week 5 A good resource

Time is flying and so are the students. Projects are rapidly coming together…

A great resource I came across enactment research:

Forum: qualitative social research

And this program sounds very interesting:

Philosophy – Narrative, enactivism and embodiment

 

Week 4: Lecture

Avatars?

 

Week 4: Second Life

Places to visit:

Simulations:

• Museums: Abyss Museum : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gun/82/43/81
• Photographic objects: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/216/209/40
• Svaga ecosystem: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Svarga/7/124/22

Emerging narratives and aesthetic Forms

• Hyperformalism: Dan Coyote, Code as visual art: http://slurl.com/secondlife/uvvy/85/209/26
• Lars New Art center: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Otherwhen/7/194/21
• Reactive Art Collective: Code as visual and behavioural art: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vaoetere/72/213/24
• ALife
• SL Internship, Alternate spacial designs: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dowden/14/35/62
• Physical-virtual Hybrids, Alternative interfaces: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/220/218/551
• Angrybeth (data-installations): http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Port/27/83/26
• Odyssey collective: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/120/48/26
• Netroots: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Yearly%20Kos%20Convention%204/229/53/24

Remediation examples:

• Designers from other media come to a new platform
• Research Tool For Another Media I.e. Photography to Painting
• Distribution For Another Media
• Photography: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hotgates/38/198/47
• Film : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sundance%20Channel/72/66/31
• Piano bar: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Broadway%20Live%20Island/28/245/40
• Machinima: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA (Robbie Dingo)
• Archival medium Exhibition: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hotgates/117/105/51
• Public space for openings: Ouvroir: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ouvroir/189/64/40

Resources

1. VirtualArtPedia: http://virtualartpedia.a.wiki-site.com/index.php/Main_Page
2. Not possible in IRL

Some SL Tools

• Avimator
• CyberextruderPoser
• plopp
• Script autogenerator

Alternate viewers:

• Onrez
• Windlight

 

Exercise 1: Space as Context of Presentation

Context both physical and social is a driving force in New Media works. For this exercise, students will use media already in hand; it can be of any visual form. Students will identify and realize a unique presentation of this work by experimenting with an installation and virtual version.

Installation version: Use multiple projections or use a single projection into a space of 12×12in. Use media previously shown in an alternate context. Describe original presentation (bring documentation if available).

Students should bring materials to serve as projection surfaces and image modifiers.

Virtual Version: Using a social media platform, distribute existing work.

Post a visual piece in a social media forum, such as flicker or Youtube.

After 2 weeks, examine how the introduction of social media has altered viewing of the work.

Blog entry: Category: context of presentation-space (at least 2 entries): In your blog, examine how the introduction of physical and virtual space has altered your understanding of the work. How does it change public engagement and how does participation change the nature of the work?

 

Examples: synthetic media

• Gaming activism: http://www.paxwarrior.com/home/index.php
• 911: http://www.selectparks.net/911survivor/911game.html
• Undersiege: http://www.underash.net/
• Medieval unreality: http://maia.enge.li/gamezone/lindart/index.html

 

Examples: GPS

• Visualization: universe: http://universe.daylife.com/
• Natural interactions: http://naturalinteraction.org/index.php?d=24&m=02&y=07&category=1
• http://www.localprojects.net/lpV2/projectoverview.php

 

Examples: distributed multimedia

Screen based interactivity

• Breathing earth: http://www.breathingearth.net/
• Ecological Foot print: http://www.ecofoot.org/
• Egypt: http://www.eternalegypt.org/EternalEgyptWebsiteWeb/HomeServlet?ee_website_action_key=action.display.context&language_id=1

 

Examples: content sharing

Telecommunication narratives

• web cams: http://www.earthcam.com/
• You are tv: http://www.youare.tv/video_list.php?keyword=Documentary
• Photovoice: http://photovoice.org/html/whoarewe/
• Garage cinema: http://garage.sims.berkeley.edu/marc.cfm

 

Examples: social networking

Small stories/micro-documentaries: wikis, vlogging documentary works

• Citizen storyteller
• Robert Greenwald: http://www.robertgreenwald.org/
• Alternet.com http://www.alternet.org/

 

Examples: distributed database narratives

• http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/