[-empyre-] 'deceleration' and dark matters

[Johannes Birringer]

thanks Anne-Sarah for sharing your work –  "Outre-ronde - Beyond-Round. (Lentir, sentir, sondre)" 
  –  with us, and some of the links where we can see the configurations for your interactional design...

was it just now shown at ZKM in Karlsruhe?    i like the overall "theme" of the exhibition,  "Au creux de l'obscur - Into the Hollow of Darkness", 
but I maybe i am saying so as I read Akram's post and David's reply on the matter of matter (and dark energy);  

it might also be interesting to look at "Outre-ronde" and then ponder again Gordana's many insightful posts and also Claudia's on interaction rituals and how observation or action vibrates in such mediation events..... alongside the (not fully described and thus blurred) re-search Branden is engaged with,  on "Cockpit, Test, Vertigo –– a study of the airplane cockpit as a prototypical space of interactivity".... 

and incidentally, Anne-Sarah, your image & text reference to "Outre-ronde"  (http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/images/lemeur_zkm_verso_eng_web.jpg) is fascinating, can you repost that text here? and how did you react to Jaime's concepts of "de-visualization," - when you say your work explores the resistance of the image to be seen?

as to Akram's posts on the accelerations (and galaxies), they make my mind reel outre-rond, 
and underneath the strange equations I remember you drawing on my napkin the other week, Akram, 
now via David the less well hearing Chinese Whisperer*  [what is this?, like horse whisperer? ], i sense many infuriating and exhilarating paradoxes.  
Already they are being attracted.

–--  let us go one more day and one more night –


* broken telephone? 
thanks Branden for noticing my small reference to the death of Kittler, I did not know him nor read many of the theories, but the "Gramophone Film Typewriter" (1999) is truly wonderful.

Somehow i am so amazed at Akram's writing about SOUND and the beginnings of the universe, hearing matters, that i am confusing the telephone with the gramophone.


** oh, i checked on Chinese whisperer, in the wikipedia:

>The name "Chinese whispers" reflects the former stereotype in Europe of the Chinese language as being incomprehensible. It is little-used in the United States and may be considered offensive. However, it remains the common British English name for the game.>   

there goes..

peace
Johannes


>>Anne-Sarah schreibt>>

Thank you very much for these discussion theme, so interesting to question with technologies ! Some of you may be interested in my interactive work Beyond-Ronde (Outre-ronde in french)
http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/images/lemeur_zkm_verso_eng_web.jpg

I would like to testify of the surprise I got watching people interacting with my early work-in-progress.
How can we have someone slow down through an interactive art work ?

In my work, the screen is cylindrical so that the image can move around the viewer. It appears, disappears and moves according to his/her behaviour and gaze direction (sensor on the head). My purpose is (mainly) to lead the vewer to a contemplative state while querying his/her desire of controling the image that is escaping his/her gaze, as long as they are moving 'too' fast.
I discovered that as long as the image is moving fast to avoid the viewer\'s gaze, the viewer is moving fast too. They can\'t stop moving and looking for watching. The viewer is really reacting/imitating/following the image position. Even if they see it is aimless (they hardly see the image).

I had to have several progressive phases. One where the image disappears without moving, one where the image appears and moves faster that the viewer, till he can\'t turn anymore. One featuring a slow tango between the image and the viewer. The last one, the contemplation one, without movement (but variations in the image).

I would be happy to get any comments or links to other similar works,

Anne-Sarah
http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/outre_r_eng.htm
http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/outre_r_video.htm