Prof. Anthony Hornof to Perform New Media Art in NYC
Associate Professor Anthony Hornof will perform "EyeMusic v1.0" at NIME 2007, the leading international conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. The conference will be held this year at New York University, and features paper presentations as well as evening concerts which are open to the public. EyeMusic v1.0 is a musical and multimedia composition that is performed entirely using eye movements, by means of a device that monitors where a person is looking on a computer screen.
"The eye tracker that we are using is primarily intended as a scientific research instrument, or as a means for communication for people with severe disabilities. Eye tracking has only been used in a very limited way in new media art, and we are kind of pushing the boundaries here," says Prof. Hornof. The composition is co-composed by Troy Rogers, who is a graduate of UO's Future Music Oregon program, who performed EyeMusic v1.0 at SEAMUS 2006, the annual meeting of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States. CIS Ph.D. student Tim Halverson also assisted in the composition.
Dr. Hornof is also using eye tracking for numerous other projects, including working with children with severe motor impairments to develop eye-controlled software such as EyeDraw, which enables children with disabilities to draw pictures by just moving their eyes. Dr. Hornof joined the department in 1999 and specializes in human-computer interaction. Dr. Hornof's research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.
For more information on this new media art, please visit the EyeMusic website.