Calendar/2006-11-20
From AlmostPerfect
November 20th
09.00 - 10.00 GIVE PROJECT UPDATES AND POSE questions. WIKI page for each project - JPL 313 010:15 – 11:15 Artist Talks - JPL 313 ArtistPresentations - Simon Pope, Elly Jones, Ben Clayton, Pamela Wilson (see below for notes from presentations)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch - Dining Room
13.00 - 15.00 HP Lab Session - JPL 313
HP Lab Session 13:00 am to 15:00 am JPL 313
- Logging, tracking and status
In this session Ben will demonstrate how to use the inbuilt features such as Logging, debug, status indicators. He will also show how you might create a "Wait for a fix" prolog.
Elley Jones, Software Intern, Mobile Media Solution Laboratory, HP Labs Bristol Ben Clayton, Context-Sensitive Applications Researcher, Mobile Media Solution Laboratory, HP Labs Bristol
Monday (nov. 20th) TO BE RECONFIRM
> ListeningRoom
> 7:30 to 9 PM @ room 124
>
> There will be a very good sound system.
> if you have something (sound) you would like to check just bring it.
> Also we have a few propositions to trigger your ears.
ARTIST PRESENTATIONS - NOTES
SIMON POPE • www.ambulantscience.org
• reader at Cardiff school of design
• supervision hours spent with post grad. students or supervising students on a design for interactive media
• practice started over 10 years in software development and moved toward visual arts particularly in locative media
• projects:
- charade
o invited two artists to make work
o chose the object and become part of work by memorizing the work
o invited people to workshop and look at how people take knowledge into body
o people gathered in april in victorial square to walk about in city centre reciting things they heard from network
o comes from film far 451 (the temperature at which paper burns)
• working with artists and community forming task collectively • new way of working personally
• people came together like a flash mob and turned up in public space each manifesting text or gesturing the segment they memorized.
- walking here and there with Vaughan Bell, researcher
o looks at interaction among walking, memory, space and place
o science art collaboration
• began as a project here at Banff – trying to research walking as an art practice
• stacked furniture in attempt to remember walk taken previously in italy
• started to discuss idea with a psychologist
• realized the relationship between walking and memory
• knew if enough time spent walking and remembering, the previous walk could be recalled
• talks about conditions of severe and unique memory loss caused from war injuries
• delusions of space – paramecia?
• the idea related to space in relation to locative media
• creates individual models of space
• Susan: questioning space and spatial authencity.
• Simon: shape of locative media
- miran kwan – writer on space
o saying that when you think of place you differentiate one location from another.
o create an economy of place marking e.g. tourist markings
- interested in connection between places and their relationship to other places
o creating an experiment with Vaughn relating to space and memory
• walking people in a park and then walking them in a straight hospital corridor
• publish it as psychology data
- exhibition – people coming to a gallery walking in the gallery space while they remember a walk through another gallery space – solo exhibition in Cardiff
o gallery space recall
o creating great discussion around creating an empty gallery space
o new institution critique - revived discussion about space
- place is meaningful location
- michel de certeau – place and space getting to the point
- mixed reality labs in knottingham, mark tuters, …got a huge academic research project together. drew hemmet and jen summers
• overview - focus on walking as a contemporary art practice
-working with sociologist to talk about walking as an art practice
• susan: link between simon and paula’s work relating to space – Paula’s work of overlaying information in place.
• simon: how people who have knowledge and understanding of information can participate in broadcast.
• Stephen: curious about the hallway and park walk. taking the winding walk and straighten it out. these points of crushing …like the analogies. straighting something out from memory.
• Ellie: raises Kurtis’ work
Elly Jones
• currently in a master's of engineering program
• got into engineering in grade school
• plays a variety of instruments including French horn
• described several engineering projects:
- a belt, called el-arm, that senses when people fall over and sends out a radio signal to get help
- was on discovery channel – received help to take idea into the real world
• got into working with hp – through jo reid
• used to do a marathon
• make airplanes (project in university)
Pam Wilson
administrative line producer
- work in textile
- shown in Toronto.
- came from Toronto to Banff
- latest show work in thesis – cautionary tale. mfa in western university in painting and textiles
o sky fowler
o chistine davis
o todd ________
- located within narrative of gender politics
- questions of identity
- work in embroidery
- bodies bear heads of animals
- work based in theory as well as practice
Ben Clayton
• computer science masters at Bristol university
• game called depth charge
• used motion pod
- seat and joy sticks and three screens
- on 6 hydraulic legs
o can mkove up/down/left and right/ twist
- worked on graphics
- game – duye to global warming, Bristol was underwater and Bristol had to be saved
- walked around Bristol with a camera
- created 3-d models of city
- sunk it underwater
- wanted to explore motion in game
o knew people who were marketing game were not gamer players
o created an introductory sequence
- for thesis created a project called elastic audio
o is a musician
o wanted to remix and change the tune in mixing
o developed application
• feed in audio
• uses pitch detection algorthyms
