Reference: http://status.irational.org/visualisation/maps/
http://status.irational.org/visualisation/portraits/
Artist: Heath Bunting (UK)
Project:
“intends to make visible these systems and facilitate easy movement within them. ”
=> remind me on the module of visualization, which is to visualize meta data, to see the unseen!
- exploring a chaotic world in the midst of enormous change and modernization, viewing with a canny perspective its many contradictions and contrasts.
-fuelled by a rapidly growing domestic economy and intense levels of global interest.
[to be continued]
Reference: http://johannesluderschmidt.de/lang/en-us/the-multi-touch-table-virttable/153/
- projection from bottom source w/ mirror reflection
Reference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/annaihle
<work journal on copy paper, glue, metal and cardboard frame>
Met Anna in Stavanger’s artist residency and got a chance to see her works. She normally use daily experience and daily object to explore on materials. Works are as simple as it is, she did work on visualization as well. (just stamp on paper to count the daily received sms), a very elegant way on presentation, simple but just feel comfortable in seeing the works.
2009 Drawing and stamp on paper (30 x 25)cm x 10
Sketch book is very impt for designer and artist for the work-in-progress.
Reference: Gere, Charlie. Art, Time and Technology. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2006.
Into:
p.3- space and time relationship, “meeting at a distance, in other words, being tlepresent, at the same time, in this so-called ‘real time’, however, nothing but a kind of real space-time, since the different events do indeed take place’
p.4- ‘time- more precisely, the dimension of the present’
p.4- “Inside the computers themselves everything becomes a number: quantity without image,sound, or voice. And once optical fiber networks turn formerly distinct data flows into a standardized series of digitized numbers, any medium can be translated into any other.” “Modulation, transformation, synchronization: delay, storage, transposition; scrambling, scanning, mapping - a total media link on a digital base will erase the very concept of medium. ” (Kittler, 1999: I-2)
p.5 - “both personal and social memory today are affected by an emerging new structure of temporarily generated by the quickening pace of material life on the one hand, and by acceleration of media images and information on the other.”
p.5- “Our obsessions with memory functions as a reaction formation against the accelerating technical processes that is transforming our Lebenswelt(lifeworld) in quite distinct ways.” (ibid: 7)
Ch1 Breaking the Time Barrier
p.18- “and the whole of human linguistic apparatus becomes a single instrument for expressing and preserving thought - which itself is channeled increasingly toward reasoning” (ibid: 210)
“writing thus tends toward the constriction of images, toward a stricter linearization of symbols.” … “a mental symbol can be noted in both word and gesture by a single process. …it avoids the wastefulness of symbols that is still characteristic of Chinese writing, and it parallels the process adopted by technics over the course of its development.”
=> for 5 stars using Traditional Chinese, one of the reason because they are derived by symbols,
Ch3 The writing of Van Gogh
p.53- “Greek telegraphos, ‘I write at a distance’ (Silverman, 2003: 420)”…”Transforamtion in the means of communication and concomitant shifts in how language and writing operated and were understood, which took place between 1800 and the 1840s and coincided with the emergence of new, more efficient and faster means to circulate signs, goods and people.”
p.54- “What was traded was information rather than actual products.” (Carey, 1989: 217-20)
p.54- “the progressive divorce of the signifier from the signified, a process in which the world of signifiers progressively overwhelms and moves independently of real material objects’ (ibid.:220)
=> sometimes we use symbol or virtual stuff to replace with real material objects, such as give a gift in facebook that we are not actually doing that, but this can represent the real object.
=>p.54 “Above all it offered a means of almost instantaneous communication over great distances”
p.54- “Kittler makes a similar pt….’writing was no longer the handwritten, continuous, transition from nature to culture. It became selection from a countable, spatialized supply’ (ibid.: 194)” -> Friedrich Kittler
p.60- “signs would have a natural relationship with things in the world (Rosenheim, 1997: 53-4). The decoding of hieroglyphs held a particular fascination for those interested in language and writing.”
Ch5 John Cage’s Early Warning System
p.97- “Shannon adopted the term ‘entropy’ from thermo-dynamics to refer to the measure of a communication system’s efficiency in transmitting a signal…For Shannon the greater the disorder, or higher the entropy of a message, the more choices are available and therefore the more information that the message contains.” => communication?
p.98- “LIke Shannon he reconized that information was bound up with uncertainty. A message is made up of a series of individual elements that make no sense in themselves. Until a message is completed its meaning is uncertain. Only as the sequence unfolds is its meaning made progressively clearer. At any one point along the sequence there is a range of possibilities for what might come next, ranging from the porbable to the improbable.”
p.103: “The rise of computer multimedia as a publicly available media form is, arguably, an epipheonomenon of this process of transformation.”
p.104- “Ernst Junger and Maurice Blanchot described as ‘the breaking of the time barrier.’, the point where technology overhauls culture and brings the very existence of history and the human into question.”
Ch6 Art in real Time
efficient communication, transmission of signs
p.127- “The art object is, in effect, an information ‘trigger’ for mobilizing the information cycle. Making, promoting, and buying art are the real-time activities. That is to say, they happen within the day-to-day flow of normal experience. Only Art Appreciation happens in ideal, nonexistential time. (ibid.:28)”
p.129 - From Burnham “the continued evolution of both communication and control technologies bodes a new type of aesthetic relationship, very different from the one way communication of traditional art appreciation as we know it…[t]he’aesthetics of intelligent systems’ could be considered as a dialogue where two systems gather and exchange information so as to change constantly the states of each other.”
ch.7 Is it Happening
p. 141- ‘all objects are messages’ -> ” any modification in the function of one of the poles leads to a destructuring and restructuring of the whole, in which case it becomes another message.” …”Material stands for the support of the message, material for what handles its acquisition, transfer and ollection, or in other words, the receiver, maternity for its sender, matter for its referent, and matrix for the message’s code.” (ibid.: 163-5)
ref p. 142 => information circulates by radiation and invisible interfaces -> radio frequency, the intervention of high-rise building, tunnel, the blocking between mountain for frequency transfer.
=> thinking of an artwork which travel through the city and use of radio frequency, the environmental building, nature interruption is another intervention of the city exploration. Looking in the environmental data, space element in the public area. This is also an invisible data and re-display in an art media, exploration in space and time.
=> come across the word ‘invisible data’ that tie to human activity anytime, where we are co-exist in a physical space. Examine the relationship between me in a city, unknown and new to me and the invisible data. How both of the elements interact with the community and the whole habitat of the space.
=> this can be proposal for residency project
=> for myself, working with a dichotomy on physical object and invisible data. Transmediation between visible data and object, invisible data and media.
p.143- interactivity engaged with sense but not visual
p.147 - “Paul Growther: …an empirical theory about a changed sensibility founded on technoscientific advance on the one hand
p.150 - “Lyotard suggested that the issue is that, in modernity or postmodernity, there is a crisis of time and space, as ‘forms of donation of what happens’ (ibid). For Kant, space and time are a priori forms of intutition, immediately available to us by means of sensibility.”
=> tele and presense
further reading:
- For Lyotard on the avant-garde, see J-F. Lyotard, ‘The Sublime and the avant-garde‘ in The Lyotard Reader, ed. A. Benjamin (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989), pp.196-211.
Reference: Aesthetic experience by Francois J. Sirois
- relationship with object
- “Phaedrus, Plato (2005)” link beauty with love
- “appealing to sight”
- Hanly (1986) -> two aesthetic tendencies - form and content=>
=> link up with Lev manovich for the aesthetic interface
=> for interactivity, spectator (audience) “shares the phantasy of the creator through the work” => feeling of involvement
- “admiration”
- “goes beyond a pure pleasure”
- “sublimation”
- “the aesthetic experience is an ego-state which, through the underlying identification, presupposes some sort of relation with an internal or external object, represented by the art object, which acts on the subject.”
- “Reparation- Klein (1930) she posited that sublimation is based on an initial identification permitting the symbolism at the basis of all sublimation.”
=> for object-based media, initially they tie with existing function and ideology, however in the work of art, the shift from original function to re-representation make the whole work on sublimation => further on the aesthetic experience.
-”The attempts to save the loves object, to repair and restore it …are determining factors for all sublimations and the whole of the ego-development. In this connection, I shall only mention the specific importance for sublimation of the bits to which the loves object has been reduced and the effort to put them together. It is a ‘perfect’ object which is in pieces; thus the effort to undo the state of disintegration..presupposes the necessity to makt it beautiful and ‘perfect’.”
=> can we say to transform it?
=> the lighting, space, setup will cause the overall experience
- Object-relationship > Bollas (1987) Shadow of the Object > “aesthetic experience contains within it the memory of a primitive relationship, as a reactualized recollection of an archaic (古老的) experience with the maternal object, wherein the subject, without words and without memory, relives a situation which can only be expressed through a particular mood.”
=> object-based media that use well-known object, a state of memory of a primitive relationship, for example of the yellow bb, then we remember we use this object in war game and trigger certain memories with its function. This establish another set of relationship between the object and the audience, for further extension.
-:It is the recollection of this relationship that is at play in the aesthetic experience of contemplation.” “the search for this transformation in its symbolic equivalent, as something which is not at first perceived as a representation but rather as the search for an affective state of an infraverbal, unthought and unrepresented experience.”
=> the impactful of object-based media is the reuse of familar object and represent in a totally different context, a metaphor or symbol to represent another matter.
-’object which transforms the state of experience.”
-”aesthetic contemplation (注視)”
=> the real time and subverting interactivity also contribute to the aesthetic experience.
-”The aesthetic experience is linked to senstation and under the sway(影響)of the perception of an external object: a melody, an image or an expression catches the individual’s attention and he is then grasped by it.”
- ‘This initial impression is connected with a situation of passive receptivity, certainly proceeding from an active movement of attention to the object, which requires transformation through a movement of fusion between the external object and the internal experience. This movement is facilitated by a situation of active-passive-active reversal instincts, concerning with Freud (1915, p. 130) underlines the co-existence of the passive and active forms.”
=> applied in object-based media, audience first attached with the object, the movement of logic of the object which triggers further attention to the audience, this create internal experience. Therefore this can be applied Freud concept on passive and active forms.
-”The external object thus becomes an essential mediation which gives substance to the internal expeirence and represents it.”
-’Sublimation will then use the object to convert this experience into perceptual activity in front of the object’
=> contemplation of form -> object -> internal familiar experience -> passive / active form -> sublimation -> change perceptual activity => sensory stimulation
- surrealists where to constitute the aesthetic object, namely, by creating objects, by distorting certain objects in order to accentuate the representative investment. Exaggeration and distortion simply highlight through magnification that which otherwise goes unnoticed in the choice of the object as an aesthetic object.”
=> object-based media and surrealist got a common properties, i.e use of object in a different way. how to bring the unrelated object into a form of context. later one normally is exaggeration and distortion of object to bring in message of unconsciousness, while for former one, it is planned, intentionally , carefully selected object to represent certain aspect.
-”The word fascination evokes a sense of wonder accompanied by an idea of immobilization; a visual shock of the ineffable occurs”
-”the word veneration(崇敬), it translates another aspect of the experience, namely, admiring respect. Immobile contemplation is a familiar reaction to the common experience of being faced with any natural wonder / sublime beauty of a site.”
=> how does the use of existing object induce aesthetic experience?
-”The latin word ‘fascina’….a ‘charm emanating from the look or gaze’”
-”Hagman(2002) thus links fascination with a type of aesthetic experience which he calls tame beauty, i.e a domesticated beauty which makes it possible to soothe tension or anxiety, to offer the illusion of rediscovering something.”
Further research:
Freud S (1915). Instincts and their vicissitudes. SE 14, 111-40 (esp on passive/active)
Hagman G(2002). The sense of beauty. Int J Psychoanal 83: 661-74
Reference: http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/sarah-leslie/transformation.htm
What is transformation b Lynn & Sarah Leslie
“a new seeing, ‘conscious evolution’ and a paradigm change’
“The Greek word for biblical ‘transformation’ is metamorphoo, from which we get the English word metamorphosis: i.e., a complete change, such as a catepillar turing into a butterfly.”
“in reality the word ‘transformation’ now indicates a societal, cultural and global revolution.’
“This transformation is to be accomplished by a ‘mission’ strategy of doing ‘whatever it takes’ to launch political, social, and cultural reforms on a global scale. ”
=> constant change, global, reform => complete change
RSS Technical and development procedure:
1) connect db.php => OK
2) extract logic: (may get headline for 1st phrase)
- autorefresh (for 120 seconds) => OK
- scan defined news/forum/blog which match specific key words with the past 120 seconds => OK
=> if no news is grab, then wait for refresh => ok
=> define keywords and URL => OK
- chop the title and content => selected text, count characters
- check if any duplication in mySQL db
=> If yes => ignore this entry
=> if no => store in mySQL db (insert db) => OK
=> tigger another php function for language translation
3) db fields
- language1 / text
- language2 / text
- language3 / text
- language4 / text
- language5 / text
- upload timestamp (now)
- title (headline)
- content
- source URL
- posttime
- id
4) Display php (optional)
Reference / testing:
The Anatomy of an RSS Feed
Creating a Custom RSS Feed with PHP and MySQL
Testing on 26-Jun-2009: http://x2.i-dat.org/~ws/5stars/rsslib/rsslib2.php
All the technical reference development: http://delicious.com/siusoon/5stars
Side Details:
Create table in mySQL-
id = key
timestamp = update time
type = blog or news
text = keywords extracted text
url = url for record
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dat
Reference: http://www.newpolitics.net/about/context/transformation
The Technology and Media Transformation of our time compared to Broadcast TV
New medium => cultural and social impact
“The powerful media of television….was used for more long-term social and political purposed to shift public opinon and gain citizen support in the solving the massive challenges of that time” e.g the rise of the Soviet Union, the spread of communism and the threat of nuclear war.
“The interface is more transformative than broadcast….media distribution system…directly affecting all existing media sectors” => internet as convergence digital media platform, at the end pda, video iPOD, computer..etc all things link to the pool of internet to extract on the content from anywhere and anytime.The infrastructure is extending into a wireless platform, all the things are globally connected with each other.
“It is allowing precise targeting to individual viewers. It is bringing interaction and immediate feedback from customers.” “The Internet is not just a conduit to people but a tool for them to reach back and reach others.”
=>” fundamentally change the way you reach consumers and audience”
Reference: http://www.voyd.com/ttlg/textual/manovichtext.htm
“if in ‘meatspace’ we have to work to remember, in cyberspace we have to work to forget.”
=> example of deletion in desktop
“In the 1990s, as the Internet progressively grew in polularity, the role of a digital computer shifted from being a particular technology (a calculator, a symbol processor, an image manipulator, etc.) to being a filter to all culture, a form through which all kinds of cultural and artistic production is being mediated.”
“In semiotic terms, the computer interface acts as code which carries cultural messages in a variety of media.”
“In cultural communication, a code is rarely simply a neutral transport mechanism; usually it affects the messages transmitted with its help”
“A code may also provide its own model of the world, its own logical system, or ideology; subsequent cultural messages.”
“non-transparency of the code” - Whorf-Sapir hypothesis
=> information and industrial society => now iwth internet, we work on the same interface.
“In the nineteenth century Karl Marx imagined that a future communist state would overcome this work-leisure divide as well as the highly specialized and piece-meal character of modern work itself.”
‘In human-computer interface….how does this affect the functioning of cultural objects in general and art objects in particular?
“content & interface…content is assumed to exist before its material expression….modern artists assumed taht content and form can’t be seperated.”
“new media artworks have more traditional ‘experiential’ or aesthetic dimensions, which justifies their status as art rather than as information design. These dimensions include a particular configuration of space, time, and surface articulated in the work; a particular sequence of user’s activities over time to interact with the work; a particular formal, material and phenomenological user experience. And it is the work’s interface that creates its unique materiality and the unique user experience.”
=> content and interface merge into one entity. “the idea of content pre-existing the interface is challengined in yet another way by new media artworks which dynamically generate their data in real time.”
“a programmer setups some initial conditions, rules or procedures which control the computer program generating the data.”
“the interaction between a number of simple objects at run time leads to the emergence of complex global behaviors. …they can’t be predicted beforehand.”
“The evolution paradigm applies the metaphor of the evolution theory to the generation of images, shapes, animations and other media data.”
“The content of an artwork is the result of a collaboration between the artist/programmer and the computer program, or, if the work is interactive, between the artist, the computer program and the user.”
=> 5-stars identity, and the involvement of internet, dynamic complex system
=> content of the data feed is only part of the stream, while the content of this artwork is the result of a collaboration between the artist, the internet user who post the feed and the program itself. This leading to form the global behavior of the mobile phones.”
