Archive for June, 2002
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KeyStroke is a Multi-user Cross Media Synthesizer developed at the Waag Labs of the Society for Old and New Media that allows multiple players to generate, synthesize and process images, sounds and text together in realtime, within a shared virtual workspace. As a tool, KeyStroke enables real-time collaborative possibilities between artists from different disciplines. Players [...]
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Warren Montag argues that “We act within a specific conjecture only to see that conjecture transformed beneath our feet, perhaps by our intervention itself, but always in ways that ultimately escape our intention or control, thereby requiring new interventions ad infinitum” (see Postmodernism and Its Critics, ed. E. A. Kaplan)
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Vectorial Elevation Between April 22 and May 5, 2002 this website allowed you to design enormous light sculptures in the sky over the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz, using 18 robotic searchlights placed around the Artium Museum�s central Square. The beams of light were visible at a distance of 15 kilometres; every eight seconds a new design [...]
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TELEPRESENCE ART Eduardo Kac This essay discusses an art based on the integration of telecommunications, robotics, new kinds of human-machine interface, and computers. This “telepresence art” can be understood within the wider framework of electronic interactive art. At its best, interactive art implies less stress on form (composition) and more emphasis on behavior (choice, action), [...]
