obx | laboratory for experimental media – Obx Labs was founded by Professor Jason Lewis a computational artist and developer based at Concordia Univeristy, Montreal and a member of the CINER-G reserach group. The lab is part of the Hexagram Research Axis (http://www.hexagram.org/spip.php?page=home&lang=en&sid=0) . The lab is interested in ‘ living letterforms, massively multi-contributor texts and time-travelling provocateurs’ – Obx it has research-creation as its principle focus and develop tools and repurpose technologies to demonstrate the potential for computational expression.
Some projects with which the lab is associated include:
Nexttext : nexttext.net – A project (based in Processing-Java) that allows the breakdown of text into unit hierarchies (phrases, words, letters) and to apply dynamic behaviours and interactions to those hierarchies.
Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace Project: http://www.abtec.org/
Mr Softie: A typographic text editor, for working with the nexttext framework.