[Synthesis][TML]: table-portal test (Was: [Portal research stream] opening up the audio-video portals between Synthesis Brickyard and TML studios )

by Xin Wei Sha
Hi,

This is a good example of the sort of poetic portal behaviours and forms we might explore in a great variety over a brief period of time.

Bravo Evan! :)

Portal = porthole experiment

What I’d like to see us experiment with as well are
multiple pairs of small (20cm) disk portals  with similar wipe => reveal behaviours
set up on 24x7 live streams.  Use cameras and / or sub-regions of video streams that yield restricted views
of only a small field of view.

Then we can explore invention of social protocols for tailoring the topology of gaze / portal via physically angling the cameras and pico-projectors on the spot in live, in situ tests.  
Let’s unbolt projectors and cameras from fixed locations and fixed perspectives!

The point: Deleuze & Guattari’s rhizomes are not simply networks of identical nodes as is commonly understood in mechanical interpretation, but manifolds of perspectival monads that continuously vary, continuously.   And ethico-aesthetic reflexivity demands that we ought to permit us inhabitants to tailor the topological gaze identification ourselves.   This is not for the programmer-engineer-designer to over-think and "solve" ahead of the dwelling.   I’ll relay Luke’s comments as well in subsequent email.

Xin Wei

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Begin forwarded message:

From: Michael Montanaro <michael.montanaro@concordia.ca>
Subject: Test table
Date: June 21, 2014 at 12:20:39 PM PDT
To: Xin Wei Sha <Xinwei.Sha@asu.edu>, Sha Xin Wei <shaxinwei@gmail.com>, "Evan Montpellier" <evan.montpellier@gmail.com>

Have a look. Will test live portal tomorrow with Niko in Greece. 



take care
m


Michael Montanaro, Chair
Department of Contemporary Dance
Concordia University
Artist/Researcher /  HEXAGRAM 
Centre for Research-Creation in Media Arts and Technologies