[-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 78, Issue 1; Sky Pavilions vs. Dewanatron

[John Cleater]

rough uncut document of Sky Pavilions vs. Dewanatron:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HJt6DBB8uE>




On May 2, 2011, at 2:10 PM, John Craig Freeman wrote:

> Hi Greg, Are you asking if AR is Choragraphic? I would say yes, at  
> least it has that potential, when it is done well. During John  
> Cleater's Sky Pavilion performance with Dewanatron last Saturday on  
> the Highline in New York City, part of the Gradually Melt The Sky  
> exhibition, Brian and Leon Dewan where commenting on all of the  
> details, both profound and banal, which were visible from each of  
> the four or five locations that the tour stopped. I have been on the  
> Highline dozens of times and never had such a holistic sense of the  
> city and its mood.
>
> http://www.cleater.com/html/AR/001_AR.html
> http://www.areyoudevoted.com/
>
> Cleater writes,
> Sky Pavilions are virtual cloudbursts filled with nonsensical and  
> practical guidance. They may be located near cultural landmarks,  
> empty fields, abandoned developments, or even above your home. They  
> cause disturbances in the atmosphere and may jump out of bounds  
> without notice. These hovering vessels are prepared to carry you as  
> far out or as deep within as you need to be.
>
> Dewanatron, Brian and Leon Dewan, will be channeling practical and  
> nonsensical guidance from the core of Cleater's Sky Pavilions  
> hovering over the Highline in NYC. Originally conceived of in cast  
> iron, these elastic forms have slipped into Augmented Reality and  
> carry with them the same highly reflective elusiveness as their  
> physical twins. Hold onto something as you witness a dueling  
> marriage between this world and the next. The Dewan cousins, who  
> design and build electronic musical instruments, were recently  
> thrust into the spotlight when Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross engaged  
> the Swarmatron to take the Best Score Oscar for “The Social Network.”
>
>
>
>
>> Message: 18
>> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:18:57 -0400
>> From: Gregory Ulmer <glue at ufl.edu>
>
>> The preceding paragraph sketches only the contrast of AR metaphysics,
>> but I meant for this post to be a question for you and the other
>> contributors. It has to do with this invention analogy ? that ?being?
>> (as Heidegger said) is thought only through writing (it is an  
>> emergent
>> possibility of literacy). Could you comment (further) on the  
>> experience
>> of AR (making but also receiving), on the manner of thought and/or
>> feeling that it provokes or supports? The question is related to your
>> appeal regarding ?existence? ? concerning the dimension of Real  
>> opened
>> by AR for reality.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Greg Ulmer
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>
>
> John Craig Freeman
> Associate Professor of New Media
>
> Emerson College
> Department of Visual and Media Arts
> 120 Boylston Street
> Boston, MA 02116-4624
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> john_craig_freeman at emerson.edu
> http://JohnCraigFreeman.net
>