Saturday, April 14, 2012

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] moderation this week

thanks Roc
I can certainly relate- with ehtusiasm- to the balloon, gps and
subsequent tracking...may I share some concepts & images w/you.
weblackwhole.net

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Sus <susannagg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Roc and Yasminers,
>
> I think perhaps you may find interesting these links about New Aesthetic:
>
> http://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2012/03/13/godhelpus/#sxaesthetic
>
> http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/
>
> http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2012/04/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic/#comments
>
> (An interesting discussion about the topic has just started at CRUMB list.)
>
> Also you may want to have a look at this book review by Rob Myers about the
> glitch aesthetics (in the sense of "glitch" as noise, thus "uncontrolled")
>
> http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/glitch-momentum
>
> I would be glad to know your opinions.
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> (Ps. I am quite a silent but a dedicated reader in the list.)
>
> susanna.
>
>
> On 11 April 2012 18:41, Roc Parés i Burguès <roc.pares@upf.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Monica and hello to all Yasmine friends,
>>
>> There's something that I'd like to share with the list since I'm working on
>> this idea about images which are somehow out of control and hence I'd love
>> to have some (practitioner to practitioner) discussion. Here it goes:
>>
>> Last month I was kindly invited by Laboratoire Paragraphe, Université PARIS
>> 8, to make a live performance of mine called Deriva (Catalan word for
>> "drifting"). The action began with a social situation in which a group of
>> people gathered in a public space and spent time together talking, laughing
>> and filling up a bunch of party balloons with helium. After a while, I took
>> a smartphone, turned on its GPS and activated an ordinary live audio/video
>> streaming application. When we had about a hundred helium filled balloons,
>> I attached the smartphone to them and let it go, up in the sky, out of my
>> control.
>> After we lost visual contact with them, we walked into a classroom, we sat
>> in front of a computer, opened a web browser and followed the live
>> streaming of the drifting smartphone as well as its trace on a map. After
>> we lost this virtual contact (probably due to restrictions of my prepaid
>> data sim card), I manipulated the resulting video file simply by inverting
>> the frame order, and here is the result: http://deriva.tv
>>
>> Thank you for reading, watching and (perhaps) commenting.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> r.
>> --
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