IDAT506- Synthesis

- 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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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: Dickie, George. Art and the Aesthetic. London: Cornell University Press, 1974. p.20:Imitation theory -> deal w/ subj matter, Expression Theory -> deal w/ emotion Art as representational e.g painting, sculpture => imitation theory.. “The imitation theory focused on a readily evident relational property of works of art, namely, art’s relation to subject matter.”...
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p.24: For Lev Manovich….the Internet is an agent of modernisation, enabling participation in global consumer culture. p.139: “media art does not use the computer as a tool but as its subject matter, using a technology to engage in thinking about that technology.” => Like InterVis, technology help to bring the interaction to another stage,...
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