Re: [-empyre-] intro

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

As I wrote someone backchannel, there are numerous projects that come to
mind. Given the bandwidth, it's possible to build in both video and audio
lag / displacement; it's then possible to create projections of real-time
communality, community, and see how these develop. A second project I've
been thinking about involves dance (re: Merce Cunningham, Foofwa
d'Imobilite) and delay in terms of tension/release call/response.

Any situation which is stimulus/response - even the Mars landings - and
which is also digital, capable of two-way manipulation, fascinates me. A
final possibility would involve the possibility of a parasitology - three-
way connectivity in which a third and otherwise unseen entity manipulates
the other channels.

One could also explore of course the protocols used, traceroute presenta-
tions and protocols exhibitions - AI and automata modellings occurring at
such high speeds that one shape-rides the results - and so forth. The
possibilities are endless -

Alan


On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, tobias c. van Veen wrote:

> hi everyone,
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> <tangent>
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> Of note,
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> http://tot.sat.qc.ca/
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> There are several art centres worldwide (V-2, etc) that have the necessary
> bandwidth & it's becoming more common, also at many universities. However a
> large investment is required (along with time and software programming).
> Perhaps the financial and technological aspects will constitute the main
> bottleneck for direct IP, realtime interactivity ..
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> I'm currently working on curation for digital happenings using such
> technology, with Montreal's SAT - http://www.sat.qc.ca . For the next
> question is one what _does_ with such technology other than to revel in its
> apparent immediacy.
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> best, tV
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