Introduction to the module
What is out there? Inspiration
We do have a vast variety of briefs for our final project, and it is very hard to pick one, so I decided to look around to see what is out there on all the subject I am interested in…and hopefully get inspired.
Telepresence
My first favourite subject was mentioned during the class. Telepresence. But what is Telepresence ?
The word TELEPRESENCE was coined by Marvin Minsky to designate:
teleoperation systems used in remote object-manipulation applications (Goldberg, 2000: 27)
Telepresence refers to a set of technologies used to allow a person to feel such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location as if they were present, and manage to give the impression that they were present, or at least to have that effect.
The Telegarden by Ken Godberg
When we say Telepresence or Google Telepresence art and robotic in Google, one of the first ling we get is the Telegarden. This project based on the creation of an active social online community. Members of that community were remotely interacting and taking care of a garden. Seeding, watering and monitoring the growth and evolution.
This project was one of the earliest telerobotics experience in 1996.
French writer Voltaire said, “we have to cultivate our Garden” and that was the exact goal of this piece, of course I a very meaningful way.
Headroom by Paul Sermon
HEADROOM is a juxtaposition of experiences lived by the artist in Taipei, relating the way people dwell and their getaway. We could easily compile with the parallel of isolation in the bedroom space and the attractive telepresence aspirations of the Internet space. This installation is also referencing Roy Ascott’s essay, ‘Is There Love in the Telematic Embrace?’ (1990. But one big question is highlighted in this project. Does telematic art has the potential to embody love, it would not be paradoxical for art to be electronic and simultaneously serve humanist principles? I believe HEADROOM or even Nam June Paik’s early Buddha TV installations does simply answer that kind of thought.
http://www.internationalfellowships.org.uk/artistpage.php?artist_id=161
Technical description can be found on:
http://presence.stanford.edu:3455/Collaboratory/50
Telematic Dreaming by Paul Sermon
The basic principle used in all the Telematic installations made y PauI Sermon involves a form of video-conferencing telepresence. By using cameras, video mixers and projectors, two remote participations are combined and framed within the same screen/image. Generally using application being able to play with chroma-key effects in real-time. An application such as Eyesweb or even processing could easily archive this effect and mix two identical scenes from two different location.
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/refmovie.php?mov=226&play=video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2HhY_8FO2c
The Telematic Séance by Paul Sermon
Another work by Paul Simon based on the same principal.
I think it would be very interesting to create an imaginary virtual world, such as a fantasy world and having the same to participant interacting We generally use the virtual world as an extension of our dreams, a real setting could be transformed as a dream…
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