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Leonardo Electronic Almanac special issue we are looking for abstracts 2007-07-01 23:46:00 The deadline is nearing for the special issue
of Leonardo
I am co-editing. Anyone interested in spatial immersion and/or immersive visualization should submit or contact me if you have questions.Creative Data: Visualisation, Augmentation, Telepresence And ImmersionGuest Editors: Jack Ox, Jeremy Hight, and Erik ChampionLEACreativeData@astn.netEditorial Guidelines: http://leoalmanac.org/cfp/submit/index.aspDiscussion Group: leacreativedata-subscribe@googlegroups.comDeadline: 8 July 2007Call for papers - LEA Creative Data SpecialThe Leonardo Electronic
Almanac (ISSN No: 1071-4391) is inviting papers and artworks that deal with the emerging practice of data visualization as an immersive experience. Data has long been the property and domain of screen based collection, archiving, processing and interaction. The emergence of new processes, functionality and ways of interacting with information is opening up several new areas of great possibility in which the data allows newfound thematic a
sight,rain,storm,drought,donuts 2007-07-13 03:06:00 Working on a billion things. Bummed that the chance of thunderstorms passed us by after the driest winter on record. Some cool clouds blossoming up at times in other high grey while I waited 5 hours for my car to get fixed and became as close as one wants to be with a donut shop. Been mostly working on some writing and a possible project using ar and gps in exhibition as in "Immersive Sight" .Here is a quick little image I just made while taking a break. Let's hope this ad campaign does not become real soon although we are heading this way more and more now that CNN changed to a Fox clone to vie for ratings and real news officially died here in America.[tagname]
another image I have been working on.......... ... 2007-07-09 14:07:00 another image I have been working
on.......... how absurd all the intitial jingoistic ra ra talk was and how it all hangs so darkly over the morass that is Iraq and our involvement......and how so many soldiers in this war are getting injured and many may return to less care than in the past[tagname]
now,present,technology,new,new media,kitsch,time 2007-07-18 03:21:00 Future Shock (Orson Welles Intro)What is the complex relationship between time, technology and culture? Is something of another era that still resonates a mirror, a portal, a paralellism, an echo of the present (as tenuous and ephemeral as present,now and new are of course in their near ghostflesh in the face of contexts, time and progression)?W&S 030 - Video Moroso - V-V-V-V-V-VCRWhat is appropriation and sampling in relation to archaeology? How are artifacts colored by their time....its semiotics....its cliche's....and how it mutates in the rear view ? Spice Polaroid VictoriaWhat falls away like booster rockets on space flights, flash then dead and away in segmented time from a now? What is the progression and is it in pieces or is it more mote by mote, atom by atom erasure into the "now" skidding along into its ephemerality and end? How does this relate to dissent? To protest? To its images in time? What of today, july 18th is already disassemblin Read more:media
one of the things that happens to questioning and dissent and its semiotics in time and in image in (re)contexualitions 2007-07-21 20:15:00 It gets commodified......gutted into vacuous balloon cliche and distortion in mass media, pop culture and its opposing side(s)one of the things
that we now have with technology and web 2.0 is the way to purely disseminate opposing views, muckraking, investigative journalism, attempts at clarity in the face of the cyclops that increasingly is the major news outlet and this time...semiotics isn't just for art........or advertising for that matter......dissent is now seen often as the bloated corpse of previous incarnations of it....spun back deftly by those that wish to suppress it and belittle it...undercut...it is seen as disorganized, slow in reaction, reactionary, overly idealistic, biased, factionalized by pet causes, impotent and above all antiquated (ie:the familiar aging tropes of signs and liberals milling about in some unempowered and disconnected malaise)you tube.....flickr......social networks...im...rss.....feeds.....this has the potential for an immediacy, reach and org Read more:questioning
jeremy blake 2007-08-02 19:10:00 We had the same first name. We both went to the same school around the same time (Cal Arts). We had been distantly crossing in certain circles. Found out recently that one of my friends knew him at Cal Arts. I don't have anything really clever or wistful to say, but just need to say something. It is like something near me yet far off has died. He was one of us (us being new media folk,hybrid minds and works,part of the cal arts crew). Now "us" is a little smaller. I can't imagine what those moments on the train must have been like, yet again in a distant way I can get glimpses. I went through a pretty severe depression as a teen. My terminally ill mother attempted suicide just after my girlfriend and I broke up and my identity was weighted down with the teasing for being shy, for my bad leg, the usual teen angst mostly, but that bit more. I was 17. I kept thinking of my first girlfriend of sorts that was in the chemo ward they put me in when in second grade tests were done
orwell on the red phone (again) 2007-08-06 16:21:00 technology vs orwellian control.........this resonates in a whole new way at this moment in America legislation passing on invasive measures yet again....1984 Apple Macintosh commercial>and still the counterculture becomes cartoons spun against itself...nothing new here...just more sophisticated like so much else...Spock vs. Hippie - 60's CommercialsDali Pub Lanvinand it as if things don't have the same meaning when seen a certain way......what is semiotics if not the bastion of advertising and spin? how does the artist stand in the face of these arguably greater skill sets of metaphor, subtext and theme?is advertising the new avante garde?it is a collective that has now absorbed happenings, performance art, new media, design, locative media and all else with a clean precision.....and with clarity and a sense of the ubiquitous that drops the audience's guard...[tagname] Read more:phone
architecture of narrative 2007-08-13 02:46:00 Working on a series of visualizations of the layered structure and forms of narrative as presented as a layered graphic. The unseen is laid out clean like in this case a floorplan for a multi-story residence with basement. I want to work more with typography in this regard, but also in transposing textuality and form and design as there is a clear translation in both of the unseen as well as the structure within.[tagname]
hurricane dean and barren soul of freeway culture 2007-08-26 17:02:00 So we have an upper level low, a shred of moisture from the ghost flesh (vapor) of deanand the water from the demise of a thunderstorm complex that once covered Sonora Mexico in clouds reaching the highest atmosphere and a spoke of energy (vorticity maximum) and it is coming ashore in peak heat of the day into an almost clear sky (heat energy rising back skyward..ideal for updrafts)..............and....nadathe pretty concentric circles of tiny mosquito sized dropsare dancing across the nearby pool......errant geometry from soft impacts from a gauze of cloud so thin that the ever present sun is shining through it.........this place just had the driest winter ever and now it is like some sort of deflection sent the rain away.......like the collective wrong turns with cell phones in hand of the percentage of angeleno cliche's has wafted skyward in some ugly pollen/locust cloud and it demands residence and has repelled warm rains.....I went to a funeral for a dear friend's father yeste Read more:hurricane
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some fiction I have been working on based on my childhood into college years set in the rooms of the house and the weight in their spaces 2007-08-30 16:31:00 Surely There Will Be FlowersThis place and all of its rooms once held many voices, noises, guests, family events, the chaos of days. There are sounds, signs of life, but a collective silence now drives televisions in two of its rooms. The woman in the back bedroom keeps it on as a companion and a light from somewhere else. The boy upstairs just cuts the quiet with it. Ina few hours the delivery man will rumble up the drive in his brown truck, bring flowers to leave at the door but for now it is mostly quiet here.There is the sound of a bathtub, filling, a claw foot, white as bone porcelain. It is coming from the upstairs bathroom. There is the sound of a hand testing the temperature. There is then the sound of a hand pulling back with little drops of waters falling. Steam now. A squeak of knob as it turns. With heavy steps an older woman, possessor of the thick fingers and red, red nails approaches the bath. Splashing as her toes hit the water, right foot just off.A foot Read more:working
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got it! autobiography of absence as presence...of what never came to pass 2007-09-15 16:34:00 mirroredsteps.blogspot.comHave begun work on a detailed autobiography
as a blog, but of the present in the places and periods in my life that never came to pass,occupied by some unborn other me of if things had gone that way, how they exist in some lost ether of possibility and thus still have some form to describe, of what is not....and its weight, measure.............it has documentation in the form of "photos" of the unformed artifacts of such moments......places.....people unmet .............of the places decoupled from a life by choices or turns away ....just posted about the world of the phd I got rejected for at Rochester 8 years ago and of the hungry student finishing his dissertation that would have occupied these eyes, these hands at this moment........the above image is a photo of the room mates he had in 2000 at new years drunk in the snow (all unborn of course....just like the photo..)the blog link is the one for my old one that I deleted..... feel free to check it o Read more:absence
narratives of absence. 2007-09-12 21:40:00 Toying with ideas of narratives of absence
. How can narratives be constructed with all the tropes but describing what isn't there, what is lost, what could have been, alternate possibilities forever unborn due to chains of events or singular choices back in the past. Can a story world be formed that is textually or graphically and aurally indicative purely of what is not..described in deep detail of what could have been or simply is not to be in sequence and in immersion? Glad to see that the Discussion Group on Immersive Visualization on google is getting going. Should be interesting.[tagname]
a few lost pages 2007-09-25 01:21:00 src="http://bp3.blogger.comideas in time......whiteoutcondition/Rviwvff8kaI/AAAAAAAAAPA/79qO0/s400/ideas+in+time2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOevaporation..TO_ID_5114031706835030434" /> As I moved away he grew smaller and smaller, big black shoes soon becoming just ant sized dots, the the whole corner just a bit of texture along a single street, a stain in the snow. I was just walking early in the morning to work on another cold morning. The experiment of walking in the cold was invigorating, nicely off kilter in a way, freezing of course in a way like needles on my nose (couldn't cover everything), an adventure in a way I guess and it brought me to him. Six in the morning and he was fused to a pole with ice, his mouth open like words were going to tumble out in cold brief clouds. His eyes were open like he was still waiting for the ride that didn't come. I looked closer and saw more little horrors. His eyes were open sewers, his nose hairs were iced over like the fe
never to walk 2007-10-12 01:17:00 this is from my new blog project "nothing at all (here)" that is an autobiography of what never came to be in my life....who the people are not now that would have used these eyes, hands...and their unformed or illformed artifacts (mirroredsteps.blogspot.com)Never To WalkHe is not rolling along in his wheelchair looking out the window of his small house by the entry ramp. His parents in 1969 did not opt for the experimental surgery, first of its kind....risky the doctors said...and unsure to work...The man of the boy above is not feeling his hands along the metal wheels as they spiral toward a view of the grass freshly watered.The sun is not along the glass into his small living room as he lets out a small noise as he thinks of taking steps, a limp, scars like small railroad tracks,the lines and worn old thoughts thin as window glass.[tagname]
autobiography of another unborn me / the math of possibility somewhere 2007-10-18 17:23:00 It is a late morning, a city, a sky of mixed clouds, it is a chain of minutes passing like box cars, it is metal, stone, cloth, oxygen, steel....It is blood, skin, a swarm of memories, a crowd of self....He is sitting on couch with a soda ..."he" "at"he is full of regrets: dropping out of college, never moving away, never doing anything that was not warm and soft as the worn couch and safe as his tv dinner clicking away into simple fruition as another meal in the next room...The night with friends when they suggested that college wasn't for him after he was on academic probation and the fact that he almost failed high school remain implanted warmas though just uttered across a back yard on a dull July night.He is 37 years old and works as a market research cold caller.........he rubs his belly and tries to remember the name of that woman he briefly was friends with in San Francisco before he dropped out....He is comfortable now dull nubs come in slow dull pains at times sure, but he n Read more:autobiography
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Fires here in southern california 2007-10-23 23:05:00 My wife and I went to Camarillo on Saturday for a little one day mini honeymoon (got married oct 6 ) and awoke Sunday to sheets of dust and small branches flying past the windows. We ate at a funky little Mexican restaurant as the wind blew the metal roof so hard that it was groaning and twisting. We drove to Santa Clarita to see my old friend and 34 north collaborator Jeff Knowlton and as we went to lunch we saw a thin haze....in the time it took for our meal to come it had gone red black......it was the Agua Dulce fire and we could see distant flames.... we left as it flew 15 miles in a few hours and burned into the south end of Jeff's Neighborhood of Canyon Country. It almost burned my father's house where the wedding was. Then it became apparent as to the scope of all this. The total lost homes is nearing 2000The total evacuation is nearing one millionThe smoke covers hundreds of miles just as hundreds of acres have burnedthe winds are calming down but the larger fi
looking at the window (another alternative present's autobiography ) 2007-11-12 16:53:00 The man born from the boy above is not up late reflecting on his life. He has not been a Psychologist for several years. He has not earned a private practice, a nice office on Ventura boulevard, a receptionist and a view of the cars whizzing past the courtyard. He has also not had those nightmares. He does not dream of others moments that he can not speak of or of drowning slowly in storms at sea. He did not take the ability to interpret symbolism, body language and personalities and behavior and make it his career all this time.He did not carry the ballast of other's pain. At least not this way.He changed his major back to English after that one semester nearly 20 years ago. The decision came oddly out of a clear blue day of calm sitting on the campus lawn eating a salad. His mother was dying. She had attempted suicide just 2 years before. This brought many dreams of winds blowing out windoglass into snow in slow motion onto her...he unable to stop it.......of her mouth that for many Read more:autobiography
from nothing at all (here): a return to typography and losing fingers on that ship 2007-12-16 22:47:00 detailed painting given to him by his friend of the boat they were on together until the injuryHe is not working on letter forms again. An unseen swarm of molecules is not twisting and bending like locust in arcs and turns, atoms not amassed in a pen, a piece of paper, a worn chair, and 8 fingers.There was a boat in 1989. It had a captain and small crew. It was and may still be some color if not under the cold waters or long splintered against some dull rocks.The men would have been faces, arms, legs, names, but they are not and due to two minutes across a phone line will never be more than a fog if even that.There was to be a 3 month agreement. It was found by a friend in the back of a magazine with a name of some kind and a readership of some number, these details forgotten, submerged as unimportant in time along with so many other things.The length of several phone calls with the friend may still remain in old records, perhaps on oversized floppy disks in storage, or in a newer tra
locative media applications of geometric event time measure and topology 2008-02-16 14:56:00 The concept in a literal (and ambitious) sense is a possible new tool for time lines in many fields and their documentation, study and analysis. The analysis is of a period of time and a complex array of information/data within that period time in its parts to whole in a multi-layered and active/fluid in progression way.In terms of locative media
it can push the verticality/spatiality of locative data in some interesting and key ways. The complexity of an event
as a space can be shown as fluid, shifting and in a way that is clear as an immersive visualization. There are many aspects of what occurs in time, of what informs it, comes from it, feeds and shapes it that are spatial and needing of a visualization. You could see the aspects of a space in time and in a way that could create a
formulating some basic constructs for possible variables and dynamics of geometric event time 2008-02-12 22:39:00 H/D = heighth or densityW= width expansion line or more formalistic "Edge"T1,T2 etc....= multiple scalings of topologyI= input (data,vectors,math to geometric callibration)O= output ( output patterning,data recognition into systemization of measure(s))The multiple topologies is an algorythmic modelling of smaller to larger data perturbations within an event
and time.....this can account for larger to smaller scaling and surface and edge adjustments as one moves through the data/space/event time. This appears to be important as it can work on several levels to eliminate the arbitrary in spatial to numerical corrolations. The input/output model also goes into an interesting comparison to a cumulus or cumulus to cumulonimbus cloud in its event lifetime, dynamics, measure and multipl
more notes on time as horizontal and vertical as well as width of event time 2008-02-08 18:08:00 Super busy lately with stuff. Have about 15 pages of further notes since the last post. Will touch on a few points as I keep working.Time (as we quantify and thus "tame" it in measure)= a man made gridSpace in latitude and longitude ( as we quantify it)= a man made gridMath = man made forms and grid and non grid spaceexperiential memory= non gridded depth and density within memory components (image,spatialization,semantics,logic,distortion/non distortion/associative properties,storage to trigger....)So event
time has space, measure and density, yet is plastic and fluid beyond geometric forms and line segments. Thus, a "true" time line would be a fluid shifting 3d immersive space within movement through its segmentation/striation by its very nature besides the emotional component of
mapping time in immersive 3d ...locative media...new media...augmented reality...mapping.. 2008-01-07 21:03:00 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 Read more:media
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Thriled to be a keynote speaker at "In Transition", to present "nothing at all (here) at Elo conference and 2 essays newly published 2008-03-11 23:25:00 A break from time visualizations....Happy to report that 2 essays
have been published
."All that rises will dissipate"www.slashseconds.org/issues/002/003/articles/jhight2/index.phpThis essay compares the doom of utopia to the desire for young artists to make manifestos ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------"The Folly of Maps"www.sarai.net/publications/readers/sarai-reader-07-frontiers/229-231_jeremy.pdfThis essay looks at the danger and ultimate ephemerality of mapping and its borders in the face of Geology, Weather, Time and History, and the danger within its measure as it has brought out the darker desires. Also how this can be true with ideas.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Also 2 other bit Read more:conference
immersive 3d mapping and event time 2008-04-05 22:51:00 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 event
s in time in their layers, multiple contexts, flow and in something more Read more:immersive
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