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Group photo of the participants in the IDMIL symposium (Photo credit: Moonseok Kim).

Back row, from left: Erika Donald, Mark Zadel, Vanessa Yaremchuk. Steven Livingstone, Stephen Sinclair, Marcelo M. Wanderley, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Jerôme Nika.

Front row, from left: Joseph Malloch, Vijay Rudraraju, Bruno Angeles, Joseph Thibodeau.

Missing: Avrum Hollinger, Marc Thompson.

Avrum Hollinger's work is featured in the latest issue of McGill's Headway Magazine, a collaboration with Profs. Robert Zatorre and Virginia Penhune.

The website for the SenseStage project is now live, with download links for all the software tools being developed for the project. The project features:

• Wireless Sensor Hardware: A small, custom designed PCB board that can be worn on the wrist, sewn into clothing, or embedded in objects.
• Data Sharing Environment: Collaborators subscribe to any data streams they want to use, and supply data streams of their own for use by other collaborators.
• Real-Time Control Of Media: In development are modules allowing for analysis of data streams providing building blocks that generate complex behaviours for output media.

Here's a video showing some of the projects and feedback generated by the SenseStage Workshop held May 16-23, 2009. SenseStage is a collaborative project between the IDMIL and labXmodal at Concordia Unversity; the workshop was held to begin exploration of new hardware and software tools developed for using low-cost, distributed sensing in the media arts.