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Project Outline
So I am scrapping the old idea and am working on a new one.
So far here is a new project work plan.
Monday, January 29, 2007
assignment 1
Lindsay Kesler
I want to explore the parallels between a window in website space in relation to a window in a real space such as a home; both have public and private elements.
I am interested in how people represent themselves on the internet through sites such as myspace, in much the same way as they decorate a personal space such as a home. The most evident in passing by a home is what can be seen through the window. How a homeowner decorates their window projects their identity out in to the street for others to see their beliefs, preferences etc. The internet is used in much the same way as the site designer chooses what images, thoughts will be seen as an outward representation of themselves. Through using internet "explorer" or "navigator" we tour around this imaginary cyber space. In much the same way the language used to describe how the internet is used can be linked to voyeurism and tourism through its ability to show 'windows' into other peoples lives.
I want to create an interactive site which will contain voyeuristic portraits of windows and other ways to view other peoples lives. Each window photographed will show the beliefs chosen to be outwardly displayed by their owners and will act as a kind of gallery of photos and possibly sounds meant to give a glimpse into the lives of the various residents.
The site will be for artists and/or internet users in general from home/school as a kind of sound art/photography/interactive site.
Week by week
Jan 29-feb 26
I plan on walking around the city photographing and gathering sounds from interesting houses and areas of the city. I'm sure mor ideas will come out of this process of walking and gathering images which may be incorporated into the final webpage concept.
Feb 14-March 05
Upload/organize photos/sounds on computer set up basic design using Photoshop. Make alpha channels.
March 12-April ?
put all photos and images on flash and work on interactive components.
apparently html doesnt work on this so heres a link to a very rough Paint sketch of one of my ideas for the main page layout so far.
I want to explore the parallels between a window in website space in relation to a window in a real space such as a home; both have public and private elements.
I am interested in how people represent themselves on the internet through sites such as myspace, in much the same way as they decorate a personal space such as a home. The most evident in passing by a home is what can be seen through the window. How a homeowner decorates their window projects their identity out in to the street for others to see their beliefs, preferences etc. The internet is used in much the same way as the site designer chooses what images, thoughts will be seen as an outward representation of themselves. Through using internet "explorer" or "navigator" we tour around this imaginary cyber space. In much the same way the language used to describe how the internet is used can be linked to voyeurism and tourism through its ability to show 'windows' into other peoples lives.
I want to create an interactive site which will contain voyeuristic portraits of windows and other ways to view other peoples lives. Each window photographed will show the beliefs chosen to be outwardly displayed by their owners and will act as a kind of gallery of photos and possibly sounds meant to give a glimpse into the lives of the various residents.
The site will be for artists and/or internet users in general from home/school as a kind of sound art/photography/interactive site.
Week by week
Jan 29-feb 26
I plan on walking around the city photographing and gathering sounds from interesting houses and areas of the city. I'm sure mor ideas will come out of this process of walking and gathering images which may be incorporated into the final webpage concept.
Feb 14-March 05
Upload/organize photos/sounds on computer set up basic design using Photoshop. Make alpha channels.
March 12-April ?
put all photos and images on flash and work on interactive components.
apparently html doesnt work on this so heres a link to a very rough Paint sketch of one of my ideas for the main page layout so far.
Antonella's Assignment 1 – Proposal
It has always been an interest of mine to form a connection between architectural structures and the humanistic characters they appear to suggest within a city landscape. What may seem like a familiar building holds unique characteristics that often go unnoticed but are worthy of acknowledgment. This is a challenge for any artist!
To understand and recognize the beauty and structure of a city landscape, one must carefully analyze it by separating it into parts and consider how each form is just as important as any other, such as the windows and doors. My intent for this project is to allow the user to explore the many unique facets of such buildings through means of web exploration and interactivity, while every process (clicks) creates and changes these structures of familiarity into something new and engaging.
I will be working with various media to create this project. I will use my collection of digital images I have recently taken of random city shop fronts that have interesting geometric shapes and patterns. I will create an inventive street by arranging and meshing the shop front images together in a consecutive manner, like a panoramic image. I will then experiment with different software programs to recreate and manipulate the structures for different effects: Photoshop to change the appearance such as colours transformations, saturation, and contrasts; After Effects or Flash to animate forms and colours; HTML, CSS, or Flash to build the site so to allow the user to interact with the environment online. Also possibly add sound to help immerse the visitor into the environment. The manipulations will vary depending on what I will learn throughout the semester through program tutorials and how I can make use of it for this project.
This virtual image will become like an artwork in some way, allowing the artist, in this case the user, to choose and recreate (invent) something new and engaging that speaks to them.
The street will become an interactive environment for anyone to explore and discover it’s various characteristics. Thus my target viewer will be for anyone, at any time or place, especially those who are interested in web art.
Week 1: Collect all the images needed, and merge them together effectively into a panoramic image. Prepare site to place (not yet interactive) image on page.
Week 2: Devising what I want to manipulate by separating each structures forms into parts. List ideas of transformations for each form.
Week 3: Through programming, manipulate the images through colour transformations, saturation, contrasts, etc. (while saving each change into parts and adding to site)
Week 4: Through programming, manipulate the images through animations and other intricate effects. (while saving each change into parts and adding to site)
Week 5: Overview of site to see that parts are working effectively. Continue adding manipulations so users can interact with the environment.
(Week-by-week plan may fluctuate)
Communification.org
Currently I own the domain names for my long-term-project-in-the-making COMMUNIFICATION CO-OP:
communification.com will be the commerical component of COMMUNIFICATION, selling goods (VERY goods!), like merchandise and art to raise money that enables the larger activities of the organization (possibility of eventually facilitating "fair trade" worker co-ops in developing countries to manufacture garments, art objects, etc.)
communification.org will be an online information hub for an open-audience that networks to existing websites and has no commercial content, only community-related things, mostly focused on festival-related promotions and creative collaborations.
To start with, I want to sort of create an information hub for "community arts festivals". As far as this class project goes, it will just be an informative, interactive site, showing only North American events, so I can just stick with English for now. Later, I'd like to includeEurope , and eventually global events perhaps, which would probably lead me to segment the site off by language and geographic location (which is complicated, so forget that).
I want to create a network, that isn't inherently logical or intended, but a connection that I see between a lot of the grassroots festivals that spring up from independent organizers, with an eclectic range of activities and entertainment mediums including music performances, but not exclusively... as opposed to those that are heavily sponsored and have line-ups of bands picked from a certain genre of pop-music. There's definitely lots of fesitvals that ride the line though.
Examples of festivals: , Symbiosis (Northern California), Burning Man Fesitval (Nevada), World Electronic Music Festival (travelling), Harvest Festival (GTA), Evolve Festival (Nova Scotia), Northtek (Northern Ontario), Earthdance International (multi-location), Eclipse Summer Trance Festival (Central Ontario), Hillside Festival (Southern Ontario), Shambhala (Northern BC), etc.
Obviously I mainly know of the ones in our general area, but there's many more. Actually, it has taken three years to actually discover these ones, which is why I think there is a need for this type of thing. I'm personally interested to find out what all is out there.
A common scheme of some of these festivals is the "you build it", "mandatory participation" approach, so that instead of centralized unit of people being responsible for producing the entirety of the event materials, there is an open field for people to contribute in their own way, and for the festival to grow proportional to the efforts of the people that want it to.
THE FLASH SITE (www.communifcation.org) :
An interactive map ofNorth America that highlights festivals by location.
I'm thinking of starting with a stylized 3-D earth animation (monochrome, wireframe, with land masses), with COMMUNIFICATION orbiting it, and some visual effects (5 seconds)... then it zooms intoNorth America which will be a base layout for the site in general. For each event, there is a marker, that users can scroll over to reveal basic information, festival location, date, brief description. There will be links to the festivals that will open up in new windows.
A sidebar will list other areas of the website (that I will develop after the map) perhaps including - "how to's" like "how to build a dome", links to useful gear and products valuable festival-goers, information resources for festival organizers, links to collectives and organizations involved in festival activities, and a forum for creative collaborations (the second major component of the site, that might be a DRUPAL-developed site on its own.)
Problem: some festivals have not yet announced their locations, and still others deliberately intend not to release their specific location until the week leading up to the event (presumably to avoid nearby residents from filing complaints and possibly jeopardizing the festival.)
WEEK-BY-WEEK
week 4:
-research
week5:
-Flash tutorials
week 6:
- produce layout and place-holder graphics (draft quality) with basic animations
- research events in North America
week 7:
week 8:
background:
This website will give me some interface and familiarity with existing festivals, and will serve their needs as much as my own. I personally hope to become involved in sculpturally designing "sound villages" at these festivals, and have shifted the focus of my artwork to cater to this application. Sculptural decor, lighting, projections, promo materials, performance art, that kind of stuff. I also would like to acquire some power-generators (solar most likely) and bring those along to festivals, as they are almost all off-grid and require portable power (pending involvement from festival organizers). As the scope of the endeavour becomes larger more people can be involved, and we can make appearances at more festivals. A eco-fuelled bus for touring around in would be necessary at some point.
The interesting thing about these festivals is that, for a short time, they exist as self-sufficient, ecological, mini communities shaped by willing participants and often exemplify ideals that are difficult to cultivate in existing habitations. They have a strong sense of unity and positivity, as they are intentional gatherings... temporary get-aways with a focus on partying, fun and learning. Yet, in their own small way, I think they are models for what adaptive, responsive and aware people are capable of when they co-operatively build a community.
communification.com will be the commerical component of COMMUNIFICATION, selling goods (VERY goods!), like merchandise and art to raise money that enables the larger activities of the organization (possibility of eventually facilitating "fair trade" worker co-ops in developing countries to manufacture garments, art objects, etc.)
communification.org will be an online information hub for an open-audience that networks to existing websites and has no commercial content, only community-related things, mostly focused on festival-related promotions and creative collaborations.
To start with, I want to sort of create an information hub for "community arts festivals". As far as this class project goes, it will just be an informative, interactive site, showing only North American events, so I can just stick with English for now. Later, I'd like to include
I want to create a network, that isn't inherently logical or intended, but a connection that I see between a lot of the grassroots festivals that spring up from independent organizers, with an eclectic range of activities and entertainment mediums including music performances, but not exclusively... as opposed to those that are heavily sponsored and have line-ups of bands picked from a certain genre of pop-music. There's definitely lots of fesitvals that ride the line though.
Examples of festivals: , Symbiosis (Northern California), Burning Man Fesitval (Nevada), World Electronic Music Festival (travelling), Harvest Festival (GTA), Evolve Festival (Nova Scotia), Northtek (Northern Ontario), Earthdance International (multi-location), Eclipse Summer Trance Festival (Central Ontario), Hillside Festival (Southern Ontario), Shambhala (Northern BC), etc.
Obviously I mainly know of the ones in our general area, but there's many more. Actually, it has taken three years to actually discover these ones, which is why I think there is a need for this type of thing. I'm personally interested to find out what all is out there.
A common scheme of some of these festivals is the "you build it", "mandatory participation" approach, so that instead of centralized unit of people being responsible for producing the entirety of the event materials, there is an open field for people to contribute in their own way, and for the festival to grow proportional to the efforts of the people that want it to.
THE FLASH SITE (www.communifcation.org) :
An interactive map of
I'm thinking of starting with a stylized 3-D earth animation (monochrome, wireframe, with land masses), with COMMUNIFICATION orbiting it, and some visual effects (5 seconds)... then it zooms into
A sidebar will list other areas of the website (that I will develop after the map) perhaps including - "how to's" like "how to build a dome", links to useful gear and products valuable festival-goers, information resources for festival organizers, links to collectives and organizations involved in festival activities, and a forum for creative collaborations (the second major component of the site, that might be a DRUPAL-developed site on its own.)
Problem: some festivals have not yet announced their locations, and still others deliberately intend not to release their specific location until the week leading up to the event (presumably to avoid nearby residents from filing complaints and possibly jeopardizing the festival.)
WEEK-BY-WEEK
week 4:
-research
week5:
-Flash tutorials
week 6:
- produce layout and place-holder graphics (draft quality) with basic animations
- research events in North America
week 7:
week 8:
background:
This website will give me some interface and familiarity with existing festivals, and will serve their needs as much as my own. I personally hope to become involved in sculpturally designing "sound villages" at these festivals, and have shifted the focus of my artwork to cater to this application. Sculptural decor, lighting, projections, promo materials, performance art, that kind of stuff. I also would like to acquire some power-generators (solar most likely) and bring those along to festivals, as they are almost all off-grid and require portable power (pending involvement from festival organizers). As the scope of the endeavour becomes larger more people can be involved, and we can make appearances at more festivals. A eco-fuelled bus for touring around in would be necessary at some point.
The interesting thing about these festivals is that, for a short time, they exist as self-sufficient, ecological, mini communities shaped by willing participants and often exemplify ideals that are difficult to cultivate in existing habitations. They have a strong sense of unity and positivity, as they are intentional gatherings... temporary get-aways with a focus on partying, fun and learning. Yet, in their own small way, I think they are models for what adaptive, responsive and aware people are capable of when they co-operatively build a community.
Augmented Experiences
One of the ways to augment an experience is simply to change its context. How can the use of spaces and technologies like Cellspace, Bluetooth, and physical sensors be used to create salient experiences of the 'everyday' or be used to construct new experiential environments? What are is a person willing to do/visit if they have sufficient support?
Research through links, paper sources, and interviews will be used to construct an awareness interesting places people visit within the city and in their imagination. Then, using podcasts, bloothtooth (with GPS?), or simple written instructions, I would like to guide people into these spaces. My hope is that this work will be accessed through handheld devices as its main component ideas are mobility and maneuverability.
Documentary Media:
-A webpage will host the media (Flash)
-Photography and video of sites used in tours
-Interviews, video streaming--imagined and visited spaces
WEEK 5: Interviews: imagined and visited spaces; imagined experiences
Research: my own interesting spaces
WEEK 6: Interviews: imagined and visited spaces; imagined experiences
Photograph: document spaces of interest
WEEK 7: Present: interviews and photographs with ideas of usage
WEEK 8: Create: walking tours of spaces
Construct: begin to fabricate salient environments
WEEK 9: Record: instructions to walking tours of spaces in city
Construct: fabricate salient environments
WEEK 10: Create: webpage to host photos, video, podcasts, and other research materials
Construct: complete environments; document
WEEK 11: Create: webpage; continue recording results of tours
WEEK 12: Create: webpage; continue recording results of tours
WEEK 13: Present
Ben Prus
Research through links, paper sources, and interviews will be used to construct an awareness interesting places people visit within the city and in their imagination. Then, using podcasts, bloothtooth (with GPS?), or simple written instructions, I would like to guide people into these spaces. My hope is that this work will be accessed through handheld devices as its main component ideas are mobility and maneuverability.
Documentary Media:
-A webpage will host the media (Flash)
-Photography and video of sites used in tours
-Interviews, video streaming--imagined and visited spaces
WEEK 5: Interviews: imagined and visited spaces; imagined experiences
Research: my own interesting spaces
WEEK 6: Interviews: imagined and visited spaces; imagined experiences
Photograph: document spaces of interest
WEEK 7: Present: interviews and photographs with ideas of usage
WEEK 8: Create: walking tours of spaces
Construct: begin to fabricate salient environments
WEEK 9: Record: instructions to walking tours of spaces in city
Construct: fabricate salient environments
WEEK 10: Create: webpage to host photos, video, podcasts, and other research materials
Construct: complete environments; document
WEEK 11: Create: webpage; continue recording results of tours
WEEK 12: Create: webpage; continue recording results of tours
WEEK 13: Present
Ben Prus
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Jamin's Ass-1 Outline
I plan on experimenting with Flash animations for my final project. A lot of my classes this semester involve working with Flash, so maybe I can build a web site as a collection of animations/work. Users would be able to navigate through the site and interact with various animations that will guide users along the way. This work will include writing, images, music/sounds, movie clips, flash animations, etc.
The target audience will be anyone with internet access and a browser capable of playing flash animations. Why? Why not? There is no specific use for this work. It will be art that exists for whoever wants to acknowledge its existence. The specific content for this work (like aesthetic details) hasn't quite come to me yet. I'm thinking it will end up being some kind of 'interactive surrealist cartoon'...??? Something like that. Most of the images and sounds will come to me throughout the creative process. I had an idea for an animation of a hand on a table playing that 'knife between the fingers' game. All the animations would just be crazy random stuff like that...maybe some flowers too, who knows? (The project will find a clearer focus as I work on it.)
Perhaps I will find something I want to say, but for now I'm going to just experiment with animation and see what kind of messages come out of the evolution of the work. Letting the work evolve on its own doesn't leave me much of a 'week-by-week' workplan...All I know is that I'll be working in flash creating some kind of surreal/poetic series of animations, but I have
yet to establish exactly what kind of special message they will express. Again, all this is discovered through actually creating the work (...from the subconscious?). This also leaves me with no real preconceived diagram of the web site either...I guess it will turn out looking like a chain of events in animations (i.e. the user clicks a button, the animation takes them further, presenting more buttons and new animations to explore, they click more buttons, more animations, etc).
Any feedback or technical instruction I will need will most likely be concerning certain elements of action scripting I'm having trouble with in Flash.
Peace out, and NEVER question Chuck Norris.
The target audience will be anyone with internet access and a browser capable of playing flash animations. Why? Why not? There is no specific use for this work. It will be art that exists for whoever wants to acknowledge its existence. The specific content for this work (like aesthetic details) hasn't quite come to me yet. I'm thinking it will end up being some kind of 'interactive surrealist cartoon'...??? Something like that. Most of the images and sounds will come to me throughout the creative process. I had an idea for an animation of a hand on a table playing that 'knife between the fingers' game. All the animations would just be crazy random stuff like that...maybe some flowers too, who knows? (The project will find a clearer focus as I work on it.)
Perhaps I will find something I want to say, but for now I'm going to just experiment with animation and see what kind of messages come out of the evolution of the work. Letting the work evolve on its own doesn't leave me much of a 'week-by-week' workplan...All I know is that I'll be working in flash creating some kind of surreal/poetic series of animations, but I have
yet to establish exactly what kind of special message they will express. Again, all this is discovered through actually creating the work (...from the subconscious?). This also leaves me with no real preconceived diagram of the web site either...I guess it will turn out looking like a chain of events in animations (i.e. the user clicks a button, the animation takes them further, presenting more buttons and new animations to explore, they click more buttons, more animations, etc).
Any feedback or technical instruction I will need will most likely be concerning certain elements of action scripting I'm having trouble with in Flash.
Peace out, and NEVER question Chuck Norris.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
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