Re: [-empyre-] some questions about vogs

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 12:57 -0500 18/6/02, Patrick Lichty wrote:
> What I consider performance only happens through a continuous ongoing
> feedback between participants in real time.  This can be as simple of chat,
> but the 'social bandwidth' narrows significantly.  Also there has to be an
> ongoing cognitive loop in the mix.

i think that's a useful description. and of course i imagine 
participants don't all need to be real.

a question patrick. i have a simple vog (which often doesn't work on 
pc, though i might've fixed that, forgot to check) which is a 
photoshop sketch of some mountains, when you mouse over the sketch 
there are hotspots that dynamically load a real time image from that 
place via a newspaper web cam. they're straight off the web cams, 
which i think are updated every 30 minutes or so.

now the work has no cognitive abilities, but what i like about it is 
that the work operates as a relay in relation to the user, because it 
loads content from elsewhere (which i don't control) and so when you 
use it there isn't really anything to get or interpret, but it will 
always be different and variable, and so i return to it a lot to see 
what the weather's like, etc. so in some sense it is just always an 
open work, and it just provides itself as a context provider and 
relay. and by relay i think i mean that it's a feedback loop of some 
sort which isn't quite a loop because the feedback is more about 
returning to the piece another day to see what's happening, but in 
some way i'm wondering. is this performance? and where would the 
cognitive loop be?

the work is available at, if you're on 56k and you see the sketch you 
will probably need to wait a little while for the 4 or 5 external 
jpegs to be requested and cached by the movie.
http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/vog/1.2001/bergencams.html

cheers
adrian m
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