VJ and music producer Simulcast from Brisbane, Australia:
I recently built my own tagtool (I’ve never soldered or put together anything electronic before!) and after lots of fiddling around, I have a cool working model. I used pots instead of sliders and after tweaking a few values inside nodekit I managed to get it working great. I’ve attached two pics, because of the knobs I think it should almost be a tagtool micro
An interesting new take on making the Tagtool a real performer’s instrument.
Made by Dave aka ibnutty, who will demonstrate the Tagtool at SIGGRAPH 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center:
For more information you can contact Dave.
23rd of July, Spratzener Kirchenweg, home of Lames, St.Pölten
Here are some pictures (courtesy of Susan Sloan) from a presentation about the Tagtool Project to the Visual Research Group of the NCCA Bournemouth in England. Markus demonstrated the concept and showed some examples of past Tagtool applications.
Here’s a video of the talk at Breakpoint 08 held by Richard, Markus and Matthias.
For this seminar Richard wrote up a guide how to program a custom node for the Nodekit.
Props go out to the Breakpoint crew for making their seminars available!
We are happy to announce two upcoming Nodekit Events in Germany.
Breakpoint 2008, world’s biggest pure demoscene event. For the 6th time, up to 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are once again expected to gather in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany, from the 21st to the 24th of March 2008, enjoying 4 days of round-the-clock activities in arts, technology and international socializing.
Richard and Markus will give an introduction to the Nodekit, which is a node-based programming environment for interactive graphics that runs the Tagtool program. Richard, as the lead programmer, will explain the software architecture of the Nodekit and demonstrate how to program your own nodes. Markus, as the application designer, will talk about how the project evolved so far, the implications of offering the software under an Open Source licence and about the future roadmap of the project.
Saturday, 22. April 2008, 14:45
Seminar: Introducing the Nodekit - An Open-source Node-based Programming Environment for Interactive Graphics
NODE08 provides an event to the ever growing vvvv community, to get to know each other, to present, to exchange and share with a curious and interested audience. NODE08 is also part of the Luminale light art festival, which takes place at the same time in Frankfurt and will be supported by lighting art and lighting installations created by our participants.
The goal of the workshop is to communicate between vvvv and the Nodekit. We will send the data collected by drawing onto the Tagtool to vvvv to create parallel visual remixes.
Attention! Date has been changed to Thursday, 10th of AprilUPDATE: The workshops take place on Wednesday, 9th of April
10am-1pm: Tagtool & Nodekit Workshop
2:30-5:30pm: Nodekit talks to VVVV over OSC Workshop
We opened a Discussion Group for any questions about the tagtool.
Also the development of the Tagtool Kit software is now hosted on Google Code.
