THEpUBLIC Displays Some Backbone 

We're just back from a technical demonstration / debugging / milestone session for the
Audio Bounce sound installation, which will be one of the initial works on display at
THEpUBLIC when it opens in September. This was my first chance to work with a release of the
gallery's high-speed media backbone, which integrates a database of media assets recorded by visitors with a gallery-wide RFID sensing network. Thanks to
MaxMSP, its integration with Java, some tense multithreading and a small rubble of XML/XPath libraries, we've successfully linked into the media profiling process. A live demonstration with the Huron surround-sound processor was thwarted by the hardware being lost in customs somewhere, but we've had the spatialisation (i.e. the actual audio "bouncing") running on
PGAD's Huron rig as of last week.
The actual gallery space is still a building site, so it's pink hard-hats all round, but we did get to take some
photos.