Coming performance & talk: InterVis 2.0: The Screen. In collaboration with Eva Pang (Performance Artist) & dj contort (UK Sound Artist) like the idea of the venue-club, as it is talking about performance in theatre / gallery space / social club, how to break the boundary between performer + audience explore site-specific objects in...
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- selected news and blog content over the period Oct 2009 to Jan 2010 - 5 different languages version - feeds from Google API, news and blog come from individual users and platform - Is it too explicit? My work need more explanation? > Yahoo bebel fish translation problem (see Traditional and Simplified Chinese,...
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1) Thesis: The transmediation of Object-Based Interactive Digital Media 2) Practice-based research project: 5-stars’ identity >>Download whole package/source files here 3) Video documentation on 5-stars’ identity: final documentation: http://vimeo.com/7085922 Logic details: http://vimeo.com/6830496 5-stars’ identity from soon @ media art on Vimeo. 5-stars’ identity...
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Features: 1) Phones performance: When new message arrived from BT connection, it will light on, vibrate and alert message tone 2) application in Mac will act as control, extract from db for newly insert records, pass to various phone with different languages using Bluetooth communication technology (RFCOMM) 3) PHP in MAC will constantly scan...
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Task: - check out mySQL db, select and update mySQL data - establish BT communication protocol: PC as server -> bluetooth communicate with designated 5 mobile deice - send different encoding text to different designated BT mac address of mobile device - mobile device display text + vibrate + light on - auto delete...
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Logic: PC: - PHP: RSS + translate program with WIFI connection and store in mySQL (must be mySQL 5.0 and php 5.0+) - PC app: query the mySQL for any new marker, extract the text content and pass to Phone 1-5 via BT with delay function, after all send out message, update the db...
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- now the text extraction is kind of drop by google, investigate if a complete sentence can be extracted. - how to make the audience easily reconize and understand different language translation - can we use SMS instead of Web browser? - To fix the communication flow, should be translate step by step (this...
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![5-stars’ identity [Technical] Online Babel Fish translation](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3806538200_2d10ce4434_o.png)
Logic of translation: Phase 1: >> English as a source: Greek -> Chinese-Trad -> Japanese -> Chinese-Simplified -> English Testing link here: http://x2.i-dat.org/~ws/5stars/translator1/example.php Final test link integration with main program: http://x2.i-dat.org/~ws/5stars/rsslib/rsslib3.php HTML code on selection box in Yahoo Babel Fish: <option value=“en_zh”>English to Chinese-simp</option> <option value=“en_zt”>English to Chinese-trad</option> <option value=“en_ja”>English to Japanese</option> <option value=“en_el”>English...
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Reference: Wolff, Janet. “Aesthetics and the Sociology of art” Bottomore, T.B and Mulkay, M.J., eds. London: George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, 1983. p.33: “Proponents (建議者) of this theory usually base their critique of traditional aesthetics on the argument that the text(or painting, or any cultural work) has no fixed meaning, but that meaning...
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Reference: Kotz, Liz (2004). “Video Projection: The Space Between Screens” in Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985. Leung, Zoya and Simon Kocur (ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons Inc. p.102: “projection is a form of geometry modeled on properties of light rays: it allows us to plot from a fixed point, any...
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