Eva London 2019 day 2
keynote
bloomberg london excavation 2010-14
405 wooden writing tablets found at site
size of a post card 132x102mm usually covered with wax, disappeared, the scratches survived in the wood though enhancing surface relief by raking light the wood deliverers two surface-information, the fine texture and the year lines, the third is the writing scratches
problem: How can we assist epigrapher to read the text?
light dome elevation < 30°, 96 of 128 lights
size 80 cm diameter (for a postcard sized object)
light sequencing
the viewer is an html json solution OxRTIviewer
regression procedure (Loss of detail in PTM fitting) palaeographic interpretation
HEartS Health Economic and Social impact of the ARTs
Centre of Performance Science
Can the arts contribute to prevention or alleviation of loneliness in the society? yes. but needs access and participation.
Can the arts be used to boost social connectedness and if so, how?
software for linking artwork-capture data with visitor-linking data
analema group Kima project Sound matter resonating bodies sonic vision
bringing sound and vision together in interactive installations interface for meaningful understanding
people generated sound creates vision (kind of feedback loop) preset of patterns to visualize (what is the correct pattern) is it possible to use the voice’s pattern?
Daniela de Paulis Artistic Research on Radio
the moon as an natural satellite (post ww2 us navy tech)
project optics
live performance between earth and moon
sending an image to moon an back to another place on earth distance ~800.000 km
lose of data what kind of images do people like to send to moon (outer space)?
charles duke left an image on the moon in a clear plastic bag lose of data caused roughness of the moon surface and the radio waves from outer space.
the very first hole drilled into mars image. We can not travel to the to far away planets to explore these landscapes.
dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum.
sending brain waves to space (Carl Segan) SETI (early recordings have facial distortion fragments) CIGITO IN SPACE we are not the master of time and space exploration of the unreliability
the overview effect - frank white (astro)nauts reports a cognitive shift
eeg - cap scientific one to provide highest possible accuracy flow / stream of consciousness - states of mind VR is good in blend out any filter applied by reality/nature/environment (censorship reversed) creating a connection between the viewer and the cosmos
Scipio’s Dream
Knowlton school chris strasbaugh, digital library archivist amd curator
Is it mature, useful, flexible, sustainable, cheap enough? tech is cool, Partners and Ambassadors are essential
rhino, enscape(x), fuzor, unity
stop and evaluate if you had some success.
VR nice, AR better because the physical stuff. AR is easier than VR.
workflow document that is usable and evolving
Visual Democratization AR and the Underpass Festival
cultural programming in public spaces political constrains of tech public awareness of market operations privacy and lack of
immersive tech is struggling to respond to expectation
the value of side and context
wall paintings in public spaces + AR - interactivity see the site
Milton Keynes (new city 1960)
community practice
anise gallery avr london a_vr
dialog between artwork and architecture virtual playground kids orientated
virtualrealism rebuild the space your are in, in VR aka the gallery. findings: Old people like VR it is hard to sell artworks (in virtual and real) time limits to the experience are important vr of famous artists work in a famous gallery is more popular
my learning: location and size does still matter in nature i should put anise gallery on my list of where to go venues in London
storytelling(-neg influence) and restricting(fixed viewpoint) viewers freedom are potent create a meditative experience
cultural heritage protection
under big threads: climate change, mass tourism, environmental pollution, wars
vr-productions in cutting edge technologies
can we shared and spread our heritage?
yes we can someway.
problem : uncanny valley effect
XR for XR Carl H. Smith and Jay Cousins
Context craft: game of domes play of reality it contains: a construction toy made out of sticks and bee wax
we can shape reality we can act together
fungus / mushroom the oldest gardening species mass extinction caused be trees in the carbon area
- increasing skills, building community lightweight developing structures in order to build A.R.C.S (Accessible Regenerative Common Structures)
fologram
how to get analog into the digital Let’s test other form of reality in virtuality first.
Being with media - encountering image in physical space - kenneth feinstein
the media now becomes an environment from window to spaces (metaphor) Meaning has been derived from the metaphysical remove. This meaning is OTHER TO US allowing us to pass judgement.
The meaning of this otherness has changed over time.
Otherness & being with
-Levinas ontology places within a context -Flusser sees our relationship to the apperatus as one of play (interaction with the devices and others …)
media art and a drive towards the experiential
- experience over the contemplated image
- Kircher’s Metaphor Machine (conversational in nature) - still talking at us
- num yun paik experiential art (Happenings, New wave Cinema, interaction and gaming)
- team lab the result is a conversational
Post Box Cinema … why? the post box is the symbol of modern nation-state is is symbol of modernism
a creation of the modern nation
the video image is a reference to German Romantic painting it speaks of landscape as nostalgia for a false past the combination speaks of an idealogy of the financial sector as the new aristocracy
people relate to it because of the familiarity they want to use it as an post box
… as Being-with object
FOVO
natural perspective for computer graphics
a real time engine for the more comfortable perspective: demonstration. (unity)