The
Living Web
01 June- 23 June 2002
Opening: 01 June 2002
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by Christa Sommerer,
Laurent Mignonneau and Roberto Lopez-Gulliver
Developed at ATR Media
Information Science Research Lab, Kyoto and IAMAS Institute of Advanced
Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan. Supported by the Telecommunications
Advancement Organization of Japan.
This CAVE -based interactive
installation explores the extraordinary potential of the world-wide
web as data and information medium. Today information on the Internet
is presented in a standard fashion, as defined by the currently
available image browsers. In "The Living Web" users can immerse
themselves physically into this image and sound information streamed
"live" from the Internet. Microphones pick up the users' conversations
and use them to generate and download corresponding image and sound
file from the Web. Users can furthermore interact with these data
through intuitive interfaces and explore their content in more detail.
"The Living Web" presents a novel system for intuitive, immersive
and entertaining information creation and retrieval.
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World
Skin
27 June -17 July 2002
Opening: 27 June 2002 |
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by Maurice Benayoun and
Jean-Baptiste Barrière.
This work is shown in
cooperation with Ars Electronica Center Linz, Austria.
The interactive installation
features a "photo safari" into the Land of War. Equipped with cameras
visitors move through a three-dimensional space: A selection of
photographs and news images from various war scenarios presents
a universe imbued by mute violence. We are invited to "shoot" our
snapshots, whose topics are extracted from the universe of the installation.
Available worldwide, they can be retrieved from the Website of World
Skin. Visitors may take home the prints of their "Safari".
World skin movie (Requires Quicktime)
conFiguring
the CAVE
SonoMorphis
21 July - 31 August 2002
Opening: 21 July 2002 |
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conFiguring
the CAVE by Agnes Hegedüs, Jeffrey Shaw, Bernd Lintermann, Leslie
Stuck
SonoMorphis INTERACTIVE
INSTALLATION WITH GENETIC GRAPHICS AND SOUND
by Bernd Lintermann (graphics)
and Torsten Belschner (sound).
An organic object is projected in front of the visitors. By means
of a control mechanism the user can rotate the object in all directions
and observe it from various perspectives. Control sliders allow
the viewer to vary diverse parameters of the object. The graphics
and sound are inseparably linked to each other. In this way the
space is always filled with new audiovisual bodies. "SonoMorphis"
represents the attempt to creatively apply the results of our studies
in open computer systems. In this work the interaction follows the
evolutionary principle of mutation of the graphic and acoustic structure
and selection from six available variants. On the visual level,
specific formal patterns that have been extracted from the natural
world are combined arbitrarily and generate creations that are both
familiar and yet have never been seen before. The momentary state
of the graphic objects controls the sound level in "SonoMorphis".
The parameters of the graphics must be interpreted from acoustical
viewpoints in such a way that a musical structure emerges from them.
In this way automatic compositions arise, the results of which are
functions of their components and are variable in the details of
their contours, complexity, and their behaviors. The overlapping
of visual levels and sound levels produces an open structure that
can be continually and endlessly configured in new ways by each
viewer.
These installations are
shown in cooperation with ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.
conFiguring the CAVE
provides the visitor of the CAVE with pictorial insights into seven
worlds: materiality, language, the macrocosm, association, union,
person and emergence. A mechanical doll that can be moved in space
on a screen facilitates navigation through these geographical, cultural,
historical, and body-related worlds. The presentation involves all
the senses, fascinating the participant through hyper-real 3D-effects;
the simulations of space and body almost seem to cut through the
viewer's own body, a sensation which is intriguing.
Shown in alternation
with conFiguring the CAVE until the end of August 2002 Bernd Lintermann's
and Torsten Belschner's work SonoMorphis allows the visitor ample
room for interaction. SonoMorphis is an interactive installation
presenting genetic graphic and sound. The concept is based on the
idea of creating an instrument with graphic and sonic dimensions
whose variety and flexibility are capable of responding precisely
and subtlely to the technique of the instrumentalist. Inside the
CAVE, when the sound immerses into the depth of three-dimensional
representation, the corresponding visual component moves away from
the viewer and vice versa. You see and hear moving forms activated
solely by sound. The artists created with SonoMorphis new sonic
experiences that are simultaneously futuristic and historic, simple
and monumental, phenomenological and mind-altering.
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