Re: [-empyre-] Art Chicago 2002

[Tiffany Holmes <tholme@artic.edu>]

Hello all:

Neil, glad you got a chance to see the Follow the Mouse installation!  I'm
just now recovering from all of the "cheesy" Mickey Mouse repartee that this
sort of piece inspires in the crowds of visitors unfamiliar with
experimental/new media art works.

The installation is really a simple office cubicle: partition walls, desk,
chair, CPU, keyboard, monitor, printer.  All computer actions, however, are
controlled by the movement of a live mouse, as opposed to a plastic one.  I
like to say that I'm developing "liveware" instead of hardware for artist
use.  Currently, the mouse is engaged in a process of creating drawings out
of simple shapes.  The height and width of the shapes are controlled by how
fast the mouse is moving, opacity is controlled by the overall amount of
motion in the cage, and position is determined by the rodent's location in
the cage.

Documentation: http://webspaces.artic.edu/~tholme/mouse/mouse.html

For those of you bound to ISEA in Nagoya this fall, you'll see this piece in
the exhibition.  Would love to meet other empyre members at the festival!

Best, Tiffany
______________________________________________________________________
Tiffany Holmes, Assistant Professor
Department of Art and Technology
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago IL 60603
Phone: 312-345-3760,  Fax: 312-345-3565
http://www.artic.edu/~tholme/

> From: "Smalheiser, Neil" <smalheiser@psych.uic.edu>
> Reply-To: empyre@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 08:57:59 -0500
> To: empyre@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: [-empyre-] Art Chicago 2002
> 
> Tiffany Holmes uses a live mouse to control a computer (like a computer
> mouse...)  Since she is a member of this list, perhaps she would like to
> elaborate?
> 
> Neil Smalheiser
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