Chapter: Interactive environments and Virtual Worlds
Edmond Couchot, Michel Brett and Marie-Helene Tramus,
The Feather, (1988-92) and I sow to the Four Winds (1990)
A reaction provoked installation. Where the artists creates a virtual environment where the participant interacts with it in real time. The visitors use breath to interact with installations, which in [...]
November 28, 2007
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I sow to the Four Winds (1990) “Les Pissenlits” (Dandelions)
by Edmond Couchot and Michel Bret 2005: system presented at the time of the collective exhibition “Natural/Digital” organized in Paris by the festival Arborescence (Association Terre Active), Numeriscausa and the Biche de Bère Gallery. In this interactive work, 9 umbels of dandelion are gently scattered [...]
November 28, 2007
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I have now embarked on my virtual excitence and become a member of the secondlife. I have took the physical form of a female 20 something female with rainbow hair.
My Virtual existence_ A day in the Life of Sharon Dalgliesh (my virtual persona)
Day 1
I am a virtual citizen to the L word Second life; where [...]
November 15, 2007
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Reference_ Jackson Pollok: As the artist’s tools never physically touched the paper as with digital art there is no actual physical tool, but a virtual tool.
Flash to create illustration that cannot create manually…
Lets the animation take own direction/controlling randomness/program /random structure
“Gesture makes way for independent algorithmic systems
Computational design Purist vs. hybrid
The collage of colour intertwined, [...]
November 15, 2007
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From Real to Virtual and Back Again
Technology that comforts us …. Virtual objects can have physical behaviour..
One of the projects that incorporated this ethos was a remote control that was created to be tactile and simplified to give the user more time to reflect on the process of using the instrument and then focusing [...]
November 15, 2007
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Craig sawn: craig@carshmedia.com
Craid sann put forward some very interesting ideas, on most creative ways to approach the interface. Flash has given the computer ears and awareness.
His ideologies of the computer and human interactivity were investigate through creation and then reflection. And he
Sann, has spent most of his career adopting a more a playful approach to [...]
November 10, 2007
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Through the 3 click hyper linking rule. I have came across a website that utilises the sensory capabilities of participating through a sonic external device.
www.scream-o-meter.com uses the computer microphone to control the sound input and create movement on the interface.
Pros and Cons
Pros: The website achieves a strong participatory interaction as the game requires the interactor [...]
November 4, 2007
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