Thanks for inviting me to the list.
I'd like to introduce myself:
My name is Travis Kirton, over the past year I've been working as a researcher for the Banff New Media Institute, at the Banff Centre. Prior to this I was an Interaction Designer, focusing on production, development and information / interaction architectures for the Ars Electronica Futurelab. I have studied Interactive Arts at SFU (Vancouver, Canada), and am continuing studies in the Interface Culture program under Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. At the moment, I'm currently participating as an artist in the Liminal Screen residency at the Banff New Media Institute.
I am trying to blend my research and artistic practice in a way that allows me to publish and exhibit in both contexts, where the production of an artwork may result in the development of software or technical concepts and vice versa. The subject of my media art/research focuses on surface interaction, the combination of touch and object interaction, and the concepts I question in my work look at the invisible paradigms of long-established technologies so rooted in our perception that we often take for granted.
The article that Nina recently posted is very interesting for me in that the work looks at cognition from a multi-sensory perspective where sight and touch combine to produce awareness of objects - the results of which provide implications towards the perception of one's environment.
With regard to my own work, I am interested in the visual-haptic for a few reasons:
- with multitouch interfaces there's an incredible space for exploration simply in the perception of fingertips, and dexterity, as input devices and the perception of more personalized involvement with digital media
- similarly, the perception of unique objects as interfaces has received a lot of attention (i.e. tangible user interfaces) and so the shifting identity of objects between tools and representations plays an important role as well
When considered together, the relationship between objects and fingertips opens up an incredibly new dimension for interactivity that can be expressed itself as an artwork or even be the vehicle through which new artforms can be created.
I am currently looking at typography while exploring the perception of the screen as object-touch interfaces and the shifting perceptions of what is now possible.
In the past I've explored interfaces for gaming, where the touch-object relationship breaks down the paradigms of turn-based play, interaction, and object identity.
Hope all is well with everyone, and I look forward to more on this disucssion.
Cheers,
T
On 2010-03-08, at 8:57 PM, nina czegledy wrote:
>
> Hello Jol, Hello All,
>
> thanks for posting re the fascinating transcendental
> cybernetiics aspect of complex systems including
> multisensory perceptions. Hoping to hear more from you.
>
> On sensory perceptions, I found the experiments conducted at the
> Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and published under the title:
> The Process of Perception: A Sensory Puzzle, absorbing.
>
> Abstract: Our brain combines different sources of sensory information
> in the process of perception. There is the possibility that the
> individual sensory components from which the perception was
> originally composed may, in certain circumstances, become
> lost. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biological
> Cybernetics in Tübingen, from the University of California in
> Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and
> from New York University have discovered that this loss occurs
> when differing visual signals are combined. In contrast, in-
> formation arising from different senses, such as from touch and
> sight, can be separated again into its separate components
> (SCIENCE, November 22, 2002)
>
> best
> nina
>
>
>
>>
>> Hello My Name is Jol Thomson,
>>
>> I wanted to introduce myself and my art practice in the field of
>> transcendental cybernetics, investigating the conditions for the possibility
>> of complex systems. Essentially this means the structural examination of
>> the feedback cycle as an imminent and eminent relationship. This is a
>> research and process oriented practice where the spatial, sonic and visual
>> representations reflect upon the concentric multiplicities of the seemingly
>> universal element of the feedback loop in nature, time, space, perception
>> and communication.
>>
>> In terms of multi sensory perception and synaesthesia the matching of the
>> spatial and sensual autopoietic systems leads to interesting relationships
>> and interactions creating phenomenological and neurophysiological responses
>> that may be of interest to both scientists and artists alike. I experiment
>> with complex analog environments, revealing all of the elements of the
>> system. In this way there is nothing left out or hidden from a participator,
>> and yet it remains captivating and mysterious.
>>
>>
>>
>> My practice is experimental, intuitive and playful yet yields results in a
>> specific and concrete way. From a formalist approach, references to
>> abstract expressionism and geometric abstraction are evident, continuing and
>> opening up discussions not yet exhausted. Considering feedback from a
>> structuralist perspective reflection, refraction, and recording are
>> considered as polyvalent and are explored in their multiplicities, opening
>> or continuing transdisciplinary discussions in many of the science, arts and
>> humanities field.
>>
>>
>>
>> Currently a resident at the Banff New Media Institute located in Alberta,
>> Canada, I am investigating the potentials of immersive stereoscopic feedback
>> environments and so far there appears to be some intriguing results. The
>> area of most significance for currently is concentric and parallactic space,
>> where again the term space has many connotations. I feel that presenting
>> space in and on itself transmits or initiates a deeper understanding or
>> awareness of the nesting occurring in all complex systems.
>>
>>
>>
>> I look forward to the lively and intriguing posts.
>>
>>
>> jol thomson
>>
>> --
>>
>> ~www.jolthomson.ca~
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