Just finished my presentation for the Critical Context module and presented my idea of ‘Pirate Cinema’. In a very quick summary I’m going to create an event which will allow people to watch a film in a public space such as a carpark using a projector to project the image and FM transmitters to transmit the audio through radio waves to peoples car stereos, radios, mp3 players etc. It seemed to go down well I’ll do a better write up closer to the time.

Think I should start documenting my project for the Mixed Reality module as I’ve already made a considerable amount of progress so far.

a) Mixed Reality Platforms (50%) Delivered by Chris Speed

‘Experience is a system and consequently the objective world is constructed through the imposition of cultural categories on reality. Perception thus takes place through a mediating value-framework which differentiates the facticity of the environment in which one lives’, (Shields, 1991:32).

This is a site based project with that will be involve students working together in small groups, participants will design collaborative projects that share mixed reality platforms combining both physical (non-digital) and virtual (digital) materials.

It is anticipated that through an analysis of the site that the teams are given you will be expected to develop work in response to its environmental, technical, architectural and social properties. Students will be encouraged to use mobile and locative media where relevant to extend the potential dialogue with the geographical context.

The work represents the DAT 2nd Year Show for 2007/8, and teams will have to work together to ensure that a show team is able to put together appropriate organising and marketing to support such an event.

In the past this option has involved a collaboration with students from Dartington College for Arts and you can see the nature of this collaboration here…

My idea involves an online and offline based medium similar to that of the GroupHug.Us website where anonymously people can confess whatever guilty thoughts they have on their mind. I thought it would be an interesting idea to bring it to an offline and public situation where people can text in their confessions, which would then be displayed on a projection.
Anyone will be able to text in their confession or guilty secret to a specific number which will then be picked up by my Twitter account and then into it’s xml feed from the Twitter API. This will then be parsed into flash and dynamically updated each time a new text is sent in. I have integrated the idea of the 7 deadly sins, where I have created associated keywords for each sin into an array which will be picked up each time a new text is sent in.

At the moment the backend is pretty much finished, I just need to work on a pretty looking frontend and get some projection resolutions found out. Here’s where I am so far with some test keywords. The values at the bottom represent how many keywords have been parsed in, updating each time a new text is sent in.

Going to have a look at topologies and some other forms of data representation that will create some sort of body for my frontend. Prototype to be finished for next Tuesday, exhibition the week after!

Well not a dream, but two ideas I’m really proud of and keen on doing for the near future. I don’t want to give away the details too early but here’s some clues.

One is for Chris Speed’s module which will be using SMS technologies to allow people to anonymously confess their secrets or whatever they happen to feel guilty about. Similar to the www.grouphug.us website, but in a public manner.

The other is part of my negotiated project with Joasia, as I did my essay on digital graffiti, graffiti as a contemporary art practise and the idealogies of graffiti, this project will follow a similar theme which I may not reveal until I need to give my speech about it next week har.

I chose to work on Chris Speeds group doing Mixed Reality Platforms instead of Vlad’s doing Augmented Reality as I feel Chris’ allows me to experiment more with a variety of technologies, whereas Vlad’s is primarily video based and I have done a lot of video work before and it would be good to do something different.

‘Experience is a system and consequently the objective world is constructed through the imposition of cultural categories on reality. Perception thus takes place through a mediating value-framework which differentiates the facticity of the environment in which one lives’, (Shields, 1991:32).

This is a site based project with that will be involve students working together in small groups, participants will design collaborative projects that share mixed reality platforms combining both physical (non-digital) and virtual (digital) materials.

It is anticipated that through an analysis of the site that the teams are given you will be expected to develop work in response to its environmental, technical, architectural and social properties. Students will be encouraged to use mobile and locative media where relevant to extend the potential dialogue with the geographical context.

The work represents the DAT 2nd Year Show for 2007/8, and teams will have to work together to ensure that a show team is able to put together appropriate organising and marketing to support such an event.

In the past this option has involved a collaboration with students from Dartington College for Arts and you can see the nature of this collaboration here…

One of my first ideas was to project ‘Surround Video’. We have been using surround sound audio for years now and I researched looking into the idea of having surround video as well. Using a video iPod, the user will be watching a scene such as walking down a street, where the focus of the video is the pavement as the filmer walks down the street. Then, using a projector from the rear or above the head of the user, the surrounding scene which would be the road, shops and anything else around that scene that is being shown in the video iPod. I drew up a few diagrams as I was pretty keen on the idea but I felt it wasn’t as ambitious as it could be and would like to do something a bit more exciting.

I’m currently looking into more projection work, but working with mobile and possibly SMS technologies as well as audio interactions.