp, 2021.

Built for play in the browser, with the web technologies: P5.js, ML5.js, P5 Speech & P5 Audio. Inspired by Yona’s session on Posenet.

• Play: https://davekelly.github.io/Nose-Warrior/
• Source https://github.com/davekelly/Nose-Warrior

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Cosáin Virtual is a visual art project based on positive mental health for the residents surrounding Barna Woods in County Galway. The project aims to design and create location-based augmented reality artworks at Barna Woods, County Galway. The AR experience connects the audience with nature, positive mental health and technology.

The project is a collaboration between Samir Mahmood and David Kelly, and is currently in its research and development phase. Work on this project was generously supported by the Galway County Council Arts Office in 2021.

Further details on the project and its development are available on the project website at CosainVirtual.com

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This poetry generator adapts Nick Montfort’s “Love Letters“. It is adapted to use randomly selected vocabularies taken from the song lyrics of Amy Winehouse, Nirvana & Prince, with lyric collections from: https://www.kaggle.com/paultimothymooney/poetry

The requirements of the exercise were to consider:

• Can you make the love letter generator be more human?
• Can you change the word database for it to perform about other topics?
• What kind of topics would be relevant?
• How does the work change by modifying the complexity of its processes?
• What does the texts gain from that action?
• Will the statement of the work be different if we increase/decrease its complexity?

Outputs

• View the work at: https://davekelly.github.io/SchoolofMA_AlgoPoetry/week-2/index.html
• Source at: https://github.com/davekelly/SchoolofMA_AlgoPoetry/tree/master/week-2

The Algorithmic Poetry Programme

The programme was run by Mario Guzman.

The class aims to merge three different universes: code, literature, and machine learning. We will descend into this Bermuda Triangle of disciplines with a poetic, speculative, and conceptual approach, as well as a technical perspective. What is the difference between writing with code and writing with text? Is code a new material? What is electronic literature and code poetry? How far the-rabbit-hole can computers take us?

This poetic interpretation of computational logic in creative coding and machine learning will allow us to review concepts and engage with tools to convey new meanings to our writing experiences. After this month-long program, each participant will have a wide array of concepts and techniques to continue exploring poetic code writing with machine learning alongside their own digital art practice.

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Layered Landscapes is an interactive Augmented Reality (AR) application, which layers elements of research projects that focus on natural, historical and cultural heritage, and their interpretations of landscape. The project brought these elements together with topographical data, and Tim Robinson’s detailed mapping of the Connemara landscape.

When viewed through the app, the map is presented in 3D, including topographic data provided by NASA. Layered upon it are interactive location-based points of significance taken from the Ireland Illustrated and the Landed Estates databases, both of which are hosted by the Moore Institute at NUI Galway.

The project was produced for the final showcase exhibition of the Future Landscapes workshop, run by the School of Machines, Making and Make-believe, in collaboration with the Moore Institute @ NUI Galway, and Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture. The exhibition was held at the Cornstore, Middle St., Galway, 31st May, 2019.

Future Landscapes was an intensive four-week, full-time workshop which ran during May, 2019. The workshop was run as a collaboration between the School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe, Moore Institute @ NUI Galway and Galway 2020. I was the co-organiser on the NUI Galway side of the project.

The aim of the workshop was to allow participants to develop the skills to explore the use of immersive technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, within the context of Landscape, both seen and unseen. This included, for example, the augmentation of physical landscapes, or creating immersive experiences related to social or political landscapes.

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This workshop introduced key aspects of visualising research data using web-based maps. Participants had the opportunity to get hands-on and follow along with a demonstration of how to create your own simple web-based maps, using Google Maps and Carto.

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These slides are from a workshop given to Early Career Researchers and Doctoral Students as part of NARTI (Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative) at Northumbria Business School, Newcastle, UK in January 2018. This was part of a 1-day workshop on Positioning Your Research for Impact and Interactive Data Visualisation.

The aim was to provide participants with an overview of current trends with respect to interactive data visualisation and to provide participants with an opportunity to develop an interactive data visualisation plan for their own research.

View the slides on Speakerdeck.

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The talk covered examples of data visualisation, some areas to avoid, and examples of tools available for researchers to use when exploring their own data, and creating their own interactive data projects.

Updates: These slides were updated on 14^th December, 2016

This talk was given at NUI Galway to researchers, students, non-academic staff and on-campus company staff on the 16^th and 23^rd of November, and on the 15^th of December, 2016.

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One of the questions I was curious about was how many nights would a property need to be rented through Airbnb to cover the owner’s rent – that’s dealt with in the interactive map. The rest of the visualisations explore the spread of the rental properties throughout the city and county. They also make use of open data published on rental costs and property vacancy rates.

You can see it at www.davidkelly.ie/airbnb

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Direct link to the podcast.

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The week ended with 74 primary schools taking part – meaning this reached over 12,000 children across Galway City and County.

In many schools, the teachers provided the mentoring, in others, the older children taught the younger children. In other cases, people from the partner organisations went out and facilitated the training.

The partners in the project were Galway2020, CoderDojo Galway, Galway Education Centre, NUI Galway, IBM, Boston Scientific, and SAP.

You can seen an interactive version of the map of participating schools (pictured above) at http://galwayhourofcode.davidkelly.ie/fixed-light

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