Random Magazine - New Media Art / E-Culture » love http://www.random-magazine.net Random links about Art & Technology Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:28:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Kiss Controller http://www.random-magazine.net/2011/02/kiss-controller/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2011/02/kiss-controller/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:28:44 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=3721

Recently, with the improvement of camera capabilities and related tracking systems, game input systems such as Nintendo Wii controllers or Microsoft Kinect games are incorporating more body positions and movements. Kiss Controller is an experimental project that allows users to control a bowling game by moving their tongues while kissing. Unlike existing game input devices, Kiss Controller seeks to generate the emotional experience of a kinetic act while users play the game rather than control games with their body.

http://vimeo.com/20119651

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Digital: A Love Story is a game by Christina Love set entirely within an Amiga Workbench desktop. “A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988. Crawl BBSes, uncover conspiracies, commit telephone fraud, fall in love. Welcome to the 20th century.”

http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/

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My Lover the Server is an exhibition by the digital art duo Champagne Valentine (Anita Fontaine & Geoff Lillemon). The show explores the phenomenon of Internet romance which has exploded online in the last 5 years. Drawing on real digital communications with web stalkers, strangers and actual lovers and re-interpreting them for the Concrete gallery space (Amsterdam), the exhibition will feature a series of 4-6 digital flat-screens inside CNC-milled custom frames. Against a backdrop of dedicated wallpaper designed by the artists, the frames will feature looping animations and text-based works running continuously off memory cards, as well as 1-2 pieces that will be connected online to the outside world, inviting the public to remotely interact with the artwork. My Lover the Server transforms the artist’s canvas into a new form of cultural expression and offers an increasingly powerful interaction between viewer and artist.

http://www.champagnevalentine.com
http://www.concrete.nl
http://mylovertheserver.com/

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Inevitably, issues regarding privacy, exhibitionism, and voyeurism playfully emerge as the blogosphere is infused with biofeedback and location technology. Rather than play into a dystopian or Orwellian future, blogs and biofeedback are given poetic license, reframing our awareness of our own and each others’ beating hearts.

My Beating Blog is a 2005 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. for its Turbulence web site. It is supported by the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial and in recognition of the valuable contributions of artists to society.

http://turbulence.org/works/beatingheart/blog

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With each launch, OneSmallStep runs continuously while randomly remixing content form a database that is periodically updated. OneSmallStep is a conceptually interactive work, and also, a non-clickable work.

Important Technical Notes:
Browser preferences must be set to accept pop-up windows.
Browser must have Flash player (7 or later) installed.
System speaker Volume up.
Hi-speed connection prefered.

OneSmallStep: a Myspace LuvStory is a project developed for Concept Trucking, an exhibiton venue maintained by LeisureArts that uses MySpace as its platform. It hosts work that critiques, mimics, or otherwise utilizes the structural logic of social networking sites and other Web 2.0 phenomena.

Last database update:
June 2, 2006 v.1-172 – the Eternal Download Mix

OneSmallStep: a MySpace LuvStory
www.flawedart.net/files/nospacelikemyspace

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Using a data collection engine created by the artists for their recent collaboration, We Feel Fine (www.wefeelfine.org), Lovelines examines thousands of blogs every few minutes to find expressions of love and hate, posted by all manner of people. When it can, Lovelines identifies and saves the age, gender, and geographical location of the person who wrote the post, and then presents that information along with the post. The entries range from frivolous to profound, offering a glimpse into the hearts and minds of people blogging about their wants and needs.

www.love-lines.com

Share/Save]]> http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/05/lovelines/feed/ 0 The Dumpster http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/04/the-dumpster/ http://www.random-magazine.net/2006/04/the-dumpster/#comments Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:00:30 +0000 vtanni http://www.random-magazine.net/?p=1305 The Dumpster was created by Golan Levin, Kamal Nigam and Jonathan Feinberg and made possible by support from the Whitney Artport, the Tate Online, and Intelliseek. Version 1.0 of the Dumpster was built in Processing and launched on Valentine’s day, 2006: an interactive online visualization that attempts to depict a slice through the romantic lives of American teenagers.
Using real postings extracted from millions of online blogs, visitors to the project can surf through tens of thousands of specific romantic relationships in which one person has “dumped” another. The project’s graphical tools reveal the astonishing similarities, unique differences, and underlying patterns of these failed relationships, providing both peculiarly analytic and sympathetically intimate perspectives onto the diversity of global romantic pain.
The Dumpster visualizes a fixed collection of 20,000 romantic breakups that occurred during 2005. These breakups were obtained from web logs (”blogs”) posted by people on the Internet. At least half of the authors of these breakups were American teenagers between the ages of 13 and 19.

http://www.tate.org.uk/netart/bvs/thedumpster.htm

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The updated version of locker baby proposes a fictional scenario set in year 2030: the DollyPolly Transagency clones locker babies with genes extracted from deep sea pearls harvested off Okinawa Island. The biobot locker babies are the clones of our scifi fantasia reality , entrusted to receive, store, transmit and negotiate human memory and emotion.
Baby love situates human and his baby clones in a perpetual spin of fairground teacup ride. It is a wireless, networked installation that consist of six, large size (160 diameter) teacups and six clone babies (70 cm tall). Each baby is a sound processing machine with built in mini-pc and speakers. Through web interface or site USB memory stick connector, the public upload love songs (mp3 files) to the centralized and distributed servers. Upon receiving the mp3 uploaded data, the baby learns the long songs by looping random segments of any given song. The spinning teacup is designed in two modes: auto and manual. The public is able to stop the spinning teacup and get on the seating inside it. The spinning wheel scratches the sound files inside baby machine, so the baby love songs are remixed, reshuffled with human interaction. The teacupÌs bottom plate is inflated with a layer of silicon bumper where a set of touch sensor is attached. Upon the crash when two teacups bump into each other, the bumper sensor data is sent via wi-fi and triggers data swap of the love songs amid processing. The altered love songs with its segments swapped are transmitted live on the web with date and time of the crash recorded.

www.palaisdetokyo.com
http://richair.waag.org/babylove

[ITALIAN BELOW]

Fino all’8 gennaio, presso il Palais de Tokyo di Parigi è possibile interagire con Baby love dell’artista Shu Lea Cheang. Si tratta della seconda fase di un progetto più ampio, The Locker Baby project, iniziato con l’installazione Baby play realizzata presso l’NTT (ICC-InterCommunication center) di Tokyo nel 2001 e che prevede una fase successiva intitolata Baby work.
L’intero progetto prende spunto dalle atmosfere presenti nel racconto Coin locker babies di Ryu Murakami per creare uno scenario ambientato in un 2030, in cui una fantomatica agenzia transegenetica clona bambini utilizzando geni estratti dalle perle dell’isola di Okinawa. Questi biobot locker babies rappresentano una generazione di cloni capaci di ricevere, immagazzinare, scambiare memoria umana ed emozioni sotto forma di dati.
L’istallazione Baby love prevede una serie di enormi (diametro 1,6 m) tazze da tè colorate, simili a quelle delle giostre, nelle quali sono posti neonati in gomma siliconica alti 70 cm che contengono un mini-pc. Ogni neonato è collegato wireless con due server, uno locale nel quale i visitatori possono caricare le proprie canzoni d’amore preferite attraverso una chiave usb, e uno in rete per aggiungere mp3 dal web. L’insieme di questi dati costituisce la MEmoria(memory/emotion) del neonato.
I brani, prima di essere riproposti al pubblico presente nel museo grazie agli altoparlanti camuffati da bottoni del pannolino, sono modificati dal mini-pc contenuto in ogni neonato secondo variabili fornite dal movimento di ogni tazza, che pu⁄ sia ruotare su se stessa che muoversi nello spazio, sia in automatico che guidata dai visitatori. Il volante che regola la rotazione della tazza funziona, insomma, come il piatto di un dj con il quale ognuno può “scratchare” i vari mp3. Inoltre eventuali scontri tra le tazze provocano uno scambio di dati che vengono mixati e riproposti sul web come una nuova traccia identificata dall’ora esatta dellÌincidente.

(lucia mariani)

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Sex & Food tocca ed evoca uno dei grandi temi della vita psicologica delle generazioni nuove. Le attuali sintesi psico-antropologiche di maggiore impegno tendono a leggere la vita contemporanea attraverso le quattro pulsioni primarie del bios umano: fame, sessualità, paura, aggressività. Queste quattro polarità vitali ed istintuali dell’esistere mentale e corporeo (che ordinariamente hanno bisogno di organizzarsi in un armonico universo di interazioni), viceversa, oggi hanno raggiunto il loro stato critico di precipitazione verso reciprocazioni perverse e tanatologiche. La fame cerca di “mangiare la sessualità, sostituendosi ad essa. L’aggressività mira a “demonizzare” la paura, facendone le veci. La sessualitá tende a “concepire” la fame per soppiantarla divorandola, come per un cannibalismo interpsichico. L’Eros diventa una via sull’antropologia. Gli incontri sessuali diventano stages multifattoriali di antropologia insostenibile (da Il cifrario della catastrofe amorosa, di Lorenzo Ostuni).
Il video “impossible.love” sarà presentato, in contemporanea, presso la galleria SKC di Belgrado.

http://www.lucacurci.com/art/common/video/impossible_love/index.html

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Come funziona? Wirelesslove è un sito wap, ossia un sito che può essere visto utilizzando il telefono cellulare. Collegandosi al sito, e inserendo una serie di parametri per la personalizzazione della poesia (luogo, stagione, caratteristiche fisiche della persona amata), è possibile ricevere sul display del telefonino un componimento ad hoc, da declamare con lo sguardo trasognato.

http://www.wirelesslove.net (offline)

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