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spatializing mathematics, depth of field, the many grids 2007-05-29 02:43:00 A calm.Enjoyed the long weekend. Spent a lot of quality time with my fiance. Nice to peer up from grids
and drawings and work. Mathematics and computation is really akin to graphic design, composition in painting and drawing and sight. When I studied game theory many years ago I looked a lot at pattern recognition and the creation of meta-theory and meta-resonance of specifics in the data in a field. I worked on some unified field theories that I thankfully discarded. It was a summer of numbers, poetic almost synaesthetic sense of them as predictors, predicators, of taking texts into focus in algorithms spun through database. I have long enjoyed some odd things like being able to see films in my mind from music as a kid after being sick a lot with allergies as a boy that have long since gone away. I could reset the variables midstream and let them go as the various individual instruments and tonalities in the music played and painted shapes and colors or film scenes. Now I Read more:mathematics
spatializing mathematics 2007-05-23 01:27:00 Been working more on spatializing mathematics
. Working on some further study,sketches and spec type stuff. It is interesting how it lends itself to visualization in so many ways that are variations of the grid in design and composition as well as the unseen grid with gps.[tagname]
remembering---steps 2007-05-18 01:08:00 been working on writing about my childhood experience of re-learning how to walk and walking with leg braces for my other blog....changed the title to remembering steps
measaboymovement.blogspot.com/this is the title image I just made....mother's day passing makes me miss my mother who passed away a few years ago from multiple sclerosis..[tagname]
immersive-sightinthethirdspace 2007-05-08 13:06:00 ......really feel that this is one of my proudest moments in terms of theory.........was in this for months with notebooks full of drawings, notes, schematics, text sections and annotations.................immersion indeed....NeMe (www.neme.org) has published "Immersive Sight Withinthe Third Space: Augmentation and Spatial Interface in exhibition space"Read the complete text athttp://neme.org/main/645/immersive
-sight[http://neme.org/main/645/immersive-sight][tagname]
writingaboutmychildhoodcerebralpalsy 2007-05-04 23:50:00 Just started a new essay and image work connected to this blog. I was born with Cerebral Palsy and was to be in a wheelchair for life. My parents approved a surgery that was new as there was no other option. I had 20 surgeries in the first two weeks after I was born to reshape my twisted right foot from within. No one knew if it would work. It did. I wore leg braces as a child, took my first steps in front of crying and cheering nurses in a hospital hallway at 3 and a half. I taught myself in the mirror how to relearn walking in junior high to try to reduce the cruel teasing that came my way for being different. I still limp, have scars on my leg and have muscle damage but otherwise am considered "normal". I have long wanted to write about this period in my life and how it unfortunately coincided with my mother's spiral into paralysis from Multiple Sclerosis (she was always the person who was most encouraging for me with my difficulties so this was intensely hard ).I a
The “third space” : vr+ar+locative media tropes as integrated immersive spatial interface 2007-05-03 03:33:00 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
Immersive sight within the third space soon to be published 2007-04-21 03:55:00 Completed the essay on immersive sight in the third
space (integrating ar,vr,locative media concepts and apps, graphic design, interface design, architectural theory and new media in a physical space of exhibition). Super jazzed. It will be published
soon in NEME. It feels as significant to me as "narrative archaeology" did. Will publish a section here and a link when it is published. A few sections:Immersive spatial graphic designEducation in ar environment in a physical space: spatialized interactive mathematicsImmersive interaction integrating architectural analysis of aesthetics, spatial relationships and tension and viewer movement in a spaceFeels odd to be up for air after such an intense period of schematics, sketches, notes and edits. Now working on a project with lisa tao on mapping alternate histories of los angeles and san francisco and writing narratives of what would have been the banal of the city scape. Interesting so far. Excited to be a keynote speaker at a co Read more:within
hybrid viewing spaces :new exhibition forms 2007-03-20 15:30:00 Working on a new essay. Well, several. This one has been on my mind lately. The gist:How about using elements of augmented reality,location specific data,new media and elements of second life type vr objects at once?Picture this:A museum has a new exhibition that is a collaboration between new media artists and works and vr artists and works and physical artists (painting,video, etc..). as well as with scientists in science and natural history exhibitions.. The viewer sees with augmented reality lenses both the physical space of exhibition and the virtual at once. There can be new media works that float fully functional in set positions so they are both non-traditional in form and presentation and in collision and entry into its environs as of a virtual space and yet the physical.The key of the exhibition would be the interplay of both at once. How would one or several new media artist work together either new in a cross-disciplinary art form of both virtual form, new media wo Read more:spaces
further break from theory....thoughts about walking.. 2007-03-14 16:53:00 Interesting how all these years it never hit me how much my work now is influenced by what I went through as a kid. I was teased mercilessly as a kid in junior high because of my cerebral palsy, my scars and dead muscle on my right calf and especially my limp.I had kids I didn't know often walking behind me exaggerating my slight drag of my right leg with a dark poisonous comedy so endemic of that age. This was after the leg braces were off (that period of course, was more of that morose, open mouthed fascination that is quite a different ugly animal..).I spent many days before my mirror. I relearned how to walk. I found that if I exaggerated my movement of my right leg just so, made an effort to lift it that tiny measurement that made that tiny drag, the teasing decreased. This became second nature.I hadn't thought of this in many, many years, essentially forgot about it until 15 years ago. I was at some art party and got nervous. I felt intimidated by some people in the cro Read more:thoughts
a break from theory for a bit.. 2007-03-01 03:44:00 Starting to write about my early life experience of being born with a severely disfigured foot and leg ....the surgery that somehow worked and made me walk where otherwise I was sure to spend my life in a wheelchair. Also of how my mother died a few years ago after a 20 year struggle with multiple sclerosis. It has been hard but it is time to touch upon these painful, yet hugely formative experiences in my life.Had 20 or so surgeries in the first 2 weeks after I was born and wore leg braces as a child. It is amazing how seeing things from that perspective led me into a life long fascination with movement, space, identity and how we live together in places and above all of story. Working on a bunch of locative and new media stuff of course, but now finally seeing the story of my struggle as a boy and being there for my mother as she saw her body consumed by her illness.[tagname]
happy new year...thoughts on space, perception and language.... 2007-01-06 22:32:00 Had a nice vacation in nor cal with my fiancee. Saw Leslie Rule and Paula Levine for coffee. We had a great conversation. Saw again how cities change in context when leaving and returning and how places and your memory are so fluid, so situational and contextual even in their hard facts and paths. It reminds me of how when I was a student I would fly home from sfo and once I left the ground, San Francisco abstracted within me, seemed distant in time, blurred in detail as L.A already did after leaving a few months before. The feeling in mid flight was of a sort of enlightened amnesia, a sort of despatialization......like my only understanding was the dimensions of the plane and my weight on the seat and against the window, the texture of the blanket on me, the length of the walkway to the tiny little psuedo bathroom.......all else was wiped clean.........the transitory......It also reminds me of how an article in a science journal talked about new developments in laser eye sur Read more:thoughts
, language
end of 2006 approaching....ramble 2006-12-29 23:12:00 The year is ending. Time to reflect. Soon will be the parades of shrink wrapped micro-nostalgia highlight reels that fuse the breadth of a globe and 365 days into something as small as a postage stamp or something on a spoon to spread across bread. Words fail. There is so much to say. It all forges only platitudes. The year for me personally has been a soup of highs and lows (as it was/is surely for everyone). There have been incandescent small moments, pastoral calm, moments of dread,fear, a creeping feeling of history in books as yet unwritten to paint great ugliness of parts of this time, these days, of paragraphs as yet hanging astronautic........feelings of being small as an atom or dust mote ........and yet of hope born of the seeming imminence of a pendulum swing, of the countless invisible ghosts that read blogs and letters, pass each other on the street...those strangers that you glance at in passing .....those whisps of being...those other lives passing.....maybe the
The "digital wild" panel discussion is underway ... 2006-12-19 05:50:00 The "digital wild" panel discussion is underway at google groupsdigital wild group at google groupswould love to see more people join inthis is my latest post: The essence of meteorology is in monitoring multiple layers of flux,variation, decay cycles, emergences, and past, present and future. Thatis why it is seen at casual glance as such an "inexact science". This isalsowhat many like myself have studied for many years. I originally since ayoung child to teen years studied to be a research meteorologist andplanned to get a phd and even had the application packet for theuniversity of colorado at Boulder at 14 in a drawer just to look at andget excited about.The simple cumulus cloud, the cottonball fluff, is the most familiar andmost reproduced cloud form. It is read as semiotic of calm, placid,pastoral, of pleasing symmetry and of quiet days symbolized aloft. Italso is infinitely complex. It has an average lifespan of 15 minutes. Itis composed of bouyant air parcels culled
essay about my work out now in Leonardo "Digital Wild" edition 2006-12-08 01:23:00 Excited. Have read the other essay
s and it is a strong group. The range is impressive too. Will be doing one of the online chats soon and will be part of the discussion group.the link:leoalmanac.orgGuest editors Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas have culled a neat collection of explosive essays from the hefty haul of initial contributions received and emerged with a two-themed anthology on Wild Nature and the Digital
Life, which delves into the collaboration of art and nature.In Dene Grigar’s editorial, she explains that the first volume explores a range of issues relating to the “Emergent and Generative” in nature, the digital, and art. The second wave of another four papers, edited by Sue Thomas, features essays that are “Performative and Locative” in scope.Peter Hasdell starts the proverbial ball rolling, with his contribution, Artificial Ecologies: Second Nature Emergent Phenomena in Constructed Digital – Natural Assemblages. Participants are asked to develop projects that Read more:Leonardo
BOSTON HERALD ARTICLE ON POWER OF YOU TUBE VIDEOS TO AFFECT VOTING AND PUBLIC OPINION ON ISSUES 2006-11-14 21:21:00 You Tube video has big impact in voting boothBy Brett ArendsBoston Herald Business ColumnistThursday, November 9, 2006 - Updated: 06:33 AM ESTYouTube didn’t even exist in the last election - and it may help decide the Senate. Consider: U.S. Sen. George Allen’s race in Virginia hinged on a few thousandvotes. How many people downloaded his infamous “Macaca” gaffe - where he tossed the apparent racial slur at an opposition volunteer - from the video Web site? Nearly 400,000. And the scene of his campaign heavies manhandling a liberal blogger: 180,000. They can’t all have been Democrat partisans and people from out of state. And, of course, the people who downloaded it talked about it, so the effect ripples outward. Missouri’s race was settled by about 20,000 swing voters. How many people downloaded video clips of Rush Limbaugh’s bizarre attack on Michael J. Fox for his role in that race, or the actor’s dignified response? More than 1.1 million.
here is the [Re: ] magazine locative dissent interview 2006-10-27 05:05:00 Possibilities in Locative Media - an e-mail interview
with Jeremy HightLocative Media - recently becoming more popular in media art discourses - has roots dating back to the dawn of history. Early myths like the Gilgamesch Epic or - more specific - Homer's Odyssey deal with issues of location and the "recording" of movement on earth's surface. Developments since then include medieval cartography as well as the Situationists approach to mapping a city. Nowadays Locative Media uses technology to trigger artworks in a specific physical space.Recently Jeremy Hight, one of the developers of the first locative narrative - "34 nort 118 west" [1] published two papers that investigate the use of locative media in different directions:In "Floating Points - Locative Media, Perspective, Flight and the International Space Station" [2] (below shortly referred to as "Floating Points") he proposes, together with the aerospace engineer Alexander Van Dijk, the use of the International Space Station in
enough talk........ACT....... 2006-10-24 20:12:00 Enough contextualizing and pondering philosophical reference points and talking about what text the war and air of media control relates to in some esoteric way.DO SOMETHINGBE PROACTIVETHINK OF WHAT CAN BE DONE NOWDISCUSS IT AT LEAST INSTEAD OF JUST DISCUSSING THEORYBE IN A MOMENT NOT ANALYZING ITtired of feeling like a lone voice in the techno-academic world here..........[tagname]
interview to come out soon that lays out much more detail 2006-10-07 17:17:00 Will not give up the details yet but the interview
lays out many layers of detail of the steps of implementation and interconnection of elements that the locative dissent essay did not touch on. It was meant as a more general blueprint.Need to clarify that this is not to assume (presumptously) that no concepts of dissent have existed in locative media. Drew Hemmett touched upon it in locative dystopia years back and projects like Headmap proposed it in a geoannotation sense of community. The difference here is taking it much further. The depth of use of technology, immediacy and permanence for dissent and response is at the fore and in a way that was aptly described recently in a conversation with cultural theorists is "complexly simply". yes. Will publish parts of the interview here and links to it once it is published...it is about 20 times more detailed as it needs to be. I am tired of seeing semiotics fail, seeing image and signifier spun against dissenting voice,
dissent, semiotics and immediate response 2006-09-28 05:02:00 Going to my aunt's funeral tomorrow. She was an amazing person a dear friend and my first mentor. She died of terminal cancer slowly. We had many talks about the need for a way to fight biased media and to better protest and voice dissent. I am deeply saddened but it inspires me even more to try. The other facet is semiotics. The conservatives have a great mastery of image and symbolism. The traditional form of protest is immediate
ly dissected and spun back as ragtag, disorganized, delayed and thus feeble. Technology allows an immediacy seen in parts of the world with smart mob technology for messaging and organization but the other key element is locative and semiotic. What place is a powerful symbol of protest of what recently has come to light? What response will send a symbolic message of dissent and empowerment of the dissenting voice? Won't immediacy seem to be much more an analog of cause and effect and if on mass scale won't it be harder to spin or ignore? Th
locative dissent now...... 2006-09-18 21:17:00 Locative Dissent is a broad theoretical essay simply to set a template for what needs to be done.A protest is ephemeral, a brief show of support then it is gone. The key with locative dissent is that now that voice and information can have permanence and at key locations that must be rememered for what happened. At manzanar one should be able to know what temporary prison held american citizens. The same is true of the rodney king beating, the exxon spill, the love canal, the headquarters of enron and such events far more current as they occur and are underreported or forgotten.The way it can work at a grassroots level is along the lines of food not bombs. Money can be raised through donations for the cause of a particular chemical spill, police brutality, etc.The technology is very simple. The phone picks up the signal that is sent at the location. All someone needs is a capable phone. The protest/dissent information has already been assembled (again at very low cost) by th
locative dissent 2006-09-15 16:29:00 Locative DissentJeremy Hight The landscape is the map. Our histories of panic, of dread, of the disorientation of shifts and slippages, attempted erasures: all is a map. The advent of locative media art makes this possible.. The nature of wireless signals and global position satellite data (GPS) as available in many laptops , and cell phones is that it allows information to be placed in a location in real time. The landscape can hold dissent, can reveal facts less known or even repressed in time and be accessed in a live triggered feed of important information. A protest is an event that exists physically in a single moment in a single location, or in multiple locations. The crowd disperses, and the message gets voiced as best as possible through channels of dissenting voice, sometimes in bits and pieces in the mainstream media (usually as a blip, and with lowest possible numbers reported). All of this occurs after the fact and away from the event of protest. The audio files tri
locative dissent is published 2006-09-10 18:24:00 The essay "locative dissent" has just been published
in the Sarai reader and in the online journal VJ theory. In locative dissent I discuss how elements of smart mobs and their technological/physical/emotional/community immediacy and locative media can create a form of protest and dissent that is far less ephemeral and with greater detail in information and a greater sense of permanence. A potential lcative project at Manzanar is also discussed as an example of locative dissent and what has been lost/erased in time. Grassroots funding can also make it possible for this to available in an information outreach to those who otherwise cannot access gps enabled phones and to further disseminate important information and allow a place, an event and witness to speak.www.sarai.net/journal/reader_06.htmlwww.vjtheory.net/texts.htm[tagname]
floating points and sound 2006-08-30 14:58:00 Thinking more about sound and textual applications of floating points technology. The array is wide but can encompass data functionality and survey all th way to sound art that "reads and interprets" city spaces.....distance......point of view shift....movement rate.........forms and algorythms... how it can a compositional tool yet locative by one person and another can use it as something much more of narratve immersion.....and yet another form of it can be quite pragmatic....and developing designs for plane antennae to avoid signal blockage and line of site issues.............plane is a moving point......[tagname]
floating points at ISEA remote 2006-08-12 17:12:00 Went really well. The talk was pushed back to Friday at 1 so apologies to the people that contacted me about checking in on it thurs. Discussed floating points and several apps for 20 minutes with a little q and a. The work is splittng now into several primary projects and related essential texts. One will be for the international space station, but one will be handheld from above on flights reading spaces below and trajectories and another will be handheld at ground level looking up and changing with vantage point (ground level, 4th floor, hill top etc...). Very excited. This will be a tool for artists as well as for many pragmatic applications in terms of reading spatially placed data and navigating through it at varying levels and levels of depth of investigation (a sort of nasa worldwind data bank but in real time with movement up and down as well as horizontal).Saw in leonardo that my essay "Narrative Archaeology was selected as a primary text next to 2 of my idols
augmented reality fused with Ai and wearables.... 2006-08-01 03:52:00 Been working out a lot of concepts in locative media in my head and making a lot of notes. Have several new essays in the works that deal more closely with future adaptations of augmented reality
.....ai data engines..........and wearables.........also more on how to map in a live 3d space past trajectories.........to "read" the paths both on and above the ground with a device with gyroscopic capability to infer a spatial relationship to data and spaces on the earth.....an exciting time...........[tagname] Read more:fused
Commercial - Atari - 1976 Super Pong
What is it a... 2007-06-23 16:17:00 Commercial - Atari
- 1976 Super
PongWhat is it about the new when it is old? Speculation becomes commerce becomes quo become kitsch becomes retro cool inversion. Atari 5200 pubEverything continually shifts in context. "New" is a linguistic/semantic connundrum isn't it? It cancels itself out as new has a massive amount of contexts and is so subjective.George Clinton - Atomic DogWhat first may be fetishized as new may later be fetishized for the very decoupling that comes in time, of the astronautic free float out of the stream of current popular culture. Thus it could be argued that even semiotics can be collapsed in on itself. The systematizing of sign and signifier also is ultimately subjective, prismatic, multiple and also always sliding in and out of contexts in time. Just got home from a nice dinner with friends. Never realized that it was unusual that as a kid I sometimes added and subtracted in my head on an imagined chalkboard, sometimes I could do 12 or 14 number Read more:Commercial
ramble.... 2007-06-30 21:52:00 No videos this time.The epiphany about math as a kid has kind of sunk in now. Makes sense. Always wondered how the hell I was able to spend a summer of game theory and not have some skill at math. I wonder if it was the the same sort of distillation I had come to see in Meteorology. My love of Meteorology has always been about concepts,variation, complex structures and how some prime ones are downright elegant and like complex concepts can almost be simple in a sense when really complete, layered and clear. I have always seen art in science and barthean narratives (looser sense of narrative as change, shift in perspective, sometimes realization ..) and now more and more see this in math. It has narratives, poetry, music.....in the sense of shadings, poignance, variation like those in language and sentence and their transport and portent and variation like music in its tones,tempo,volume, degrees of tonality and atonality, abrasive to smooth ways of playing textures into instru
Happy end of the fourth. Happy war in Iraq. H... 2007-07-05 04:02:00 Happy end of the fourth
. Happy war in Iraq
. Happy media that is increasingly edutainment. Happy Paris Hilton in the face of where previous generations would discuss great inventors,scientists,muckrakers,investigative journalists....Happy morass. Take a cell phone, shoot photos, take a video. Use it as evidence of injustice,abuse of power, corruption. Post it on you tube and flickr etc. Tell others. Repeat. Utilize technology and the damn web 2.0. This is new media. Let the old close its eye tight. We have technology. We have no choice but to have deep wells of dissent. Combine them to also have a voice.[tagname] Read more:Happy
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