Given Tain, Cooper and other folks’ findings, IMHO we should use wifi networked cameras but not GoPro’s. (Can we borrow two from somewhere hort term to get the video network going?) Comments on networked cameras?
But let’s keep the focus on portals for sound and gesture / rhythm.
Keep in mind the point of the video portal is not to look AT an image in a rectangle, but to suture different regions of space together.
Cooper’s diagram (see attached) offers a chance to make another distinction about Synthesis research strategy, carrying on from the TML, that is experientially and conceptually quite different from representationalist or telementationalist uses of signs.
(Another key tactic: to eschew allegorical art.)
A main Synthesis research interest here is not about looking-at an out-of-reach image far from the bodies of the inhabitants of the media space,
but how to either:;
(1) use varying light fields to induce senses of rhythm and co-movement
(2) animate puppets (whether made of physical material, light, or light on matter).
The more fundamental research is not the actual image or sound, but the artful design of potential responsivity of the activated media to action.
This goes for projected video, lighting, acoustics, synthesized sound, as well as kinetic objects.
All we have to do this summer is to build out enough kits or aspects of the media system to demonstrate these ways of working and in the formate of some attractive installations installed in the ordinary space.
Re. the proto-rearch goals this month, we do NOT have to pre-think the design of the whole of the end-user experience, but to build some kits that would allow us to demonstrate the promise of this approach to VIP visitors in July, students in August, and to work with in September when everyone’s back.
Cheers for the smart work to date,
Xin Wei
