[-empyre-] 'deceleration' and dark matters / Taylor research

[aslemeur at free.fr]

Hi dear List,

Sorry for my late answer but reading and writing in a foreign language  
requires more time !!
even more while teaching and working on other projects too.

I forgot to tell that the image appears on the side, on the fringe of  
the visual field of the viewer. So the image calls, attracks him/her  
and then disappears. If being looked at.
So the viewer has always many options : to move or not to move, to  
move slowly or fast, to move forwards or backwards. even to take time  
before moving !
And the image reacts accordingly.

The installation has jus been exhibited in ZKM for 10 days, end of  
this last August, till the beginning of September. A quite calm period  
so I could welcome each visitor better. :)

It is funny that some people can\'t slow down easily. How can we lead  
these speedy people to change their tempo ? or their values, or their  
sight ?
Some others are trapped by the text they have just read and can\'t  
behave normally anymore. the bests are (often) kids and teanagers.

My idea was to question the desire of power by limiting the power, and  
to give experiences of losses of vision. To frustrate the viewer so  
he/she would realises he/she has to change behaviour to achieve  
something. (The image has the power over him/her.)
but this \'something\' (the image) is still bound/full with emptyness  
(minimalist image and made with this black stain inside).
and probably refers to internal/mental images. one spectator spoke  
about images seen in coma or by close to death people.
Is it what you meant by \'de-visualization\'. ?
but at the same time some cosmic images sometimes appear.

I could not read all the sent messages (sorry not enough time these  
last weeks)
but I have not seen any comment on a \'masculine\' desire of speed ?  
or a \'feminine\' desire of slowing down ? Probably not so present in  
the dance milieu but more in the technological one ?

I would like to mention too that slow interactive works are not easy  
to exhibit,
(I mean to make the curators decide to exhibit them)
because they don\'t belong to the \'funny\' ludic show we are in.
and my work insists on slowness, darkness, silence and isolation... !

Anne-Sarah

I can put my text in .rtf on a link if people wants it in another form
there is another text, focusing on the environment elements :
from the http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/outre_r_eng.htm
clic on Short presentation text
it opens http://aslemeur.free.fr/projets/txt/lemeur_outre_eng.pdf

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\'deceleration\' and dark matters
empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au[1]<\>  
[empyre-bounces at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au[2]<\>] on
behalf of Johannes Birringer [Johannes.Birringer at brunel.ac.uk[3]<\>]
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 6:11 PM
To: soft_skinned_space [empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au[4]<\>]

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 viewer 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<\>

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