| Curt Cloninger on Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:16:01 +0100 (CET) |
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FLTR 3.0 <body rock'n version>
[11.12.01]
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1. Yugo Nakamura: interactive statue (with shinzo) + quicktime 0
2. entropy8zuper: wirefire 11/2/01
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3. csero interactive: plant 1.2
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4. moby: body rock MixMaker
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1.
Yugo Nakamura: interactive statue (with shinzo) + quicktime 0
http://viewon.net/idea/yoshiki/twist.html
http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/25/
Yugo Nakamura is always doing cool networked Flash stuff that nobody
gets. He used to be in hell.com, so now you have to deal with him as
a net artist and can't just dismiss him as a designer/technologist.
Sorry. These are my two favorite things he's ever done, finally back
online for our viewing pleasure.
The genius of both these pieces is not just in their behaviors and
their scripting (which are basically peerless), but in the way Yugo
maps Flash behaviors to the human body. It's one thing to use action
scripting to create a frictive, gravitational environment. Most
people able to create this environment then proceed to populate it
with a bunch of lifeless, wireframe polygons that look all
computer-y. By populating these environments instead with
photographs of human shapes, and by causing the Flash behaviors to
control the human shapes, Yugo has created two pieces that are more
than the sum of their parts.
The Interactive Statue feels like one of those old fashioned
kinetoscopes, but much more reactive. It's the illusion of movement.
There are actually just four static stills of the same person. But
what a pleasant illusion. It's like Robert Longo's "Men in Cities"
possessed by the spirit of a slinky. Yep, that's what it's like.
Quicktime 0 is a wondrous filmic hand machine thing. This is
basically the coolest use of Flash bar none I've ever seen. Again,
it's just a horizontal strip of 40 static images of a hand. Moving
your mouse up and down increases and shrinks the images in size.
Moving your mouse to the right and left speeds, slows, and reverses
the procession of these 40 stills across the screen. And therein
lies the wonder. Get them flying by fast enough (40 per second, 80
per second), and you've got yourself a film animation of a hand
opening and closing.
Nakamura has in essense used Flash as an interactive video projector
where the user is able to control the speed of the film. And the
entire Flash file is only 216K, much thinner than an actual Quicktime
file of this same animation could ever be. Excuse me while I
exclaim, "freaking brilliant."
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2.
entropy8zuper: wirefire 11/2/01
http://www.e8z.org/wirefire/
here are two more hell.com alum. These wirefire performances just
keep getting better and better. I case you don't know, wirefire is a
realtime multimedia broadcast, with michael and aurelia riffing back
and forth, using all manner of audio loops, gorgeous concrete
symbols, movements, textures, and bleedings -- multi-layered,
pixelated, and unapolagetically threatening to crash your browser at
all times. Once you begin viewing one of these archived
performances, mouseover the upper right hand area of the screen and a
link to the performance archives should appear, eventually.
Since I went last, e8z has added a multi-user fascet to these
performances. Observers are now invited at certain times throughout
the performance to enter text which then appears on the screen.
Viewers can even hit keystrokes at certain points to invoke circle
shapes and gong sounds. This ability to join in the dialogue makes
the pieces all the more engaging.
The 11/2/01 performance I would have entitled "Love In the Time of
Anthrax." Amidst silloutees of passenger jets, hellish flames,
alarming explosions, and eerie middle eastern audio loops, the
couples' sometimes "light n' fluffy" personal iconography here
assumes a touching profundity. Amidst the chaos and uncertainty, a +
z are still sending out creative love to each other, defying terror
with the usual nipple-massaging, hand-holding, Portishead audio
sampling, and glowing sheep disappearances we've all come to know and
love.
In his DVD audio commentary to _Monty Python and the Holy Grail_,
Terry Gilliam offhandedly muses how in the middle ages, people
regularly believed in demons and angels, regularly expected to see
demons and angels, and regularly saw demons and angels. Much more
was possible to them, being less bound by the rigors of linearity,
science, and cynicism.
Technology is meant to increase our wonder; to make the mystical
trafficable. So why do we still not get it? Props to e8z for
forging a gothic web of their own intimate personal symbols. There
are faces and hands and bodies and whispers. We are beckoned to
touch and be subsumed. The world of wirefire has less to do with
Wired Magazine and more to do with Dante's Divine Comedy. Props to
e8z for continuing to expand their symbolic vocabulary, for
continuing to improve their improvisational timing and their
collaborative rhythms. Personally, I'd rather have months of
variations on this same theme than whatever this weeks'
"installation situation blah blah" happens to be. Love develops over
time. can u dig it?
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3.
csero interactive: plant 1.2
http://www.csero.com/unit1.htm
Nothing much here. Just a cheezy looking cgi 3D interactive plant.
Click on a button and the leaves fly up. Click on another button and
some berries fly out. Click on another button and the whole thing
puffs up into some sort of passion fruit. Does everything have to be
so deep? It's just a cool, cheezy, 3D, animated plant thing. What's
not to like?
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4.
moby: body rock MixMaker
http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/bodyrock
One of my favorite interactive audio engines, not so much for the
technology, but for the interface and for the samples themselves.
All the loops are locked in a groove, and you just activate them or
deactivate them, so you can't get asynchronous or mess up or
anything. The killer app of the interface is the left right mixer in
the middle of the console. It doesn't pan stereo, per se. It just
mixes your left column and your right column. So you can throw the
mixer all the way to the right, then set up your beats on the left,
then throw the whole thing left when you're ready. It simulates the
double turntable scenario most DJs are used to. So it's possible to
get a pretty seamless live mix (after a few tries). Plus there ain't
a bad loop in the bunch.
You can listen to a couple of pre-recorded mixes to get the idea of
how it works (watch the console as you listen). Then when you get a
mix you like, you can play it back for your own admiration and
enjoyment. Or better yet, send an email to a friend, and they can go
visit your geniusly produced mix, which is archived right there on
the site. Tease animals! Get fired from your job! You won't want
to put it down!
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