tagtool
The Tagtool is an open source instrument for drawing and animation in a live performance situation. Its development is coordinated by OMA International.
The project aims to explore digital drawing as a means for communication - on stage, on the street and over the internet.
The Tagtool is in use as a visual instrument in theatres, youth centers, at jam sessions with musicians and for performances in public spaces. It serves as a VJ tool, a creative video game for children, and an intuitive tool for creating animation. Currently GaiaNova has the only Tagtool prototype in the UK.
The Tagtool is operated collaboratively by an artist drawing the pictures and an animator adding movement to the artwork with a gamepad. The design achieves virtually unlimited artistic complexity with a simple set of controls, which can be mastered even by children.
GaiaNova has worked with the Tagtool at
- Royal Festival Hall - Overture
- Spirit Level - Grand Opening
- Some Other Way Forward - Family Tour
- Childrens Literature Festival - Queen Elizabeth Hall
- Wall of Light - part of the Illuminating York Festival
We have more exciting projects in the pipeline.
Click here to check out the Tagtool site
Projects
- BBC Four WCA
- BFI
- Big Chill
- Brian Eno
- British Museum
- Faster Than Sound
- First Contact
- Flat-e
- Linde
- Motorola
- NPower
- Onedotzero
- Optronica
- Pentavision
- PSI
- Red Carpet
- RFH Overture
- Roskilde Festival
- Royal Gala
- Royal Opera House
- Screenplay
- Secret Garden Party
- SOWF
- Shambala
- Space
- Spirit Level
- St Barnabas Fete
- Stanley
- Studio Artois
- tagtool
- Thames Festival
- Video
- Wall of Light