well Scott i feel i should tell you about my 'nothing' project ....this is all the times i didnt record anything with my videocamera plus all the times ruth didnt do any dancing combined to make nothing that wont be having a gallery show or performance of the nothing so you cant see it, I reckon Ill be getting a National Touring Grant from the ACE not to tour it.... laters Bruno ; ) >Hello, > >A thought: > >Matt Rogalsky is a UK based media artist who has recently announced his >plans to "capture the gaps between the words" during 24 hours of monitoring >BBC Radio 4 on 12 December 2001... and produce a 24 CD box set of silences. >[12 December is the 100th anniversary of the first wireless transatlantic >communication.] Matt has programmed Supercollider (a realtime audio >synthesis programming language -- http://www.audiosynth.com/) to adjust >itself to the loudness of the radio signal and pick up the ambient and >other sounds that occur between the words. Each programme generates >different silences -- "the silence of The Archers* is totally different >from the silence of Today*" -- (*two BBC radio 4 shows for those of you >outside the UK). The website for the project is: >http://www.silenceisntgolden.net/ > >Motion Capture technologies (those systems that produce a simulation of >movement recorded in three dimensions in the computer) places the emphasis >on being able to reproduce this simulation of movement to appear to be as >accurate as possible. In the animation field this accuracy is measured by >different criteria than in the field of biomechanics. In animation, the >accuracy aims to be universally acknowledged -- its evidence is the fiction >that become less fictional through this integration of motion. This >integration relies these days on a combination of sampling (capture) and >synthesis (computation) and can apply not only to individual figures >(animals or human) but also to larger crowds or flocks of figures moving in >concert. The field of biomechanics is different by magnitudes -- motion >capture in this context is designed to produce the most consistent, >detailed and accurate traces of motion for analysis to be conducted by >specialists in the field and in the service of developing solutions to >motion problems encountered by people or animals. > >To return to the concept of silence -- why not develop a project that would >focus on the capture of stillnesses? I am not thinking of the sort of work >that David Rokeby has done with WATCH (1995) for example using video >analysis of video image http://www.interlog.com/~drokeby/watch.html -- and >other similar projects. I'm thinking of a project that would propose to >situate itself in the center of what is essentially a commercial and >scientific industry with 100s of researchers, programmers and developers >contributing towards the capture of motion in service of the two >trajectories mentioned above. A project to capture stillnesses could >describe a set of conceptual, philosophical, technical, cultural and >aesthetic questions as a starting point. Who knows what the outcome would >be... probably not a 24 CD box set of stillnesses. > >************************************************************************************ >Soon I will put a report on line from a motion capture project several >artists >participated in this last May in Athens. We didn't focus on capturing >stillnesses >exactly, but we did get the systems to do rather strange things... >************************************************************************************ > >best > >Scott > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
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