Rnul interactive

Please write a message, but who will answer you? Another visitor of the exhibition or our chatbox robot? Can you tell the difference? The installation consist of two chatbox stations placed in different exhibition spaces, the stations can communicate with each other or through a computer bot. Part of the ‘Die Roboter’, an exhibition on the relationship between man and machine, opened by Karl Bartos (ex-Kraftwerk) and Thorben Albrecht (State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Germany).

This project is made entirely in Max without java or javascript additives. Which was very hard especially with special characters and input by a keyboard. Max is probably not the easiest program to develop something like this, but in the end it is well done with lots of max scripting of comment boxes, regexp, colls, itoa and atoi objects.

chatbox-robot-installation

Chatbox Robot installation

In addition to the Max mailing list, there is now a full-fledged Max chat room on IRC.  If you haven't checked it out yet, come on by. I can't guarantee that there will be someone to talk to 24 hours a day, but we have some regulars now and also some people that pop in from time to time.

While the mailing list has its advantages in being a good place to solve problems and keep a record of the solution in the archive, the IRC channel operates on a much more personal level, and you can finally get to know the geeks who have helped you out in the past (or the other way around).

Once again, the original thread that started this is here:  http://synthesisters.com/hypermail/max-msp/Sep04/24002.html The #maxmsp channel is on the UnderNet network, which is a large, worldwide network of IRC servers. Connecting to any UnderNet server will connect you to the whole network. The most popular UnderNet servers are: irc.undernet.org - will redirect you to a random undernet server worldwide us.undernet.org - will redirect you to a random undernet server in the US eu.undernet.org - will redirect you to a random undernet server in Europe If one doesn't work, try a different one. Once you've successfully connected, just type: /join #maxmsp and you're in! Here are some webpages to get you started: http://www.irchelp.org/ -     a good site for people who have never heard of IRC  http://www.faqs.org/faqs/irc/undernet-faq/part1/ -       a very lengthy FAQ that probably has the answer to just about any question you would have about IRC.  


In addition to the Max mailing list, there is now a full-fledged Max chat room on IRC.

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