In the main train station “Life Science Zurich”, a joint initiative by ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and UZH (University of Zurich), participated with an exhibition explaining the principles of Darwin’s theory to the public at the occasion of Darwin’s 200st birthday.

NOVA was also included in the exhibit to run real-time experiments as they are used to study evolutionary game theory which is a special field in social science focusing on the evolution of social behavior. Christian Hauert (University of British Columbia, Vancouver) has created the mathematical framework to study the long-term impact of cooperative versus uncooperative behavior of individuals and groups which determines the survival of an entire population. These algorithms have been transformed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan of ETH Zurich to make them available as interactive applications on the NOVA terminal, where the audience can play some of the experiments themselves.

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In the wonderful space of Ormeau Baths Gallery, a gallery for contemporary art in Belfast, "The Stealth Project" by squidsoup is shown as part of ISEA 2009. Stealth is a game, where two players compete against each other by shooting missiles accross the 3d space. Missiles may be destroyed by the radar or by enemy fire. The players control the game with two monomes (64 led buttons interface). The exhibition will be on until 30th of august.

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For the 5th anniversary celebrations of swissnex Singapore, NOVA was installed in the Equinox space of Swissôtel. Music performed by Karen Undritz and Junyan Natasha Liu was visualized in real time according to the level and frequencies of the sound.

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Read more about the event on the swissnex homepage.

From May 15th through May 20th, NOVA baby was presented at the International Science & Art Exhibition in Shanghai. The exhibition took place at the Expo building in Shanghai in the new Pudong area. The theme of the exhibition was „We are going along with the World Expo!“.

Different countries were present at the exhibition (Greece, Australia, ...) along with local universities and college students from Shanghai. ETH Zurich with NOVA was part of the Swiss corner along with the Artificial Intelligence Lab of University of Zurich and Presence Switzerland. The Swiss stand was organized by swissnex Shanghai.

We had the great pleasure to have Zexun Shen with us, a young cello talent, who performed twice at the exhibition. The live sound of the cello was analyzed and then visualized on the NOVA. Levels and frequencies of the sound transformed visuals in realtime resulting in different colors, patterns and rhythm. This concept, Sound to Image, how we call it, was already a big success in Stuttgart. When Shen was not present, a video installation was running.

At particular times in the exhibition, visitors could get in touch with NOVA in an interactive way by controlling content (3d movies), colors, scaling and other parameters.

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