Thank you for your interest, Anastasia,
In my first approach to the erratic viewpoint project I used a "baby cam"
(for which I made a battery pack). The performance took place in Barcelona
on November 14th, 2004.
http://deriva.tv/helium_bcn.2004.ogg
This "out of my control" idea evolved in parallel to other experiments in
which I used IP cameras attached to R/C model
cars<http://www.mediatecaonline.net/mediatecaonline/jsp/actividades/act_showImage.jsp?ID_IDIOMA=es&catno=AC00275&descr=Panor%E1mica%20rob%F3tica:%20ciencia%20y%20arte%20de%20aqu%ED%20/%201&asset=AC00275_004_ICM_001.jpg&titulo=4>.
For instance: Kids playing with the remote control toy car were in fact
streaming audio and video live to the TV set in the bar of a small village
(Maçanet de Cabrenys, 2005).
In Mexico, in 2006, I made the balloon performance with an IP camera.
Unfortunately, some technical problems turned my performance into a failure
with about 300 people in the audience!
And my first smartphone erratic live audio/video streaming and GPS tracking
took place in Barcelona (February 2010), as a poetic protest against the IT
consumerism OFF the Mobile World Congress. http://deriva.tv/btv/
Other people that I know who have been working on similar projects are:
- Gustavo Romano http://gustavoromano.org/pgmx/e-index.htm (he made a
streaming camera balloon piece some months earlier than me April 29th, 2004.
- In 2005, Ira Mowen and Luca Antonucci had an idea to capture an aerial
view of their fair city of San Francisco. After, only a few days of
planning, they strapped a video camera to 30 red, helium-filled balloons
and let it go from the highest point in the city... more at
http://www.theballoonproject.org/
And some other extraordinary art and science work involving helium balloons
that I have learnt about recently thanks to Yasmin:
- Ramon Guardans (et al.) answer to the question Where was the air we
breath now yesterday and the day before… ?
http://www.intercreate.org/2011/04/where-was-the-wind/
- Leif Brush, And his Terrain Instruments which include a Helium filled
Balloon w/suspended spy camera hovering (the tree)...
http://weblackwhole.net/
Finally, I'd like to add that this Deriva project of mine is part of my
ongoing interactive communication studies (on the evolution of presence,
agency and affordances) and related to a Theory of the Virtual
Subjectiveness from which this paper (focused on VR) was a first attempt:
Parés, N., Parés, R. "Towards a Model for a Virtual Reality Experience: the
Virtual Subjectiveness." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Vol 15.5., Pag. 524-538, 2006.
Cheers,
r.
2012/5/2 Anastasia Karandinou <a.karandinou@gmail.com>:
> Hi Roc and Yasminers!
>
> I'm very much interested in your balloon-photo-taking idea and I was
> wondering if you could give me some link (apart from this one you've given
> here) to find out some more information.
>
> I'm working on some papers on the idea of the evolution of the 'objet
> trouvé' into projects that generate mechanisms for randomly capturing
> aspects of spaces, and I would like to refer to your project in one paper
i
> am working on at the moment if that was ok with you.
>
>
> Many thanks and all the best with the fantastic projects!
>
> Anastasia
>
> --
> Dr. Anastasia Karandinou
> Lecturer in Architectural Design
> University of Portsmouth
> tel. +44 (0) 2392842902, +44 (0) 7804531763
> Room 2.20, Portland Building, Portland Street,
> School of Architecture
> PO1 3AH, Portsmouth, UK
> www.karandinou.com
>
>
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