David Hindman will discuss his Harvestworks Residency project, the
Public Guitar-Controlled Video Game Competition. He will focus on the guitar as an
H.I. device and the implementation of the video game PONG using Max/Msp/Jitter. A
brief performance of guitar-controlled PONG will include collaborator Evan Drummond
as the ensemble Modal Kombat. Hindman is an interactive artist and designer working
in music, video games, and interface design. At NYU’s ITP he designed and developed
systems for controlling video games with musical instruments. David is a contributor
to the New Instruments for Musical Expression Conference (NIME) and recently was a
guest speaker at the 2007 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.
