Art Talks & Sketches (sorted by Exhibition Year)
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Title: Illusions/Delusions
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1996: The Bridge
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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This presentation describes the author’s use of stereoscopic computer imaging procedures to construct artworks that explore the viewer’s relationship to virtual/pictorial space.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: ParkBench Public-Access Web Kiosks
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1996: The Bridge
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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ParkBench kiosks address the problem of elitism in cyberspace. The Internet’s information and connectivity resources seem to promise universal access. Our aim is to reach out to those who lack the prerequisites for getting online.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: SPACE|R A C E
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1996: The Bridge
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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SPACE|R A C E, an interactive multimedia piece about the 1960s U.S. Civil Rights movement and space program, encourages viewers to experience paradox and ambiguity as natural parts of human existence in a complex world.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Telematic and Telepresence Installations
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1996: The Bridge
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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My work with telecommunications started in 1985, when I created a virtual gallery that could be accessed via the videotext system. Since 1989, I have been working with Ed Bennett on the Ornitorrinco project of telepresence installations. The basic structure of these installations is comprised of a wireless telerobot, regular phone lines (both for vision and remote control), and remote spaces. Viewers become participants as they transport themselves to the remote body and navigate the remote space freely by pressing the keys on a familiar telephone.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: A Zooming Sketchpad, a Multiscale Narrative: Pad++, PadDraw, Gray Matters
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Pad++, a general-purpose zoomable substrate For creating and interacting with structured information, is under development by researchers at the University of New Mexico and New York University. All Pad++ objects support zooming, and there ore mechanisms for navigating through a multiscale space using panning, zooming, and hyperlinks. Pad++ includes a number of efficiency mechanisms that help maintain interactive framerates with large and complicated graphical scenes.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Agree to Disagree Online
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
Any collaboration is a negotiation. While most artistic teams hide the filibustering, intellectual posturing, and shifting alliances that lie behind their decisions, Agree to Disagree Online brings these facets of collaboration to the fore.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: An American Gothic... or a Pound of Prevention
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Manifest destiny: In “Excerpts from the Vancouver Lectures,” Jack Spicer relates the story: Yeats, 1918, a train bound for Los Angeles. His wife in a trance, automatic writing, taking dictation from “spooks.” Yeats poses the question: “What are you here for?” And the spooks reply: “We are here to give metaphors for your poetry.”
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Computer Graphics as Stainless Steel Output
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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A history of hand-held graphics might include Tarot cards, playing cards, the carte de visite, business cards, credit cards, and more recently telephone cards. While each of these subsets has a differing history and function, they also have shared attributes that continue to attract our interest. Proportions, scale, content, cast, and techniques of production all merge with more recent communication functions. Borrowing from these physical and conceptual traditions suggests possibilities for an artist using digital typography to create a kind of permanent ephemera. Incorporating stainless steel output offers an option for the designer to employ a technology similar to computer chip technology and to investigate the conversion of digitized art to artifact.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: CyberHuman Dances Series: An Articulation of Body, Space, and Motion in Performance
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
The CyberHuman Dance Series is an experimental dance work exploring simulations of physical and virtual phenomena in the context of performance. By integrating innovative digital technology with the choreographic and design process, this work investigates all aspects of design and performance in cyberspace, with particular emphasis on issues of real and perceived boundaries between virtual space and real space, and the possibility of a blurred distinction between two intersecting worlds.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Design Speech Acts: "How to do things with words" in Virtual Communities
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Cyberspace is language-based (cf. Cicognani, 1996, 1997; Winograd,1987), and so are virtual communities. The author argues that virtual communities are ideal places to experience and enhance a language for design, and for designers.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Disability in the Arts
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Life with a physical disability has allowed me a unique and humbling perspective that has manifested in my art work. I create art with and for people who live with various types of physical and/or mental limitations.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Dream Grrrls: Metaphors
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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The process of designing multi-user virtual environments (VE) is similar to the process of designing code or imagery, in that it is necessary to passionately maintain a catalog of ideas and references. VE design combines these passions to construct a consistent graphical user interface (GUI) with metaphors for exploration and self-reflection in a collaborative team effort.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Dynamic3: Interactive Physics and Physicality In Three Dimensions
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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We lose the joy of pliability in our interactions with the computer when we get lost in a cacophony of visual iconic references. There is no grace. Dynamic3 emphasizes the subtleties of interaction. Not what is seen, but what is felt. A physics-based computational model and a fluid physical interface amplify the expression.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Genderbender, Smartstall, The Automatic Confession Machine
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
This presentation reviews three works: Genderbender, Smart Stall (exhibited in The Bridge: SIGGRAPH 96 Art Show), and The Automatic Confession Machine (exhibited in Machine Culture, SIGGRAPH 93).
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Gradus: Revealing the Shape of the English Language
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Is there a way to make a meaningful shape from a collection of the individual words of the English language? What would that shape look like? Why would this approach be preferable to a traditional representation — a printed dictionary, for example? These were among the questions we asked when we set out to visualize the English language as a single entity.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Hand Held Tools for Navigating Information
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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If computers are tools for manipulating information, they have been notoriously poor at using the hands of the people who use them. By engaging the hands of the user, it is possible to get a literal handle on complex visualizations of information. In this project, the goal is to design a more practical, productive, and fluid kind of interface.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: izzy bombus and the story of flight
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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izzy bombus and the story of flight is a prototype CD-ROM consisting of an animated story with associated games and educational activities for children ages four through seven. Izzy, a young bumblebee, discovers that according to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee cannot fly. Dismayed but undeterred, izzy collects implements from a kitchen drawer to build a flying machine and asks her viewers for help with the construction. With izzy in the cockpit, the viewer pushes the launch button, the countdown begins, the smoke swirls … lift-off!
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Making Caricatures with Morphing
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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The talent of a caricaturist is important when using traditional media such as pencil and paper. Since traditional media are not interactive, caricaturists must complete the caricatures in their minds before starting to draw. Since this ability does not exist in most people, it has always been considered some sort of magical talent of a gifted few.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Multi-Media Metamorphosis (or making the medium shoe fit)
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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A large portion of my work has entailed taking a theme or story and giving it life in a variety of media. The Mutant Gene & Tainted KoolAid Sideshow CD-ROM (completed October 1995) is a navigable interpretation of a series of performances I staged in 1994, by the same name. The performances incorporated live and pre-recorded, multiple-monitor and projected video; animation; text; both sequenced and live instrumental music; and dramatic artifacts and performance elements such as masks and dance.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Multimedia Interactive Artist's Archive and Retrospective
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Creative options and challenges: a digital art archive grows into a dynamic showcase with new views of the art.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Technophobia
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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Technophobia is a collection of original multimedia art in an interactive exhibition. In addition to the original multimedia artwork, the CD-ROM includes a studio visit with each artist.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: The Virtual Harvester Project
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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The Virtual Harvester Project is an effort to address the need For global commitment and action to fight one of human society’s most basic problems: food insecurity. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) created the Poverty Clock to illustrate how quickly poverty grows. Each successive digit on the clock indicates another person living on less than $1.00 (U.S.) per day. Synchronized to the Poverty Clock’s ticking, one new plant sprouts on the virtual corn field; yielding approximately 47 plants each minute.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Using Video to Create Avatars in Virtual Reality
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 1997: Ongoings
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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The VideoAvatar Library is a collection of functions that works in conjunction with the CAVE Library and can be used to add static, photo-realistic, three-dimensional representations of remote users, as well as other objects or agents, to virtual reality applications. The process involves obtaining views from 360 degrees around the person, then selecting two of these images, one for each eye, to represent the user in 3D space.
View Full Paper: [View PDF]Title: Associative Audio Design
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: Meros
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: RealSnailMail [RSM]
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: Skorpions
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Abstract/Summary/Introduction:
SKORPIONS are a collection of kinetic electronic garments that use the shape-memory alloy Nitinol to move and change on the body in slow, organic motions. They have anthropomorphic qualities and can be imagined as parasites that inhabit the skin of the host. They breathe and pulse, controlled by their own internal programming. They are living behavioral kinetic sculptures that exploit characteristics such as control, anticipation, and unpredictability.
SKORPIONS integrate electronic fabrics, soft electronic circuits, specially designed circuit boards, Nitinol, mechanical actuators such as magnets, and traditional textile construction technique. The cut of the pattern, the seams, and other construction details become an important component of engineering design. SKORPIONS are not interactive: their programming does not respond to sensor data. SKORPIONS shift and modulate personal and social space by imposing physical constraints on the body. They alter behavior, by hiding or revealing hidden layers, inviting others inside the protective shells of fabric, by erecting breathable walls, or tearing themselves open to divulge hidden secrets.
Title: Spacequatica
Author(s):
Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: The Life and Death of Energy-Autonomous Objects
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
Title: Water Planet
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Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2008: Slow Art
Writing Type: Sketch / Art Talk
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