Relay of Joy film: proposal for Open Ear
October 31, 2007
Proposal for ‘A Relay of Joy” drawing. Tim Long, October 2007
Outline
A twenty minute live performance, creating a drawing of a figure on paper mounted onto a wall. The marks and motion of the stylus will generate sounds via midi triggers and a computer, played into a PA system.
The live action of the drawing is intended to be relayed via a video camera to a data projector.
Description of proposal
A relay of joy. Creating a drawing of a figure for the duration of the performance and a unique, graphically defined soundtrack determined by the position and intensity of the marks.
The live performance is intended to open a dialogue with the audience, through their engagement with the physical, aural, and graphic assembly of the work. The physical movement of the ‘artist’ will be aligned with the aural responses of the marks as they are made, eliding with the graphic properties of the marks themselves.
Further details
A new subject will be created within the performance, represented by the drawn figure, the duration of the work, and the shared experience of ‘artist’ and spectators. The network will be represented by the entire assembly: computer, drawing, sound, audience, duration.
The subject-image assembly will be relayed through the technology, physical movement, a development of graphic marks delineating a human form, referencing haptic sensations, and related physiological and psychological responses:
Haptic of or relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch and proprioception.
Haecceity the property of being a unique and individual thing. The sound track uses recorded loops and samples of the human voice and other textures.
Equipment I can provide
Mac laptop, midi interface, trigger box, triggers, paper, drawing board
Equipment I would like to borrow for the performance
Amp and PA for sound
Video camera for relay to data projector and for recording the performance.
Other requirements
Lighting
It would be helpful to have local lights shining on the board, preferable from two sources, to eliminate heavy shadows.
I would need to position the equipment to the side of the work space, so there are no tables or obstructions between myself and the audience.
The paper will be pre-hung on a board I will provide, which may be mounted to the wall, or may be stabilised somehow so it does not move around. The triggers will be taped beneath it, so the bottom height of the paper would be about four feet from the ground, so that my body or shadow does not significantly obscure the work.
If the performance is filmed, I would like the video to be relayed live to a data projector. The audience with then see a duplicate of the live action drawing on screen.
Bar Code Hotel
June 8, 2007
Bar Code Hotel (overview image above) by Perry Hoberman employes barcodes as an interface (image below left) to a virtual environment (image below right) and is one of those works which seems to preempt the current interest in The Internet of Things. While the use of networks as part of this work (excluding the social network created between its users) is minimal it bears a striking resemblance to some works created over the last few years with R.F.I.D. / Data Matrix including I Can Read You, Urban Eyes and Meghan Trainor’s work.
Within the installation the public interacts with what is displayed on screen by scanning bar codes which correspond to:
familiar and inanimate things from everyday experience: eyeglasses, hats, suitcases, paper clips, boots, and so on.
The behavior of these everyday objects can then be modified with bar codes which correspond to certain actions or effects on the virtual objects themselves such as movement, location etc. or between them and other virtual objects such as chase, avoid, merge etc.
The public simultaneously influences and interacts with computer-generated objects in an oversized three-dimensional projection, scanning and transmitting printed bar code information instantaneously into the computer system. The objects, each corresponding to a different user, exist as semi-autonomous agents that are only partially under the control of their human collaborators. Each guest who checks into the Bar Code Hotel dons a pair of 3D glasses and picks up a bar code wand, a lightweight pen with the ability to scan and transmit printed bar code information instantaneously into the computer system. Because each wand can be distinguished by the system as a separate input device, each guest can have their own consistent identity and personality in the computer-generated world. And since the interface is the room itself, guests can interact not only with the computer-generated world, but with each other as well.
Reblogged from Network Research.
ARToolkit
May 18, 2007
The ARToolKit is one software library you could use to build your own Augmented Reality projects / interfaces. Below are images of projects created with ARToolKit. Timo Arnall has an interesting write up of some experiments he did with this free for non-commercial use software library.
ARTag (image and videos below) is another system which uses tags (very similar to Data Matrix tags):
where virtual objects, games, and animations appear to enter the real world. 3D graphics is added in real time to video, similar to “view matching” in Hollywood, except that with Augmented Reality it is happening online. ARTag “Magic Lens” and “Magic Mirror” systems use arrays of the square ARTag markers added to objects or the environment allowing a computer vision algorithm to calculate the camera “pose” in real time, allowing the CG (computer graphics) virtual camera to be aligned. This gives the illusion of 3D animations or video games to appear to belong in the real world.
If you can’t see the embedded movie above see the videos page here.
Post partially inspired by this post at Turbulance and reblogged from this post at Network Research.
