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SonoMorphis /

The Living Web
01 June- 23 June 2002
Opening: 01 June 2002

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.

Living web
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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".

maurice benayoun
mb@moben.net
http:// www.moben.net
http://www.z-a.net
http://www.quarxs.com
World Skin
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World skin movie (Requires Quicktime)

 

conFiguring the CAVE
SonoMorphis
21 July - 31 August 2002
Opening: 21 July 2002


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.

conFiguring the CAVE
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