joseph's melbourne new media arts - Mainly New media arts around melbourne, with the occasional other art form thrown in for variety

Uber

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Maybe I arrived between sets, but not much seemed to be Going on. Filming the projector flash was more interesting than the screen

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Posted 2 minutes ago

John barten, lean manufacturing or jit for software and education
Growing old disgracefully, rachelle, flaxworks gouge those oldies I mean apply tech to help oldies
Ben schwartz publish www using open standards
Ben. Flinklabs datavis advert; Lies and myschool

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Posted 9 days ago

Ignite

Arduino
Evanto (iterative business growth)
Carbonin trees (gov)
Focus (by emergency)
Opensource biotech robert shepard
Failure, toby
James farmer incsub twitter tweetspinner
Michele mathews 4hr work week

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Posted 9 days ago

OutPost

OutPost is a meeting of audio and video geeks where we all get to setup massive amounts of gear with cables dangling everywhere then try and share the limited output devices: one video projector and two speakers. Luckily we all play nicely.

DJ Squiggle (Joe Kaon) was the guest of honour at the first OutPost melbourne for 2010, and said he was attracted to outpost because of that very thing - the maturity to jam harmoniously. In his experience that only came from a group who wanted to do more than any one computer was capable of. Now computers are capable of so much more, it's the operator (and user interface) that is probably the limiting factor - also, growing up with laptops means the youth of today are more familiar with computing generally and specifically computing socially.

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Posted 14 days ago

Brunswick, Australia

Experimenta, utopia now

Face the future with a child on a stick
-leunig

In my case, face an exhibition of artists impressions of utopian future oddities with a my daughter.

At the entrance we were warned one exhibit might be innapropriate for kids (most of the rest are great fun). I did sneak into the forbiddenspace while daughter was distracted, and found it surprisingly underwhelming for a 3 screen surround 3D animation.

The plants with sounds were nice mild introduction to the interactivity, a little heavyhanded and disturbingly digital for an analog lifeform.

Daughter was a surprised how excited I was to see an antique typewritter spotlighted and, importantly, the seat vacant. I rushed over and she was confused to see the paper alive with critters. I tried to remember how to operate the antique. A friendly gallery assistant cleared the page us and gave the keyboard (though its not a board, more of an 'key collection of leavers') to daughter. She had a great time creating flocks ofcritters, watching them breed and compete for lone letters (groups of letters determine a critters genetic makeup, single letters are food)

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Barely glancing at the non-interctive work we squashed ourselves against a glass panel the size of a doorway - and left behind an impression of ourselves,sometimes smeard by movements then playfulness (hats, glasses and other peoples hands adding bizarrly to our portraits). We came back at the end for one last pose - I picked her up and held her upsidedown against the scanner, to approving nods from other audience members)

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Next I tried to interest her in the non-interactives: man hunting in supermarket; circular table with cylindrical mirror and overhead projection of images distorted to appear normal inthe mirror (sounds more interesting than it is). Ofcourse we went to the room of shadows with trash attached. As you loiter bits of rubbish slide down strings to attach themselves to your shadows. Its also possible to 'steal' other peoples trash, but be quick before you drown in a see of garbage.

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The 'box you stick your head in' was occupied so we went out tocheck the other entrance and found our selves in a container with a mysterious black box that was closing up on itself ..... so we started dancing, and slowly the box unfolds and music swells until we had our own rave party! Great fun, and fun to stand back and watch the next people work it out. no apologise for the shaky video - i was dancing & filming

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Finally we went back and stuck our heads in a box -whereupon our faces appeared on a character in an animated interactive story.

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Then I had to entertain myself while she played with everything again!

There was also a strangly lo-tech shadow show, didn't hold our attention longer than it took to diagnose it as lo-tech and non-interactive

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We skipped this one the first time around looking at things, because it had a sign saying it was experiencing technical difficulties (which I always love, but it just appears frozen) it didn't seem to work when my daughter sat in the hot seat either, but when i tried it we realised she was too short to trigger the facial recognition camera, so she stood instead: