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UEL academic creates quirky new smart phone app

Thursday 26 April 2012

Max Hattler phone ap

Max Hattler, animation artist and visiting lecturer in Animation and Moving Image at the University of East London, has collaborated with IndieSkies, a games development start-up, to create Kaleidobooth, a photo-taking application for smart phones.

The app allows people to create unusual patterns from simple photographs, creating visual effects similar to those generated by a mechanical kaleidoscope. Inspired by both children’s toys and traditional psychedelic imagery, the app is currently available on the Windows Phone 7 platform. Max hopes it will also be available for iPhones and more later this year.

Kaleidobooth, initially commissioned by onedotzero, a London-based organisation which promotes digital arts, along with mobile phone giant, Nokia, was intended to bring together both cutting-edge technology and fresh artistic talent to create a unique and winning app.

Onedotzero, co-founder and creative director, Shane Walter, said: “Kaleidobooth manages to showcase the great camera and screen technology of the phone in addition to showing that artists and technologists can come together to do great things.”

Adding: “The resulting Kaleidobooth is a lot of fun, easy to use and encourages us all to create and deliver mini-masterpieces.”

Dazed and Confused magazine, said: “Mad hatter of digital media and experimental animation, Max Hattler, has been twisting, turning and looping our brains since graduating with an MA from the Royal College of Art in 2005.”

Max is also currently studying towards a Professional Doctorate in Fine Art (DFA) here at UEL.

To visit Max's website, click here

To visit Kaleidobooth’s Facebook page, click here

To download the App, click here

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