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Time lines and maps have long been functional, simple and imbued with sometimes complex and dark subtexts. The map over time needs to change, to be adjusted. It also is something that, although pragmatically useful, is an artifice of man placed against the landscape in the same way that time and our selected system has been placed against something more open and malleable that is now constricted in something full of tension and ultimately arbitrary. There are borders. They are drawn along places but also along ideas. Each is an opening into both form and recognition and the darker places within humanity and human desire,fear and avarice. The need is for new systems of mapping and of time lines to capture events in time in their layers, multiple contexts, flow and in something more
International Journal of Arts and Technology (IJART)Call For papersSpecial Issue on: "Immersive Virtual, Mixed, or Augmented Reality Art"Guest Editors:Maria Roussou, makebelieve design & consulting, GreeceMaurice Benayoun, Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, FranceFor the past fifteen years, virtual reality (VR) and, more recently, mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) environments that immerse their participants in imaginary space, have emerged to define an area that blurs the lines between the seemingly different worlds of research, creativity, and technological practice, while exploring the interdependencies between the virtual and the physical. From the immersive, yet more esoteric, CAVE®-based projects of the mid-nineties to the contemporary open experiences spread out
I managed to get alonf to a meet the day on the 'Immersive experience' held at the ischool sim. The discussion was centred on the theme Is Second Life experience automatically immersive, simply because it is a virtual world? If not, what makes the experience immersive (or not)?Some of the commensts at the meeting such as the lure of surrealistic environments and the ability or not to capture emotions in immersive worlds made for a good start.Whether an experience is immersive or not or say the degree of immersoveness has much to do with the willingness of participants, and as someone pointed out; everyone finds this more immersive than say IM systems like MSN? So are good immersive experiences purely voluntary, which maybe you counter with tha fact that there are involuntary ones also, wh
Been working out some concepts that have been hitting me and gradually coming together...it is still very rough..I tried a few years ago to map time as intervals and corrolate it directly to a person moving in a space. It was intriguing, but ultimately to the artist and semi-scientist in me it was ultimately a dead end. Why? The measure was ultimately arbitrary as one cannot set something spatially that is a corollate between space, location and time in grid space and real space for the reason that the person will move at different speeds at different times and people move in different cadences and speeds relative to others anyway.So...What if the corrolate is instead a sort of non-euclidain geometry....a spherical topology in a sense of what is experienced in time and space and that can
Finally............One of My Dreams Have come True.As an Avid Gamer, I have always Dreamed About a Gaming Atmosphere,In which i could i Could Play Games as if I was really a Character of The Game.I Mean Real Life Running and Walking and Jumping And Everything else being Translated in to Virtual World.Where I could Jump to Pass a Hurdle Or Duck and Jump to Avoid A Bullet,James Bond Style ( Remember " Die Another Day",Where James Bond Uses a similar Technology for Training ).Think About How Cool it Would Be a Part Of the Game.Just Enter The VirtuSphere Wearing A head set and and A Gun Shaped joy stick in Hand and Start Shooting.No More Playing The Game...But Being In The Game.The VirtuSphere Also Supports Multiple Platforms And Interconnections.So You Can Play Not Only Single Player Games bu
The “third space” : vr+ar+locative media tropes as integrated immersive spatial interface(section of upcoming essay in NEME)There is a third space. It is not the physical world, it is not vr; it is both at once. The use of augmented reality to project information directly in the field of vision as one moves allows this immersive third space. The use of lense-fed data into the field of vision based on one's position in a space opens an area of spatial data, immersion and experiential interface. Locative media concepts allow methods of developing a spatial interface, spatial augmentation within discreet locations in a space and experiential interface.There is a lot of buzz currently about spaces like Second Life where avatars move in an open source architectural graphic world. There is an active dialog about the site specific information and experiential interface of locative media. There is growing development of prototypes and explorations placing virtual objects and recor
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Audiovisual artists and producers Addictive TV and new-media curators Cinefeel will present what promises to be a 2007 must-see spectacular celebration of visual music."Digital technologies have profoundly altered the way we produce and consume music and moving images. As the equipment becomes increasingly sophisticated and available, we are experiencing an explosion in personal expression." says film director Anthony Minghella "As part of the Sony PlayStation Season, Optronica is a colourful and vibrant celebration of this outpouring."Optronica explores the fusion of music and visual poetry, and features live audiovisual performances, screenings, illustrated talks, workshops and related special presentations. "Over the years we've witnessed the scene developing rapidly right across the world, with lots of artists from very different backgrounds all exploring the visual music genre. The global explosion of new visuals-oriented festivals also shows that there's a real appetite for thi
שנאמר ומלא ברכת ב' ים ודרום ירשהSefer HaBahir, verse 3 excerptTraditional interpretation: "Because it is written (Devarim 33:23): The filling is G-d's blessing possessing the Sea and the South."ברכת has a gematria of 622 and a digit sum of echad. The value 622 represents the 620 mitzvot contained within the unity of keter, together with the "two companions who never separate" [1].Derived from the root ברך meaning "power growth", it carries the same meaning as the name Tzemach, צמח which pertains to growth.Combining these two "growing" words together and performing some creative permutations, we have the phrase sequence:צב רם כח -> mobilize, elevate and bring to life, exert creative powerThe above sequence corresponds dynamically to concept of hashra'ah, and to its associated levels of immersive creative power: ohr, chayut and koach.Footnote:[1] Zohar 3:4a; R' Yitzchak Ginsburgh, The Hebrew Letters (p. 49)Technorati tags: Torah Talmud Torah J
