so what your saying is, you want me to do crazy dance moves in a funny suite
during your coding performance at the today's art festival!? oke, i can
bring my Fristi dancemat with me for you to hack on stage.
http://www.jetix.nl/localise/fristi_dancemat/fristi.html
and then you'll let me have the cyborg body??
luc
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Kassen <signal.automatique_at_gmail.com>wrote:
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> 2008/7/28 luc van Weelden <luc.vanweelden_at_gmail.com>
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>> go kas!
>> i'll be there!!
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> Cool!
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>> (um..if your not taking that cyborg body, i'd be interested)
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> Yes... well.... I have to say that I was just wondering what the "TOPLAP
> lawyer" intended to do with my old body. And here I was thinking that in
> livecoding people were supposed to be after one's mind... :¬p
>
>
> Speaking of bodies and livecoding (warning, wild tangent will follow);
>
> Some time ago I saw a installation at a exhibit of work by media technology
> students from Leiden (it was and still may be at the Rotterdam museum of
> photography). The installation consisted of a arcade cabinet and a helmet.
> The helmet made it impossible for the wearer to see and was equipped with
> headphones. The headphones gave instructions (move forward, turn left, etc)
> based on command input on the cab's joystick and was equipped with a video
> camera, the image of which was displayed on the cab's screen. The kicker was
> in the "fire" button and the water-gun with which the helmet-wearer was to
> be outfittted. This was supposed to investigate guilt and responcibility but
> nobody seemed to feel especially guilty, probably due to the hot weather.
>
> Anyway, it struck me that if you can do that you could also make the
> commands be synthesised by a livecoding system instead of a joystick. Such a
> system could get it's input from a set of sensors (pressure seems especially
> interesting but it might also be cool to analyise sound and make people
> dance to music they can't themselves hear). This would basically "open up" a
> representation of the central nervous system.
>
> Of course this would require a lot of turst on the part of the wearer of
> such equipment but that might be solvable to some degree by recruiting
> somebody with a masochist streak (I often get the impression that's quite
> common amongst programmers...), trading places with the programmer for the
> next performance and/or a padded overall.
>
> Cheers,
> Kas.
>
Received on Wed Jul 30 2008 - 00:01:00 BST