[-empyre-] empyre Digest, Vol 78, Issue 1

[Gregory Ulmer]

  On 5/2/11 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.
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> http://www.cleater.com/html/AR/001_AR.html
> http://www.areyoudevoted.com/
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Certainly relevant to chora as electrate "topic" (topos):  Mood as 
interface.  The theory suggests developing a category practice 
homologous with how the brain stores memories (according to 
neuroaesthetics):  clustering around shared emotional tones (not library 
of congress classification).  A challenge for AR is to coordinate the 
capacity to express the feeling of a cityscape with streaming data.  
Perhaps a mediation could be the ability of fractal programs to simulate 
cityscapes (and most other shape configurations).  A link with 
choragraphy in its historical form is the use of mimetic maps 
(chorography with an "o") to help ship captains recognize which port 
they were approach from the sea.

Greg Ulmer

> 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.
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> 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.”
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks
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>> Greg Ulmer
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> John Craig Freeman
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*Gregory L. Ulmer*
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