Interactive Cinema

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Interactive Cinema

• What do you mean Interactive?What do you mean
  Cinema?

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What is interactivity in this context ?

• Complicated question with multiple answers1
  Viewer can make narrative choices2 Often means
  multimedia3 More Information available outside
  image4 New narrative logics5 Deconstruction of
  cinema6 Gaming coming close to cinema7 New
  relationship between audience and producer8 New
  distribution channels we are all producers

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• All the computers we are familiar with have
  GUIs
• Graphical User Interfaces

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We Make Memories Abbe Don 89-95

• CD Rom

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• As my great-grandmother told stories, she weaved
  in and out of the past and present, the old
  country and America, English and Yiddish,
  business and family, changing voice from first
  person to direct address to third person. Each
  detail was part of the narrative continuum and
  potentially linked to several other stories or
  digressions, some of them new, some of which I
  had heard before. However, both content and
  meaning were affected by the context the
  presence of other visitors, whether we were
  baking together, looking at photos in her
  scrapbook, or if I interrupted the flow of the
  story to ask for more details.

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• I have used my great-grandmother's storytelling
  style as a model of interactivity to reveal how
  our family history has been constructed and
  passed down matrilinearly from my
  great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my
  mother, to me. A pictorial timeline of family
  photographs that date from 1890 to the present
  enables viewers to move through time on the
  Macintosh screen. Viewers can click on each
  photograph to hear a short description or story.
  In addition, by clicking on one of the head
  shots, viewers hear video stories from my
  great-grandmother, my grandmother, my mother, and
  me which juxtaposed, serve as a feminist and
  cultural critique of issues. These issues include
  the role of women in Jewish families, the impact
  of assimilation on cultural and religious
  practice, and the changing status of women's
  education.

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• We Make Memories is shown often in art galleries
  and museums as an interactive video installation.
  I recreate my great-grandmother's sitting room by
  placing framed, formal black and white portraits
  on the wall. The computer monitor and mouse rest
  atop an old wooden writing desk. The desk is
  covered with family snapshots tucked neatly under
  a piece of glass. The intimate family setting
  helps reinforce the warmth and intimacy of the
  stories.

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Interactive Storytelling

• 1 Viewer can make narrative choices2 Often
  Implies multimedia3 More Information available
  outside imageNon-linear movie structure -
  Hypertext movieMyst

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Peeping Tom Julie Myers 96

• http//www.julie9.org/peepingtom/

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• Peeping Tom is based on a floor plan of my own
  home and filled with the voices and conversations
  of my friends and family. The site is cluttered
  with letters, bills, lists, diary extracts, phone
  messages, and domestic objects. The visitor
  navigates around by rummaging through the
  drawers, deciding what to wear, raiding the
  fridge and listening to juicy bits of gossip.
• Based on storytelling traditions, the site
  explores how we reveal ourselves, our histories
  and our desires via the internet, as both the
  observer and the observed.

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• " The exciting aspect of the internet for me is
  the opportunity for artist/audience exchange.
  Peeping Tom is about two years old now and I
  still get up every Sunday morning , make a cup of
  coffee and sit at my computer to read the new
  stories, pant problems and cocktail recipes from
  that week. It can make me laugh out loud for
  hours, or sometimes cry - its always inspiring
  and often moving to think of the diversity and
  generosity of the unknown audience. - Julie
  Myers

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Whats new?

• New relationship between audience and
  producerPeople produce content for the website
  which fosters involvement and intimacy.

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Telematic Dreaming -Paul Sermon 92
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Telematic Dreaming

• This work consisting of two double beds in
  different locations. One bed is within a
  blue-screen environment the other, in a darkened
  space. Both beds have cameras above them and are
  surrounded by monitors each bed has one person
  lying in it. The darkened bed has a digital
  projector above it that projects onto it a live
  video image of the person on the blue-screen bed.
  Thus, the camera above the darkened bed captures
  the image of both people on one bed, sending the
  image to the monitors in the blue-screen room. A
  further surreal twist is added by the addition of
  pre-recorded video mixed into the live
  projections, for example, when the bed surface is
  blended with an image of water in a swimming
  pool.

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• Telematic Dreaming, with its connotations of
  intimacy and dream states, extends telepresence
  beyond the screen to spatialize the site of
  interaction and transform it into a live
  theatrical event in which visitors are key
  performers. The work explores presence, absence
  and the psychology of human interaction within
  technologically mediated communications.

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• New narrative logics - TheatreNew relationship
  between audience and producer- We are physically
  in the piece

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Paint-Cam - Daniel Rozin - 2003

• http//www.smoothware.com/danny/newpaintcam.html

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Paint-Cam - Daniel Rozin - 2003

• Custom software running on a computer connected
  to the internet. Size - variable. Paint-Cam is
  similar in concept to Easel. The visitors are
  invited to create their own collage using various
  video sources. This time the video sources are
  not local but rather 50 web cameras from around
  the world. The web cameras are located in famous
  locations such as Eiffel Tower and Times Square,
  and also in private settings such as a
  barber-shop in Japan.

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• New narrative logics maybe this is not cinema
  anymore but something elseNew relationship
  between audience and producer. We are in control

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How I Learned (1-4) - McCoy 2002
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How I Learned (1-4) - McCoy 2002
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How I Learned (1-4) - McCoy 2002

• Jennifer and Kevin McCoy have exhaustively
  catalogued all the individual shots from all of
  the episodes of the 1970s television show Kung Fu
  and recompiled the shots according to genres (see
  the artist's statement for a complete listing).
  The clips are exhibited on over 100 CDs which are
  colour-coded and from which the viewer can choose
  to watch lessons about Nature and Society,
  Religion, Capitalism and Filmmaking. Within
  these groupings, one can select discs with titles
  such as How I learned to complain about my job
  and How to walk ceremoniously among dozens of
  other categories.

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• HOW TO FEEL ANGUISHHOW TO SPEAK IN APHORISMSHOW
  TO APPRECIATE PEACEFUL MUSICHOW TO BE
  DISSAPPOINTEDHOW TO BE EVILHOW TO BE
  OBSERVANTHOW TO BOWHOW TO LIVE WITH CANDLESHOW
  TO CELEBRATEHOW TO COMFORTHOW TO COMMUNICATE
  INFORMATIONHOW TO CONCENTRATEHOW TO CORRECT A
  MISTAKEHOW TO DIEHOW TO DISCIPLINE THE BODYHOW
  TO DISCIPLINE THE MIND

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• HOW TO ENROLL IN SCHOOLHOW TO EXPERIENCE
  SOLITUDEHOW TO EXPRESS GOOD INTENTIONSHOW TO
  PERFORM FEATS OF STRENGTHHOW TO FEEL PAIN HOW
  TO FIGHT TRAININGHOW TO FIND THE PATH OF
  UNDERSTANDINGHOW TO GIVE WISE ADVICEHOW TO
  GREET IMPORTANT PEOPLEHOW TO GROOMING
  PRACTICESHOW TO INSPIREHOW TO LISTENHOW TO
  MAINTAIN COMPOSUREHOW TO MAKE A CHOICEHOW TO
  USE MEDICINAL PLANTSHOW TO MEDITATE

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• HOW TO MOVE GRACEFULLYHOW TO RECOUNT
  MYTHOLOGYHOW TO PERFORM A RITUALHOW TO PLAN A
  STRATEGYHOW TO PRACTICE BALANCEHOW TO PRAYHOW
  TO HAVE QUICK REACTIONSHOW TO REBEL AGAINST
  EVILHOW TO RECEIVE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTIONHOW TO
  REMAIN SILENTHOW TO REMAIN STILLHOW TO REMEMBER
  THE PASTHOW TO RESTHOW TO SHARPEN THE
  SENSESHOW TO SHOW RESPECT HOW TO SMILE

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• HOW TO SPEAK CALMLYHOW TO BE A SPIRITUAL
  GUIDEHOW TO SURRENDERHOW TO DRINK TEAHOW TO
  TEACH A LESSONHOW TO USE A TEMPLEHOW TO TURN
  THE OTHER CHEEKHOW TO USE SYMBOLSHOW TO
  WAITHOW TO WALK CEREMONIALLYHOW TO WALK
  PURPOSEFULLYHOW TO WALK SLOWLYHOW TO WATCHHOW
  TO WEAR ROBESHOW TO WITHSTAND THE ELEMENTSHOW
  TO WORK UNTIL EXHAUSTION

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• Viewer can make narrative choicesMore
  Information available outside imageNew
  relationship between audience and
  producerDeconstruction of cinemaNew narrative
  logicsDatabase Cinema

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Grafik Dynamo - Armstrong Tippett 2005

• http//turbulence.org/Works/dynamo/index.htmlGra
  fik Dynamo is a net art work by Kate Armstrong
  Michael Tippett that loads live images from blogs
  and news sources on the web into a live action
  comic strip. The work is currently using a feed
  from LiveJournal. The images are accompanied by
  narrative fragments that are dynamically loaded
  into speech and thought bubbles and randomly
  displayed. Animating the comic strip using
  dynamic web content opens up the genre in a new
  way Together, the images and narrative serve to
  create a strange, dislocated notion of sense and
  expectation in the reader, as they are sometimes
  at odds with each other, sometimes perfectly in
  sync, and always moving and changing. The work
  takes an experimental approach to open ended
  narrative, positing a new hybrid between the flow
  of data animating the work and the formal
  parameter that comprises its structure.

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• New narrative logicsDatabase Cinema

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Myst
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Flickr

• http//www.flickr.com/
• Photo Sharing service Groups

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Flickr - Camera Toss

• http//www.flickr.com/groups/cameratoss/
• http//cameratoss.blogspot.com/
• This is a "technique" group, and the technique
  here is regarded by some as insanity. For we are
  the reckless folks on flickr that enjoy the
  abstract, chance, generative, physical
  photography that results from throwing our
  cameras into the air (most often at night in
  front of varied light sources).It is about
  trading risk for reward in the pursuit of art. It
  is not about being a photographer, it is about
  enabling the photography that happens naturally
  when you let go of the process, give up control,
  and add a hell of a lot more variables. It is
  about physics, gravity, angular momentum,
  acceleration, direction, chaos, and timing...
  most of which you have tenuous control of at
  best!

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Infinite Flickr

• http//flickr.com/groups/infinite/
• A picture of someone using flickr to see a
  picture of someone else using flickr to see a
  picture of someone else using flickr to see a
  picture of someone else using flick to see a
  ...... ad infinitum.Flickr Social software

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DVblog.org

• DVblog.org is a Vlog and platform for artists and
  scholars for presenting or publishing stand-alone
  and other quicktime works. The site is also a
  resource and archive for digital video art, net
  cinema and experimental moving image projects.

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New Global Vision

• http//www.ngvision.org/Close your eyes and
  imagine being a proud internet user with a DSL
  connection. Now imagine being a videomaker you
  enjoy your handy consumer camera and edit short
  videos from your laptop. Now imagine being
  someone who cares about having interesting films
  and videos to watch wouldn't it be nice to be
  part of a network that gives you the chance to
  upload your video productions, share your visions
  and download video and films that you can't see
  anywhere else?

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• New relationship between audience and
  producerNew distribution channels we are all
  producers

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What is Interactive Cinema?

• 1 Viewer can make narrative choices2 Often means
  multimedia3 More Information available outside
  image4 New narrative logics5 Deconstruction of
  cinema6 Gaming coming close to cinema7 New
  relationship between audience and producer8 New
  distribution channels we are all producers

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Qualities of New Media - (Manovich)

• Numerical Representation and Manipulation-
  analogue audio and vision broken into discrete
  units (digitisation)
• Modularity- individual media units that can be
  accessed independently i.e. pixels or object
  orientated programming
• Automation- media becomes programmable for
  complex repetitive tasks
• Variability- infinitely reconfigurable - liquid
  quality of new media
• Cultural Transcoding- exchange of concepts
  between between culture and computing