Week 8 SM1701. Contemporary and New Media Art Professor: David - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

SM1701. Contemporary and New Media Art

Professor: David (Jhave) Johnston david.jhave.johnston --at-- cityu.edu.hk WEBSITE: http://sweb.cityu.edu.hk/sm1701/2012_FALL/Jhave/

Immersion & Paranoia, Surveillance & Transcendence

Week 8

NEXT WEEK: Your blog presentations. Simply show us your blog. Find

• ne or two ideas on your blog

that you find interesting. Relate this to the lectures, course work and general theme of contemporary and new media art. Try to express yourself clearly. Be organized. Know what you are going to show. Each presentation must be a maximum of 1min30sec .

Repeated note: if I am still not following your tumblr account you must send me an email with your name, student #, & blog url. Thanks.

SUGGESTION: Begin thinking about final project.

Final projects take time. Each final project involves a group presentation/performance/installation/website/video/animation. The project can be either imagined (a proposed art-work) or it can be conceptual or it can be actually implemented. Every project will be graded on  originality  complexity  design  concept  implementation  documentation  presentation Everyone must document how they have individually contributed.

TECHNICAL NOTES (for final project): Begin SIMPLE. Begin EARLY.

It will take more time than you imagine. Step 1:  discuss & brainstorm  make doodles and lists of ideas on paper  consider feasibility (tech & time) of each idea  consider power (impact & elegance) of each idea  consider fusing two best ideas  or get rid of everything but the most essential idea Step 2:  make a TODO list of all the steps (equipment, software)  assign members tasks from the TODO list  make some tests in software  document every step with photos and notes on your blog  consult with me early if you have any questions  repeat: documentation is crucial  final step: how will it be presented, why/wht njoy.

OMG Life’s Autographer a camera designed to be clipped onto clothing

• r worn around the neck, taking photos

when it chooses, not you.

Memoto automatically captures a photo every 30 seconds. A built in accelerometer ensures that each photo is correctly oriented regardless of how the camera is positioned. Kickstarter

Everyone watch everyone else. Record what you see. Do not use any names. No identifying words, but write down what you see. Post this info to your blog. Example:“Two rows in front of me a girl scratches her

• nose. The teacher waves his arm. Someone comes in
• late. The slide shows a TV with a line on it. I hear a
• burp. Behind me, a boy uses his laptop. In the front row,

someone is sleeping. The artist under discussion is named: Vasulka. Two people are talking, looking at a cellphone.”

This will count as a week’s work if the post is detailed and corresponds to events that actually occurred in class during the lecture. IF YOU WANT FULL MARKS, WRITE FOR 2/3 OF THE CLASS.

AUTO- MATIC WRITING

SURVEILLANCE EXERCISE #1

SURVEILLANCE EXERCISE #2

LAWS DUTIES ART  EVERYONE IS FREE TO MOVE  NO ONE IS FREE TO TALK  EVERYONE IS FREE TO RECORD VIDEO  NO IS FREE TO LEAVE THIS SPACE  DISPLAY YOUR VIDEOS WITH ARMS STRAIGHT OUT  DISPLAY YOUR VIDEOS CRADLED  WATCH OTHER VIDEOS  RESPECT THE SPACE OF OTHERS  DO ONLY WHAT IS NECESSARY  LISTEN TO THE LECTURE AS YOU WORK  BE INTUITIVE  CONSIDER CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

SURVEILLANCE EXERCISE #2

LAWS DUTIES ART  EVERYONE IS FREE TO MOVE (quietly)  NO ONE IS FREE TO TALK (except me or whn in discussion)  EVERYONE IS FREE TO RECORD VIDEO (except me & of me)  NO IS FREE TO LEAVE THIS SPACE (except for washroom)  DISPLAY YOUR VIDEOS WITH ARMS STRAIGHT OUT  DISPLAY YOUR VIDEOS CRADLED  WATCH OTHER VIDEOS (as you wish)  RESPECT THE SPACE OF OTHERS (mandatory)  DO ONLY WHAT IS NECESSARY  LISTEN TO THE LECTURE AS YOU WORK  BE INTUITIVE  CONSIDER CONCEPTUAL ISSUES

Les Levine Slipcover (1966)

• -first time that viewers are shown images of themselves on monitors….

http://cathiesummerhayes.wetpaint.com/page/Surveillance+Art

Lucas Samaras Mirror Room (1966)

Bruce Nauman Video Corridor (1968)

• - viewers approach thru a

narrow corridor, two monitors, both show images of themselves.

James Turrel Roden Crater (1970 - ) a big camera obscura?

1973 ambient music

Dan Graham Opposing Mirrors and Video Monitors on Time Delay (1974/1993)

Robert Irwin Black Line Volume (1975)

Steina Vasulka All Vision (1976) “A mirrored sphere, positioned in the middle of a crossbar reflects the image

• f surrounding space. Two

video cameras, attached to each end of the crossbar are looking in at the mirrored

• surface. The crossbar —

now an assembly of mirrored sphere and two cameras — slowly rotates on the turntable with cameras

• rbiting the sphere. Since

each camera sees half of the reflected space, the whole space becomes observable.”

Walter De Maria The Lightning Fields (1977) “400 polished stainless steel poles installed in a grid array measuring one mile by one kilometer.”

http://www.diacenter.org/sites/main/lightningfield

Nan Goldin Skinhead with Child (1978)

"This tape records a person (Robert Adrian) in a white cap as he passes by all the surveillance cameras in the (then new) Karlsplatz U-bahn station in Vienna. The tape is an unedited single take of the surveillance monitors by Karl Kowanz who was located in the control room with the attendant. The attendant switched the monitors so that the cameraman could follow the walker through the station system.“ http://alien.mur.at/rax/

Robert Adrian Video Tape (1979)

Robert Adrian Live TV (1981)

Sophie Calle The Shadow (Detective) (1981)

• - artist “asked her mother to hire a detective agency to

follow her, report on her activities and, in the artist’s words, ‘to provide photographic evidence of my existence’…”

(Rush, New Media in Art, p.133)

Robert Adrian Video Installation (1984)

Dieter Froese Not a Model for Big Brother’s Spy Cycle (1987)

• - a gun hanging in the gallery was superimposed over people’s backs….

David Rokeby & Paul Garrin Border Patrol (1995)

Commissioned for the Kwangju Biennale awarded a Prix Ars Electronica award of Distinction in Interactive Art (1997)

David Rokeby & Paul Garrin Border Patrol (1995)

Commissioned for the Kwangju Biennale awarded a Prix Ars Electronica award of Distinction in Interactive Art (1997)

“The piece was made up of a wall, topped with razor-wire, with multiple embedded screens in its face. Four robotic cameras were mounted

• n the wall, each with a secondary tracking
• camera. My software located heads within the

images of the tracking cameras and directed the robotic cameras to follow heads as precisely as possible. The robotic cameras were very fast, and had very long imposing lenses on them. Spookily, as the camera followed you , you were always looking directly down the "barrel" of the lens. The images from the robotic cameras were displayed on the embedded screens, and once the system had locked onto a head, crosshairs would form and the sound of sub-machine gun fire would rip out of the hefty subwoofers behind the wall.”

http://www.davidrokeby.com/border_patrol.html

David Rokeby & Paul Garrin Border Patrol (1995)

Commissioned for the Kwangju Biennale awarded a Prix Ars Electronica award of Distinction in Interactive Art (1997)

We refined the system in a studio space in the East Village in Manhattan. I remember that the first time we got the tracking to work, we were both astonished and shocked by the visceral sense of evil we both felt. We were surprised at later shows to see that people often giggled and checked their hair in the screens as the cross-hairs formed over their heads. We found the system scarier than any later viewer.

http://www.davidrokeby.com/border_patrol.html

Jill Magid Surveillance Shoe (2000) Shoe: High heals, IR surveillance camera, battery pack, wireless transmitter in shoe sole.

“The Surveillance Shoe is a hybridization of surveillance hardware and a pair of high- heeled shoes. A CCD surveillance camera with infrared technology is built into the shoe's design. Due to the fixed position of the camera to the shoe, that leg remains bound within the

• frame. While this leg appears

stable like architecture, the actual architecture becomes

• mobile. ”

Jill Magid System Azure | Rhinestoning Headquarters (2003-ongoing) “Rhinestone encrusted surveillance cameras, posters, public and gallery installations. After inventing her company System Azure Security Ornamentation, Jill Magid hand-glued rhinestones to security cameras at the Amsterdam Headquarters of Police using permanent

• adhesive. Although the
• rnamenting policy was

reversed, the cameras remain in place. ”

Jill Magid Evidence Locker (2004)

“In 2004, Jill spent 31 days in Liverpool, during which time she developed a close relationship with Citywatch (Merseyside Police and Liverpool City Council), whose function is citywide video surveillance- the largest system of its kind in England. The videos in her Evidence Locker were staged and edited by the artist and filmed by the police using the public surveillance cameras in the city

• centre. ”

Jill Magid Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy (2007) Multimedia Installation: Printed book; MTA CCTV dvd's, sound works,

• bjects, and framed digital

photographs.

“Last winter I came back to New York City after living five years abroad. I rented an apartment in Brooklyn and took the subway often. Everyone is in transit, except the officers. I approached one and asked him to search me. I began to accompany this officer on many of his nighttime posts. He was not sure if he could trust me, and I was not sure if I should trust him. We continued to meet despite this. I kept record of our meetings and logged them in different forms. ”

Olafur Eliason The Weather Project 2000

Olafur Eliason The Weather Project 2000

Olafur Eliason The Mediated Motion 2000

Genius / insane ?

"father of wearable computing". Steve Mann Eye Tap Digital Glass (development: 1980 onward)

Steve Mann's inventions

“Chirplet transform, 1991: Mann was the first to propose and reduce to practice a signal representation based on a family of chirp signals, each associated with a coefficient, in a generalization of the wavelet transform that is now referred to as the chirplet transform.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“Video Orbits, 1993: Mann was the first to produce an algorithm for automatically combining multiple pictures of the same subject matter, using algebraic projective geometry, to "stitch together" images using automatically estimated perspective

• correction. This is called the "Video Orbits" algorithm.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“Comparametric Equations, 1993: Mann was the first to propose and implement an algorithm to estimate a camera's response function from a plurality of differently exposed images of the same subject matter.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“HDR (High Dynamic Range): "The first report of digitally combining multiple pictures of the same scene to improve dynamic range appears to be Mann." in "Estimation-theoretic approach to dynamic range enhancement using multiple exposures" by Robertson etal, JEI 12(2), p220, right column, line 26” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“Hydraulophone: Mann invented an experimental musical instrument that uses pressurized hydraulic fluid, such as water, to make sound. The instrument is played by placing the fingers in direct contact with the sound-producing hydraulic fluid, thus giving the musician a high degree of control over the musical expression in the sound.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“Natural User Interface: In the 1970s, '80s and '90s, Mann developed a number of user-interface strategies using natural interaction with the real world as an alternative to a command- line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI). Mann referred to this work as "Natural User Interfaces", "Direct User Interfaces", and "Metaphor-Free Computing"” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“Scratch input, an acoustic-based method of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that takes advantage of the characteristic sound produced when a finger nail, stick, or other object strikes or is dragged over a surface, such as a table or wall.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“Telepointer, a wearable computer based on a pendant that contains a webcam and laser-based infinite depth-of-focus projector.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Steve Mann's inventions

“Sousveillance: inverse surveillance.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann

Wafaa Bilal 3rdi (2011) “A camera temporarily implanted on the back of my head, it spontaneously and objectively captures the images – one per minute – that make up my daily life, and transmits them to a website for public consumption.”

Yayoi Kusama Endless Love Show (1966)

James Turrell Wedgework IV (1974)

James Turrell Wedgework IV (1974)

James Turrell Tall Glass (2009)

Julian Oliver Level Head (2007)

http://julianoliver.com/levelhead/

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A set of videos that document artwork related to surveillance

• r reveal archetypal themes of immersion.

https://vimeo.com/album/2119431

panoptICONS Utrecht 2010

from FRONT404 2 years ago

‘panoptICONS’ addresses the fact that you are constantly being watched by surveillance cameras in city centres. The surveillance camera seems to have become a real pest that feeds on our

• privacy. To represent this, camera birds - city birds with cameras

instead of heads - were placed throughout the city center of Utrecht where they feed on our presence. In addition, a camera bird in captivity was displayed to show the feeding process and to make the everyday breach of our privacy more personal and tangible. panoptICONS is a project by Thomas voor 't Hekke and Bas van Oerle who work together by the name of FRONT404. For more info visit: panopticons.nl front404.com

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Electronic Countermeasures @ GLOW Festival NL 2011 Today we are much closer to our virtual community than we are to our real neighbours. Revolutionary communities are coalescing around social networks and text messages and occupy the city with the force to topple governments. We have built a flock of GPS enabled quadcopter drones from components that were

• riginally intended for aerial reconnaissance and police surveillance to create this

flying pirate file sharing network. tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com twitter: @liam_young

Surveillance Chess

from !Mediengruppe Bitnik 2 months ago

Surveillance Chess (2012) Hijacking CCTV Cameras in London __________________________________________________________ _ Equipped with an interfering transmitter !Mediengruppe Bitnik hacks surveillance cameras in pre-Olympic London and assumes control. The artist collective replaces real-time surveillance images with an invitation to play a game of chess. The security staff's surveillance monitor located in the control room becomes a game console. About Surveillance Chess: chess.bitnik.org/about.html !Mediengruppe Bitnik bitnik.org

Föhnseher (Seer of Warm Winds)

from Julian Oliver 1 year ago

(Demonstration by Servando Barreiro) Föhnseher rises from the scrap heap of analog TV. Unlike other televisions, Föhnseher captures and displays images downloaded by people on surrounding local wireless networks. Phones, laptops and tablet computers all become broadcast stations for this device, replacing the forgotten television towers of old. julianoliver.com/foehnseher

Double-Taker (Snout), Interactive Robot

from Golan Levin 3 years ago

"Double-Taker (Snout)" (interactive installation, 2008) deals in a whimsical manner with the themes

• f trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance.

The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant's trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm, Double-Taker (Snout) orients a supersized googly-eye towards passers-by, tracking their bodies and suggesting an intelligent awareness of their

• activities. The goal of this kinetic system is to perform convincing "double-takes" at its visitors, in

which the sculpture appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers — communicating, without words, that there is something uniquely surprising about each of us.

For a Minute There I Lost Myself

from Andrew Reid PLUS 2 years ago

Shot with the Panasonic GH1, this is a video about Hong Kong, the disorientating sensory overload it gives you and the dehumanising affect of extreme capitalism. Hong Kong is the centre of global trade - capitalism pushing the limits, monstrous financial establishments have their base here and then there's also the full force of China behind it. You can feel the over-population combined with weirdly photogenic cityscapes. It's a strange city post-British empire and I wanted to capture all of this, with a sense of dread and dystopia.

Augmented City 3D

from Keiichi Matsuda 2 years ago /

Creative Commons License: by nc nd

by Keiichi Matsuda keiichimatsuda.com The architecture of the contemporary city is no longer simply about the physical space of buildings and landscape, more and more it is about the synthetic spaces created by the digital information that we collect, consume and organise; an immersive interface may become as much part of the world we inhabit as the buildings around us. Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology defined by its ability to overlay physical space with

• information. It is part of a paradigm shift that succeeds Virtual Reality; instead of disembodied occupation
• f virtual worlds, the physical and virtual are seen together as a contiguous, layered and dynamic whole.

It may lead to a world where media is indistinguishable from 'reality'. The spatial organisation of data has important implications for architecture, as we re-evaluate the city as an immersive human-computer interface.

Bad Trip: Navigate My Mind

from KwanAlan PLUS 1 month ago

Bad Trip is an immersive interactive system that enables people to navigate my mind using a game controller. Since November 2011, every moments of my life has been logged by a video camera that mounts on my eyeglasses, producing an expanding database of digitalized visual

• memories. Using a custom virtual reality software, I design a virtual mindscape where

people could navigate and experience my memories and dreams. The mindscape grows continually as fresh memories and dreams come in. Creator, Visual Design, Architect, Programming, Sound Design: Alan Kwan Music: Vertigo by Robert Rich Software: Quest 3D, 3ds Max, Esri CityEngine

INJECT EXTRACT 02

from Herman Kolgen PLUS 3 years ago

PREVIEW FROM HERMAN KOLGEN PERFORMANCE _ INJECT _ WWW.KOLGEN.NET 2010 Ars Electronica honored mention for this project A human body is injected in a cistern. Over the course of 45 minutes, the pressure of the liquid exerts upon him multiple neurosensorial transformations. From his epidermal fiber to his nervous system, he reacts to influxes of viscosity in this liquid chamber. His cortex, lac king oxygen, gradually loses all notions of the real. Like a human guinea pig: a matter-body whose psychologica l states are the object of kinetik tableaux, of singular temporal spaces. It was in 2008 that Herman Kolgen initiated the IN/JECT project .

"We Live in Public" Trailer

from Futuristic Films PLUS 2 years ago

Ten years in the making and culled from 5000 hours of footage, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC reveals the effect the web is having on our society, as seen through the eyes of “the greatest Internet pioneer you’ve never heard of”, artist, futurist and visionary Josh Harris. Award-winning director Ondi Timoner (DIG! -- which also won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2004 -- making Timoner the only director to win that prestigious award twice) documented his tumultuous life for more than a decade to create a riveting, cautionary tale of what to expect as the virtual world inevitably takes control of our lives. Harris, often called the “Warhol of the Web”, founded Pseudo.com, the first Internet television network during the infamous dot-com boom of the 1990s. He also curated and funded the ground breaking project “Quiet” in an underground bunker in NYC where over 100 people lived together on camera for 30 days at the turn of the millennium. With Quiet, Harris proved how we willingly trade our privacy for the connection and recognition we all deeply desire, but with every technological advancement such as MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, becomes more elusive. Through his experiments, including a six-month stint living with his girlfriend under 24-hour electronic surveillance which led to his mental collapse, Harris demonstrated the price we pay for living in public.

https://vimeo.com/7461022 JOSH HARRIS

Face Substitution

from Kyle McDonald PLUS 1 year ago /

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Working on an idea with Arturo Castro vimeo.com/29279198 I feel like "good" blending looks almost too natural to be surprising. It doesn't leave any interpolation up to your imagination. It's possible to push this style further, so it's less of a blend and more of a replacement, but then you get unnatural colors and shadows. FaceTracker library from Jason Saragih web.mac.com/jsaragih/FaceTracker/FaceTracker.html

• fxFaceTracker addon github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker
• penFrameworks openframeworks.cc/

Download the app here github.com/arturoc/FaceSubstitution

People Staring at Computers

from Kyle McDonald PLUS 1 year ago

peoplestaringatcomputers.tumblr.com/ kylemcdonald.net/

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/people-staring-at-computers/all/

Interview: Ondi Timoner - We live in Public

from Around the Docs Productions 1 year ago /

Creative Commons License: by nc nd

Interview with Ondi Timoner director of the documentary 'We live in public'.

https://vimeo.com/22301760