Sifting through the pages of the Arkiv
see also: http://pad.constantvzw.org/public_pad/sicv_workshop_oslo_2015
blurb

The Norwegian artist Guttorm Guttormsgaard collected some 25 000 items  throughout his life, ranging from kitchen utensils, books, and furniture to handwritten qurans and modernist painting. The so-called archive is housed in a former dairy in Blaker near Oslo and moves emphatically across most established social and cultural divisions. Here, individual outsiders and collective life-forms – “art of known and unknown origins” – are documented. In a joint installation and workshop Guttormsgaard  and the Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism will experiment with different ways of interfacing the archive from a distance. Can the archive fit into a bag (of words)? Or be bound in a (e)book? Sifted through by means of computer vision algorithms? How can we reread and rewrite its histories?

http://www.obs-osv.com/
http://sicv.activearchives.org/logbook/

Installation: "Bookworms"

* 2 Raspberry PIs

ASK:
* 2 projectors (HDMI or DVI connection)

Three main worms:
    Pixel worm
    Gradient worm
    Tesseract worm

Pixel worm: produce new layers based on different pixelations of the image (2x2, 4x4, 8x8, etc) and zoom in to a specific pixel then jump to a pixel of similar color value in another image (and maybe any resolution)... Zoom out and reveal whole picture.

Gradient worm: based on the "neon" representation of image gradients, start with full size image, cut to neon version, zoom into a particular pixel (whose color represents a gradient direction) and cut a similar color pixel in another image, zoom out and reveal the original image.
Tesseract worm, inspired by the lexicality and texuality layers, use tesseract's hocr output (plus ngram based indexing of the resulting "words") to match based on ngrams. Again start with full size image, zoom into word region, reveal the matching ngram, cut to word region in matching image and zoom out.

Hi Michelle,
Indeed for the installation we would need either 2 projectors (which could project onto a wall or special projection screens if necessary) -- OR 2 montiors. We will bring 2 small computers (raspberry pi's) to drive the displays. The output of the PI is HDMI, so the projectors (or monitors) would need to support this input.
We will be using the scanner only for the workshop on Thursday. Is the idea that the workshop will be in the same space as the installation? If so, then indeed a table is probably sufficient as we can make use of the projectors / monitors that are there. Is there a timing set for the workshop? How long should it be in total do you think?








Older Notes


Play with the link between the book ((navigable) slide show on 1 screen) and the different algorithmic treatments + orderings
Workshop
Begin w/ Guttorm in conversation w/ Ellef. Presenting the archive and possibly starting w/ an object brought ot bought for the occasion.
Contours, meeting point for GG and SICV
Matisse?
Images of workshop drawings by Guttorm
Presentation of the work done on the archive
Introduction to the Advanced interface.
Participants?
Hope for a mix of museum / curators / artists / designer and those from media / programming / computer vision types.
http://www.icpr2014.org/
https://www.kth.se/en/csc/forskning/cvap
Afternoon
Bridge to OSLO
AIM at this time to have the GG Report 3 ready (SICV for later)
(Interface as a design tool for the report)
(Ability to order and output design ready formats)
( How to automate in essence the process for LGMagazine == output as SVG sandwich document )
( ? Also output as PDF / orderings as page orderings )
( OCR and the relation to book scanning ... point of departure for designers -- what could it mean to not fully automatize the process of OCR as a designers approach to a text ) OCR as a bastard practice bridging computer science and natural language.
Imagining future (e)readers
server to run code that doesn t run on one s own computer, give access to opencv without having to install
* Crash course "coding" with images
* Getting designers to think outside of the adobe suite / standard