Thursday, May 3, 2012

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] about your balloon-photo project

Ramon ,
Precisely the point I'm addressing re my windinch/windscube.
http://rhizome.org/profiles/leifbrush2/
http://www.d.umn.edu/~lbrush/lbarchivesd1.html#anchor213267
btw my Belgium WINDRIBBON stream thru -Feb 13th
http://icecast01.v2.nl:8000/windribbon.m3u

and thanks, roc

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Roc Parés i Burguès <roc.pares@upf.edu> wrote:
> Thank you for your interest, Anastasia,
>
> In my first approach to the erratic viewpoint project I used a "baby cam"
> (for which I made a battery pack). The performance took place in Barcelona
> on November 14th, 2004.
> http://deriva.tv/helium_bcn.2004.ogg
>
> This "out of my control" idea evolved in parallel to other experiments in
> which I used IP cameras attached to R/C model
> cars<http://www.mediatecaonline.net/mediatecaonline/jsp/actividades/act_showImage.jsp?ID_IDIOMA=es&catno=AC00275&descr=Panor%E1mica%20rob%F3tica:%20ciencia%20y%20arte%20de%20aqu%ED%20/%201&asset=AC00275_004_ICM_001.jpg&titulo=4>.
> For instance: Kids playing with the remote control toy car were in fact
> streaming audio and video live to the TV set in the bar of a small village
> (Maçanet de Cabrenys, 2005).
>
> In Mexico, in 2006, I made the balloon performance with an IP camera.
> Unfortunately, some technical problems turned my performance into a failure
> with about 300 people in the audience!
>
> And my first smartphone erratic live audio/video streaming and GPS tracking
> took place in Barcelona (February 2010), as a poetic protest against the IT
> consumerism OFF the Mobile World Congress.  http://deriva.tv/btv/
>
>
> Other people that I know who have been working on similar projects are:
>
>
>   - Gustavo Romano  http://gustavoromano.org/pgmx/e-index.htm (he made a
>   streaming camera balloon piece some months earlier than me April 29th, 2004.
>   - In 2005, Ira Mowen and Luca Antonucci had an idea to capture an aerial
>   view of their fair city of San Francisco. After, only a few days of
>   planning, they strapped a video camera to 30 red, helium-filled balloons
>   and let it go from the highest point in the city... more at
>   http://www.theballoonproject.org/
>
> And some other extraordinary art and science work involving helium balloons
> that I have learnt about recently thanks to Yasmin:
>
>   - Ramon Guardans (et al.) answer to the question Where was the air we
>   breath now yesterday and the day before… ?
>   http://www.intercreate.org/2011/04/where-was-the-wind/
>   - Leif Brush, And his Terrain Instruments which include a Helium filled
>   Balloon w/suspended spy camera hovering (the tree)...
>   http://weblackwhole.net/
>
>
> Finally, I'd like to add that this Deriva project of mine is part of my
> ongoing interactive communication studies (on the evolution of presence,
> agency and affordances) and related to a Theory of the Virtual
> Subjectiveness from which this paper (focused on VR) was a first attempt:
>
> Parés, N., Parés, R. "Towards a Model for a Virtual Reality Experience: the
> Virtual Subjectiveness." PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments.
> Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Vol 15.5., Pag. 524-538, 2006.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> r.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 2012/5/2 Anastasia Karandinou <a.karandinou@gmail.com>:
>> Hi Roc and Yasminers!
>>
>> I'm very much interested in your balloon-photo-taking idea and I was
>> wondering if you could give me some link (apart from this one you've given
>> here) to find out some more information.
>>
>> I'm working on some papers on the idea of the evolution of the 'objet
>> trouvé' into projects that generate mechanisms for randomly capturing
>> aspects of spaces, and I would like to refer to your project in one paper
> i
>> am working on at the moment if that was ok with you.
>>
>>
>> Many thanks and all the best with the fantastic projects!
>>
>> Anastasia
>>
>> --
>> Dr. Anastasia Karandinou
>> Lecturer in Architectural Design
>> University of Portsmouth
>> tel. +44 (0) 2392842902, +44 (0) 7804531763
>> Room 2.20, Portland Building, Portland Street,
>> School of Architecture
>> PO1 3AH, Portsmouth, UK
>> www.karandinou.com
>>
>>
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