On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 05:13:43PM -0800, Bret Victor wrote: > spatially-represented video > - unthinkable talk, turned into a dynamic poster thing > - seeing spaces talk, turned into a poster comic > - maybe some RMO+dave grids? Interlace etc? I think that the Grilbert may actually be the most promising study to kinect up to the wall, though it may take me a couple more days to make a viable interaction. I think I could have a video of it ready by the end of next week--when are you hoping to put the Website on the Internet (WotI)? It wasn't at CDG, but in June of 2012, InterLace (as Montage Interdit) was used as a dynamic medium at the second Berlin Documentary Forum to facilitate an extemporaneous conversation between documentary filmmaker Eyal Sivan and scholars Ella Shohat and Robert Stam. Here is a photo by Hila Peleg showing the four of us on stage in front of the InterLace UI: http://teleputer.org/montage-interdit/bdf2_hila.jpg And you can see Eyal alone on stage *definitely* not using Keynote: https://anti-utopias.com/admin/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Montage_interdit_2-670x366.jpg But this may be too indirect, broadcast-y, and non-CDG-y a use of the spatial medium for this collection? > spaces for seeing and thinking and pointing at things > - representation gallery > - magnetic icons + iPad app for making them (those things on the right side of the library whiteboard) > - RMO's hyperopia + receipts taped to the wall Here's a short description of the Hyperopia Thing: Hyperopia Thing (2014) ---------------------- Custom offline-Wikipedia interface and thermal printer, embedded into an old encyclopedia. Offers wireless network with captive portal collaborative encyclopedia; tracks browsing and prints receipts of drifts in realtime. Look at something closely enough and the truth of the universe is manifest in its every detail. The name "hyperopia" refers to a (supposed) defect of vision commonly known as farsightedness. Hyperopia is a device based on the principle that "Reading is Writing" and that focusing attention is a creative act. In this case, reading from the encyclopedia literally ejects a new paper document comprising the associative trail of a reader-writer's clicks on links, images, and article excerpts. Paper begetting paper. -- I have a nice image of the book here, which could complement an image of the receipts in the CDG space: http://rmozone.com/misc/revue-art-data/2014_hyperopia-thing/IMG_1944.JPG Do we have a tripod somewhere that I could use to record a video of the receipt promulgation? > spaces for reading while surrounded by context > - maxwell diorama and maxwell hanging mobile (in the library) > - RMO's cartography of time overlappy thing + kinect browsing Again, this will take a couple days to stage and film, but I think switching from the couch-screen to the earth-wall will help it feel more integrated into the architecture of CDG. ... though I doubt I'll be able to match your animated gif, walkcycle notwithstanding. It might be worth including both schematic and prototype. > Some of these will need more work before they should be shown, but that work won't happen without the motivation of having to show them. Indeed! In the hours after my Grilbert-zoom night session yesterday, I've been reflecting and think I finally have the will to properly publish a WotI of my own for the video projects and prototypes I've developed in the past four (!) years. I think I had been somehow hoping that all of the work would culminate in a single piece of software, a scenario that feels increasingly distant. Simply documenting all of my experiments in an active/explorable document could achieve the larger point of saying: more is possible than YouTube. I have a list of 25 projects/processes I want to document, and several interfaces that I will need to port from python to Javascript, so it will be a large task, but I'm optimistic that I can finish by year-end and greatly look forward to all of your uncompromising feedback! Your correspondent, R.M.O.