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NETWORKED IMMERSIVE ENVIRONMENTS.INTERACTIVE
INSTALLATIONS. VIRTUAL REALITY. SOUND PROJECTS.
KRISTIN SKIBINSKI DECEMBER 5, 2005
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INSTALLATIONS.
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installations
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• Digital installations create 'environments', that
  deal with different levels of 'immersion'.
• A historical example of an installation is a
  medieval church.
• Architecture, light and symbolism are used to
  create a transformative, enclosed space for
  visitors.
• Goal is to establish a connection to physical
  space.
• There is always a spatial and architectural
  element.

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installations common aspects of large digital
environments are
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• architectural models
• navigational models that explore interfaces or
  movements
• construction of virtual worlds
• networked models that allow users to participate
  remotely
• All are concerned with relationships between
  physical space and
• virtual worlds.
• All raise questions about constructions and
  perceptions of space.

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installations navigation in connection to
architecture
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• Jeffrey Shaw LEGIBLE CITY 1988-91
• User is navigating through a simulated city.
• The city consists of large 3D letters, that form
  words and sentences when the user rides a
  stationary bike.
• Architecture is the text.
• Users control direction and speed, with steering
  wheel and pedals, that are connected to computer.
  Users physical actions create changes in the
  landscape.
• Users/readers construct narrative by making
  choices through textural labyrinth city, which
  becomes "information architecture"

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installations augment physical architecture with
virtual memory and narrative
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• Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
• He defines "relational architecture" as
  "technological actualization of building and
  public spaces with artificial memory".
• His works consists of audio/visual projections
  onto public buildings
• With the use of historical/political/aesthetic
  contexts

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installationsaugment physical architecture with
virtual memory and narrative
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• Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
• DISPLACED EMPERORS 1997
• He establishes a link between Mexico and Austria
  with historical context.
• By pointing to places on the facade, the user
  (movements are being traced by wireless sensors),
  triggers the projection of a large hand that
  appears at the location to which they pointed.
• When a hand moves over building, user can unveil
  the interiors, that become projections on the
  building. Interiors represent the inside of the
  Chapultepec Castle, which is the Habsburg
  residence in Mexico City.
• Audience can also make a feather headdress appear
  as a projection by pressing a "Moctezuma button".
  
• Displaces and replaces colonial history,
  involving the public with historical power
  relations.

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installationsaugment physical architecture with
virtual memory and narrative
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• Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
• VECTORIAL ELEVATION 2002 p.76
• Cityscape is altered with over a dozen
  robotically controlled searchlights.
• Searchlights were manipulated by users on the
  internet.

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installations explore light as a structural
element
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• Erwen Redl
• SHIFTING VERY SLOWLY 1998-9
• Minimal use of LED lights, creates "curtains"
  that consist of strings of the small LEDs.
• At times lights changes colors slowly, making use
  of subtle addition of another layer of space.
• MATRIX IV (series started in 2000)
• Virtual space translates into a physical space
  via screen's grid of light
• Grids and planes of virtual space transpose into
  physical environments
• Creating a "visceral experience via immaterial
  space"

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm
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• Asymptote FLUXSPACE 3.0, 2002
• Explores intersections between virtual and actual
  realms.
• Combines the qualities of both realms. Features
  of the digital are brought into actual space.
  While virtual space is part of the physical
  space.
• An urban landscape is projected onto an
  "amorphous" shape in the center of the room, with
  mirror-covered walls.
• 3D reflection create virtual 3D architecture that
  surrounds the viewer.

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm

• Masaki Fujihata GLOBAL INTERIOR PROJECTS
• pp.80-81
• networked, multi-user environment
• physical installation becomes map of virtual
  world
• blends virtual actual (fusing occurs world
  where one world mirrors the other).

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm

• Marcos Novak, Architect LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
• cyberspace as LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
• all structures are programmable and fluid,
  transcending laws of physical world.
• 'intelligent environment', these endeavors are
  increasingly important in art/architectural
  projects.
• Ex POLAR 2000

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm

• Marko Peljhan (artist) , Carsten Nicolai (sound)
  Canon Artlab
• POLAR 2000 p.82
• Inspired by Stanislaw Lems novel, SOLARIS 1961
• explores concepts of difference poles in
  dataspace
• looks at ways in which information can
  materialize in a dynamic matrix
• It allows 2 people enter the space at the same
  time.
• Each person then has a device which allows them
  to record and collect sensory information.
  (images/sounds/temperature/cultures of
  microorganisms that respond to temperature and
  light conditions in space)
• each pair of visitors changes space and creates
  new starting position for next couple.

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm

• Jesse Gilbert, Helen Thorington, Marek Walczek
• Contributors ADRIFT 1997-2001 p.84-85
• multiple location project
• establish a connection between virtual and real
  geographies
• mixes imagery by using cameras in public spaces,
  with virtual 3D spaces/text/sound projected onto
  semicircular screen in physical location

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm
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• Knowbotic Research Team Yvonne Wilhelm,
• Christian Hübler, and Alexander Tuchacek
• multimedia research team
• create installations that investigate depiction
  of actual locations in a data world,in both
  natural and urban environments

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm
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• Knowbotic Research Team
• DIALOGUE WITH THE KNOWBOTIC SOUTH 1994-7
• Users can trace how science and technology
  transform nature (Antarctica), into
  computer-aided nature.
• In 'DWTKS' they use data from various Antarctic
  research stations.
• Users move with a keyboard through sounds and
  visual data which appear on projection screens.
• Users are able to navigate through a Web
  environment as well as a local, real-time model
  of the DWTKS environment.

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm

• Knowbotic Research Team (CONT.)
• 10_DENCIES 1997-9
• invests in interactions between
  actual/virtual/hypothetical
• focus is the development of cities and urban
  process.
• navigation of virtual space depends on layers of
  interface INPUT device/screen/virtual structures
  reps information
• interfaces make a work open to interaction
  constituting a level of content warranting
  investigation

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installations investigate the representation of
physical space and architecture in virtual realm
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• Perry Hoberman TIMETABLE 1999
• 12 dials positioned around a circular table, with
  image projected onto the centre.
• Dial functions change, mutate become
  clocks/gauges/speedometers/switches/steering
  wheels etc, depending on what is projected on
  them
• The real-time 3D scene at centre of table is
  controlled and influenced by movements of the
  dials.
• It becomes more complex and multi-dimensional as
  it is used

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installations construction of virtual worlds

• Bill Seaman THE WORLD GENERATOR/THE ENGINE OF
  DESIRE
• Virtual environment created in collaboration with
  programmer Gideon May
• allows participants to build and explore virtual
  worlds
• world generator
• "recombinant poetics" computer based works
  enabling exploration of media elements in
  different orders and combinations
• establish connections between his projects and
  literary experiments of OULIPO.
• he investigates navigable combination of text and
  image in projects such as PASSAGE SETS /ONE PULLS
  PIVOTS AT THE TIP OF THE TONGUE
• allows users to create multimedia poem of
  words/images/sounds/media clips
• continues this work through THE HYBRID INVENTION
  GENERATOR

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installations construction of virtual worlds
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• architect, Peter Anders, "Envisioning Cyberspace"
  argues
• "what we experience as space is actually the
  product of complex mental processes
• cyberspace is an extension of consciousness.
• talks about perception and cognition as being a
  part of looking at the characteristics of virtual
  space
• ex Jeffrey Shaws The Golden Calf, 1994.

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installations construction of virtual worlds
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• Jeffrey Shaw THE GOLDEN CALF 1994 pp.95
• consists of a pedestal and a color screen that
  shows a virtual sculpture of a golden calf.
• users can view calf from all sides by moving the
  monitor around the pedestal.
• users may also see themselves reflected on the
  screen, adding a doubling of the mirror effect
  and blurring boundaries between real and virtual
  worlds.

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SOUND PROJECTS.
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sound musichistory
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• computer generated music had a large impact on
  the evolution of technologies and concepts of
  interactivity as well as being linked to history
  of electronic music.
• Some people that are important to the development
  of digital sound music are
• John Cage who worked with found sound and rules.
• Pierre Schaeffer coined the phrase, "musique
  concrete" which means, composing with materials
  from existing collection of experimental sounds.
• Brain Eno who creates ethereal sound
  environments.
• Laurie Anderson who is an audio/visual,
  installations/performance artist.

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sound musicpure sound art
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• There are many artistic digital sound and music
  projects that
• are referred to as pure sound art, these
  include
• audio visual installation environments and
  software
• internet based projects that allow for
  real-time/multi-user compositions/remixes
• networked projects that involve public places or
  nomadic devices
• many projects include sound components without
  being
• specifically focused on musical aspects.

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sound musicaudio visual installation
environments and software
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• Golan Levin
• Composer, artist, performer engineer
• He is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab.
• AUDIOVISUAL ENVIRONMENT SUITE
• It is interactive software that allows for
  creation manipulation of simultaneous visuals
  sound in real-time.
• The software consists of five interfaces ( for
  audio-visual composition that allow users to
  create abstract visual forms accompanied by
  sounds).
• Each interface is different in its relation
  between audio and visual as well as the users
  movement of the mouse factering in.
• Its goal is to establish an organic/fluid
  connection between audio/visual.

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sound musicmulti-user composition and remixes
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• John Klima
• Uses the concepts of multi-user environments,
  gaming file sharing.
• GLASBEAD 1999
• It is a multi-user collaborative musical
  interface
• It allows up to 20 players to jam with each other
  at one time
• The instrument allows user to import sound files
  create your own soundscapes
• There is a rotating/circular structure with stems
  that look like hammers and bells
• The sound files are imported into the bells and
  are activated when the hammer hits the bell.

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sound musicnetworked projects that involve
public places or nomadic devices
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• Golan Levin 9 collaborators TELESYMPHONY 2001
• nomadic devices, created sound from choreographed
  ringing of audiences mobile phones
• audience registered phone numbers at web kiosk
  before event, receiving a ticket giving seat
  assignment in concert hall
• new ring tones were automatically downloaded to
  cell phones
• audience became a distributed melody in cellular
  space
• At times nearly 200 phones were ringing
  simultaneously.

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sound musicnetworked projects that involve
public places or nomadic devices

• Max Neuhaus
• experiments with network sound and music
  performance
• networked sound as "virtual architecture"
• PUBLIC SUPPLY
• created a layered audio environment
• establish. a connection between WBAI radio
  station in NY and the telephone network (20 mile
  radius around NYC)
• participants could intervene in performance by
  making a phone call.

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sound music interactive installations, sound
sculptures

• Chris Chafe Greg Niemeyer PING 2001
• audio-networking project driven by data traveling
  over the internet
• sound is created by Ping commands which contact
  servers to see if a connections can be
  established provide a form of measuring time
  distance
• Ping translates time lag of data flow into
  audible information
• users can pick instruments and scales or
  influence speaker configurations, and add to or
  change the list of web sites to be "pinged".

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sound music interactive installations, sound
sculptures
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• Toshio Iwai PIANO - as image media
• A virtual score is used to trigger the keys of a
  piano, which produce the projecting of
  computer-generated images onto a screen.
• The score is written by users positioning the
  dots on a moving grid projected in front of the
  piano.
• Audio and video are produced by the users
  assembling a pattern of dots.
• It establishes connections between both
  notation, sound and visuals, as well as between
  the mechanical and virtual.