Plan and realize your Second Life Installation as an installation in Physical Space. Think carefully about how the concept will translate from the virtual environment to the physical environment. Since you may not be able to create all the surfaces and objects physically that you used virtually, what kinds of modifications will you have to make in order to get the same concept across?
Think about Margaret Morse's three concepts of:
1) the mobility of the viewer and the mirror of the screen
2) the de-centering of the viewer's orientation and identity
3) the viewer as "replicant"
Write a paragraph to accompany your installation, and attach it as a Note to your Second Life installation.
We will put up the final installations in TV Studio #1 for class on October 14.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Mixed Body
I was so intrigue when I saw the Mixed Body performance. I thought it was interesting how the pictures where to be projected in real time and the dancers interpret the movement of the fingertips. It really added to the show not knowing how the dancers were going to move. I thought it was so inventive to mix the movement with organization yet it was not organized because we did not know how the movement would be translated. The show was constantly changing with fresh pictures and fresh movement. To offer so many forms of expression the viewer was able to still focus on what was being presented in front of them. I think it was above interactive because it engaged the actor and the viewer.
Story Time
Installation Proposal
I intend to use the conventional idea of story telling but incorporate the elements of media to do it. I will design the initial beginning of the story in Second Life using music, words, and structures built in Second Life. The visitor will be able to immerse themselves in the story actively by touching the certain points, porting to websites and moving to different locations. It will never be clear what will happen next and how the next part of the story will be delivered.
An actual installation can exits in the real world with active walls, computers and music to heighten the effect. I chose this method because it incorporates mediums that I am interested in. I want to experiment with how people receive information, how a story can be more active, how the imagination can be worked and intensified.
I intend to use the conventional idea of story telling but incorporate the elements of media to do it. I will design the initial beginning of the story in Second Life using music, words, and structures built in Second Life. The visitor will be able to immerse themselves in the story actively by touching the certain points, porting to websites and moving to different locations. It will never be clear what will happen next and how the next part of the story will be delivered.
An actual installation can exits in the real world with active walls, computers and music to heighten the effect. I chose this method because it incorporates mediums that I am interested in. I want to experiment with how people receive information, how a story can be more active, how the imagination can be worked and intensified.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Reading and Assignment
Reading for Sept. 30
Body and Screen
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v021/21.1morse.html
Based on the ideas in this reading, re-write your Installation #1 proposal for your Second Life installation, AND START TO BUILD YOUR INSTALLATION IN SECOND LIFE. In your new Installation #1 proposal, please address Morse's ideas about ritualistic installation art in which the video screen is a mirror or window, a plane in space that is a reflection or an opening that offers "change" or transformation to the viewer/participant." Post your new proposal, and work on your installation in Second Life.
Re: Chris Marker's "L'ouvroir" in Second Life:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loisstavsky/3623142397/
Body and Screen
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v021/21.1morse.html
Based on the ideas in this reading, re-write your Installation #1 proposal for your Second Life installation, AND START TO BUILD YOUR INSTALLATION IN SECOND LIFE. In your new Installation #1 proposal, please address Morse's ideas about ritualistic installation art in which the video screen is a mirror or window, a plane in space that is a reflection or an opening that offers "change" or transformation to the viewer/participant." Post your new proposal, and work on your installation in Second Life.
Re: Chris Marker's "L'ouvroir" in Second Life:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loisstavsky/3623142397/
video-textured objects in Second Life
1. create an object
2. select the Edit Tool
3. select the object
4. go to Texture and click on the Texture icon
5. inside the LIBRARY, and inside TEXTURES, Select Default Media Texture
2. select the Edit Tool
3. select the object
4. go to Texture and click on the Texture icon
5. inside the LIBRARY, and inside TEXTURES, Select Default Media Texture
Web Cinema
What is web cinema?
Web cinema is the gateway to the future. It is completely different than any other type of cinema, allowing loads of different genres to the plate. There are only a few things that existed before web cinema that sort of resemble it. Those being shows such as "America's Funniest Home Video's", or any other show that uses peoples' home footage. Other than that, any web cinema now is something that is partially or completely new.
What could web cinema be?
Web cinema is sort of doing what the digital camera did to photography. It is opening up the world of cinema and video in general to a whole new world of people. I feel that there will be really serious web cinema sites that will emerge, and then there will be the ones that are only for webcam/phone, or there will be genre websites created. Eventually the amount of these videos uploaded to one site will be too much, and with things like Ipod Nano's coming equipped with a video camera, this might happen really soon. I feel that web cinema will have a more distinct place in the near future.
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