:: Saturday, September 13, 2003 ::

3SSE (3D Spatial Sound Experience) created by Marcus Quarta, George Tang, Teng Chue Swee and Jaewook Shin was an academic project that featured in the Lab 3d exhibition that took place a few months back in Manchester England. The exhibition was reviewed at the time but I feel the project deserves to be reviewed in its own right.

3SSE uses the latest in Macromedias Director to create an interactive and navigable environment. 3D and controlled sound (simulated stereo; panning etc.) combine to create a sparse landscape, almost Tron like in its simplicity, which is populated by bizzare pulsating creatures. "A sound is attached to each of the creatures, which is then looped and played in time with the other sounds. By moving through the soundspace the user mixes the sounds together."

It should be noted that this is a demo and while it is an adventurous project that does interesting things with 3D in Director (one of the few I've seen to date) it lacks the immersiveness it strives and needs to achieve. Hopefully this is a student project that will develop further.

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Here is a site that was sent to us a while back, and I still have not been able to figure out: Kinema Ikon by Kaliman, was actually part of the Venice Biennale this past summer. I went back to the site several times and could not fully understand its purpose (aim, angle, etc.); however, I do think its interface is quite interesting which deems it, in my view, for at least a posting on the daily log. Enjoy.
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Bored? What to do when reaching this state of mind is questioned by Brooke Knight , who is currently featured at boringart.com. Official announcement:
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"We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the _expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds. -Now it would be important to know: What is the dialectical antithesis to boredom?" [D2,7]


Brooke Knight addresses to this very concept of boredom in 'An investigation of things you could be doing rather than watching this piece' - 'An Hour of Your Time' with a vertigo of overlapping ideas and suggestions.

There is nothing you can do but watch! You cannot stop the time! Isn't this the grandeur of any contemplation?

Indifference before the very objects (of art) sic. while you could be thinking of all the 'other things' 'to feat'. Would you have the luxury of 'taking time' instead of 'taking notes'? Will you resist for an hour?


"Boredom is always the external surface of unconscious events. For this reason, it has appeared to the great dandies as a mark of distinction. Ornament and boredom." [D2a,2]

Fugit hora!

Are you ready to become Boring?!
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Body experience keeps being redefined by new technology. In the past I mentioned Collective Presence, an online project combining reality TV aesthetics with performance art, most closely related to Stelarc's pieces consisting of machines directly affecting the human body according to internet traffic. (See our backlogs of Sunday February 16, 2003 for the actual review.)

Issues of the body and technology are brought to our attention once again by WiFi-SM. Like the prementioned pieces, this one also questions the role of technology in human experience. More directly connected to Stelarc's work, the WiFi-SM project claims to sell a patch which lets the user "feel pain" according to searches made on the internet. One can customize the words that will cause the pain, in order to fulfill a personal guilt-trip; all for only $49.99.

The major difference between WiFi-SM and the previous projects is that both Stelarc and Collective Presence do perform the actions they profess, while WiFi-SM is only a webpage promoting a myth that is quickly dismantled. Some netizens might be disappointed by such reality; but in a way, the webpage functions as a well calculated commentary on how some people are always looking for ways to change or there I say improve themselves via technology: If it is not losing weight with pills, or burning fat with special cremes, it is a patch that in other circumstances could help stop the smoking habit, but in this case creates a myth of self-improvement for global culture by proposing pain as a meaningless liberal conduit of humanitarianism. There might be a good possibility that this "patch idea" will be actually put into practice not in relation to pain, but simply for downloading information straight to the brain; it already sounds better than having a permanent microchip installed in one's head.
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As a follow up to a previous posting on DNA and Computers, here is a concise set of essays provided by Brandon Keim demistifying many of the popular stories about DNA and its relationship with Computer technology. His posting at nettime is a response to a particular quote found in slashdot.
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Joy Garnett's The Bomb Project is one of the most concise online resources offering information on nuclear bombs. Now the website is also offering a forum where people can announce and discuss any type of online material dealing with nuclear issues. Postings not related to nuclear bombs will be deleted.

sources: rhizome and Syndicate
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Five days left to submit material to Stuttgart Filmwinter ­ Festival for Expanded Media. Prizes amounting to 11,000 Euros. Press Release:

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Target Blank - the 17th edition of the Stuttgart Filmwinter is looking for innovative, critical, and unknown posititions in media art and film culture.
After the record of 1300 submissions at the last festival the organizer Wand 5 cordially invites filmmakers, media producers, and artists to submit
their work. Productions in the field of film, video, internet/www, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, installation, and performance are very welcome. Internet projects can be submitted online. For further information and entry forms please refer
to our web site: filmwinter.de

Besides the competiton with prizes amounting 11.000 Euros the Filmwinter offers various special programmes, lectures and performances.


contact:
Wand 5 im Filmhaus
Friedrichstr. 23 A
D ­ 70174 Stuttgart
Germany

Telephone: +49-711-226 91 60
Fax: +49-711-226 91 61
mail: wanda@wand5.de
URL: http://www.wand5.de

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Le programme des activités de perfectionnement du Conseil de la culture des régions de Québec in collaboration with La Chambre Blanche is currently sponsoring a juried online video exhibit, for up to six participants which includes a $95 fee (I believe that is Canadian Dollars, but you can check when applying). Press Release:
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Le programme des activités de perfectionnement du Conseil de la culture des régions de Québec et de Chaudière-Appalaches pour la session automne 2003 est maintenant disponible. Les 29 et 30 novembre prochains, le Conseil et LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE offrent "Compression vidéo pour le Web", une formation à la fois pratique et théorique.

La formation se divise en deux étapes et a pour objectif de stimuler la réflexion sur la création d'oeuvres Web tout en dotant les participants de connaissances pratiques, susceptibles de favoriser le développement de leurs projets de création sur le Web. Pour l'étape d'exploration, les participants seront appelés à travailler en équipe.

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La formation est offerte à LA CHAMBRE BLANCHE les 29 et 30 novembre 2003, de 9h à 17h. Le nombre maximal de participants est de 6 personnes. Le coût est de 95 $ (taxes incluses).

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For more information visit La Chambre Blanche and Culture Quebec or call: (418) 523-1333
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Un projet j'ai vu depuis plusiers mois mais completement oublie juste a l'autre soir quand j'ai recevoir un annonce de Marika Dermineur du le collectif Incident est Googlehouse cree par Marika Dermineur & Stephane Degoutin.

"La Googlehouse est un dispositif qui construit en temps réel une maison à partir d'images de pièces d'habitation (living room, tv room...) trouvées sur internet via un moteur de recherche d'images." Le moteur de recherche est Google bien sur, toujours un favourite des artistes et utilise dans plusiers projets comme onewordmovie et The World Report (aussi par un membre de le collectif incident).

Googlehouse est en principle, de 3d cree comme au debut et connu par le plus par de gens dans de jeu 3d comme Doom. Ici on voir un chambre, un mur avec un rayon remplir de livres, sauf dans le image dans le 3d, il y un image avec lumiere et ombre qui en fete suggerer toute ces objets. Il y a pas un image pour chaque cote de chaque objet. Googlehouse utilise cette meme principle minimal d'images sauf ici chaque mur utilise un image choisi par contexte et pas par contenu (decide par le genre de chambre) dans le recherche d'images. Un recherche pour le chambre "tv room" par example peut trouve n'importe genre de image quellequand autre a decide est relie au cette phrase.

Le result est un espace decide / cree / construire par le reseau. Un espace graphique qui montre au meme temps, comment le gens fait un lien entre l'images ils utilises sur leur sites, le "meta-information" qui classifier l'images et comment le moteur de recherche trouver et organise ces images. Un espace toujours en flux.

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Intelligent Agent's latest installment is out, featuring reviews by Leigh Clemons, Patrick Lichty, Christiane Paul, and Dena Eber.
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Baltic the Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and Crumb, the curatorial resource are announcing a day long seminar on Data-based art to take place September 18, 2003 from 10am - 6pm at the Baltic centre.

"This one-day seminar on information structures in new media art will outline the historical context and current landscape of database-driven art. It will feature presentations by curators, theorists, designers and artists, including Cornelia Sollfrank (G), Steve Dietz (USA), Graham Harwood (UK), Sebastian Campion (NL) and BALTIC artist-in-residence Lev Manovich (USA). Chaired by Sarah Cook."

For more information please see the Baltic website.

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Not a new piece of work but little known to my knowledge, "Wrong Browser" is yet another artists re/mis - interpretations of how web browsers should or could work. Yet don't let this dissuade you from having a look at these small downloadable applications. Applications as art or art as applications, they are some of the most successfull examples of this very particular genre of the cross over between net.art and application art - "browser art", (but is this genre "browser art" or is it when we manipulate / dismantle / subvert and totally control an existing browser e.g. the work of "jimpunk"??).

Available for mac (classic only I think) and pc, well worth downloading. Personal favourite ".org".

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Here are the latest additions to the New Media Fix:

Culturebase.net is an online resource featuring international artists, much of the work deals with media at large.

www.unbehagen.com will create art out of your symptoms.

This week's Recommended Fix is the media lab ljudmila.org
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