ONE Night, 31 May 2014
ONE Night: EZTV, LA ACM SIGGRAPH, and Digital Art in West Hollywood
is coming up on Saturday 31 May! Vanessa Blaylock Company is collaborating with EZTV & Donna Sternberg, et al on a Mixed Reality component to the evenings activities. Our avatars will be projected outdoors on an inflatable balloon or the side of a building.
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Nice hangout today with Christa, Ciara, Kate, Michael, Rebecca N., Hugh, and myself. More great topics than we had time for. Here’s a few snips from my typing in response to compelling ideas from the other participants:
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Hi Rebecca! I know of 3 of the Kickstarter type funding sites. There’s no doubt plenty of others.
As far as I know the oldest and sort of most established / respected of the platforms. You cannot fund things like “school,” but you can fund a specific project, so you could write that you need €4,000 to produce 1 or a series of dance pieces to be performed at various venues at various times. With Kickstarter it’s all or nothing. If you don’t make your goal nobody pays and you get no money. Their theory is that if you don’t have enough you can’t do the project and it’s not fair to the investors to have 1/2 a project.
Similar to kickstarter with the big difference that you get the money even if you don’t make the goal. Some people think it’s flakier for that reason, but others who aren’t sure about their level of support like the flexibility.
Different in that it IS for funding your activities like school. So it might be ideal for your situation. Although I do like the opportunity Kickstarter offers to focus on specific “deliverable” works. Some might be happy to help out with your school costs, but others might feel like more of an arts philanthropist if they know their money is helping to produce 6 new choreographic works presented in 3 cities in 2014 – 2015 and that for their contribution they’ll have access to exclusive video previews and video chats with you and some of your team. It seems like a nice “excuse” to build out your network of colleagues and audience members.
Best wishes on your exciting project Rebecca!
Hi guys, me again! I was just looking at all the cultural institutions tweeting come see our X, Y, Z… seems like they’re always trolling for F2F visitors. And I found myself tweeting:
Michael J Masucci is discussing. 
The Net is not merely a place to pimp your RL stuff. It is a place in its own right. It is a place to live and work.— Edie M. Sedgwick (@EDiEMONSTA) May 14, 2014
Which I think is kind of what Ciara was saying about .Re/act. It is interesting how many peeps instinctively use new media in the most simple, banal ways! Or perhaps by following Cultural Institutions instead of Individual Artists I’m making that more likely.
Monday 9-10am California Time / Noon-1pm New York / 18:00 – 19:00 CEST
Facilitator: Rebecca L.
.Re/act & Online Collaboration – Ciara
Computer Love & Hacking the Timeline v3.0 – Michael, Kate
Funding Art – Rebecca N.
Guerilla Drive-Ins – Hugh
Oh BTW, as previous Shakers know, and new ones will see, you might have to “Pin” me to read my typed blabbing. But it’s no fun to stare at meee the whole time! So just pin & unpin as you like. You can read for a minute, but then go back to letting Google Hangout direct the stream. As I understand it, if you don’t pin someone, then it switches to whichever participant is making the most noise, which is generally the person talking. (unless, of course, Xta’s hubby is typing loudly! 😀
Happy Mother’s Day!
(USA, Germany)
Our next monthly hangout is Monday 12 May. Click the read more tag for agenda & full details!
Hi All! I noticed that in addition to hangouts we have salons, mixed reality events, etc going on. So I created a “Berry Shake” Google Calendar and added the 10 of us addressed on this message with Read & Write permissions. Hopefully GCal sends you an email about it… if not… LMK!
Feel free to add anything relevant… whether it’s an event including several of us, or just your own solo activity. Hopefully a Google Calendar is the easiest way to do this, LMK if it isn’t. I thought about making another .Re site for the calender, but I .Re/sisted that temptation! I hope GCal will be easiest…
Irony.Lee, Ravanel, Hazelaartje, Skygirl.Kline & Ulaval (me) during today’s field trip to the virtual world of Tera
Field trip to the Virtual World of Tera today. I was very clueless. But it was a very fun space. And nice to go discover it with a group of friends.
EZTV’s co-hosting a young scholar from the U.K. who’s been creating and Anthology on Computer Art & researching EZTV’s history.
Google hangout:
Wed 6-8 California time
* Andrea Foreander / 18th Street Events
* Andrea Foreander / An Essex Girls Guide to the Universe
Andrea’s talk was very Interesting! Unfortunately the audio was pretty hard to hear: I think it might have been a combination of speakers not being that close to the microphone in a boomy room, multiplied by massive Google Hangout audio compression & audio artifacts. When it’s a “broadcast” more than a “Hangout / Chat” maybe we should try something like Ustream and see if it’s any clearer / less compressed. For some reason, perhaps mic proximity or vocal characteristics, whenever Michael spoke he was the 1 person that way crystal clear! 😀
I’m dashing out of the studio ATM, but here’s 3 interesting points Michael raised, and I’ll comment about them later in the day:
Thanks so much for streaming Andrea’s talk!
Dear Moni, Trilby, Mireille & Aeon! aka “Owen’s Band!”
There’s a new Mixed Reality project brewing and I thought I’d turn first to “The Band” to see about your interest / availability.
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This sounds like fun! Thank you for the note, Vanessa. The timing seems good for me, and I look forward to learning more.
Happy SPRING!
In today’s Mixed Berry Shake (tx 4 great name Ciara! 🙂 Kate expressed the concern that students in this new media age are so focused on new tools / toys and how they can gain an audience with them that they don’t care to / have time to, appreciate the history of their own medium.
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I am indifferent to colorisation, but B&W = Irrelevant is ignorant. Grapes of Wrath is what it is because of the use of light and dark. Manhattan would blur into <Annie Hall 2 were it not made in B&W. Dr Strangelove stands out from the pretenders.
Limitations of a medium is one of the impulses to create art through imagination. The best reason to colorise is to keep interpolators away from evaluating pharmaceutical trials.
Here’s today’s agenda:
* LACMA Grants
* Mixed Berry Shake 2014 schedule
* Van’s new Avatar Alphabet
Add any other links / ideas in the comments!
Sounds delicious 😉 Thank you for the invitation to hangout. I’m really sorry that I can’t join in today. I hope you have a good meeting and I look forward to hearing how things go.
Ahhh, Ciara, I was looking forward to your being there today. I hope you are able to join soon!
Hi all! Links here to my very early google hangout experiments for the performance (http://foolsfury.org/fury/) that’s happening this weekend. The piece is called “The Seeing Place” and is a meditation on Antigone. For this round, we hadn’t created aliases and were all using our own google accounts, so sadly there are no character names attached.
Soldiers
http://youtu.be/bwUrYKtMvns
Is an example of a scripted scene; text is from Brecht’s Antigone interspersed with an interview of a contemporary U.S. soldier serving in Iraq. The idea here was to replace my big old headshot with footage (sans audio) of the Creon character giving his edict prohibiting the burial of Polynices.
Creon Haemon 1-1
http://youtu.be/fcna_9j0qtU
and 2-1
http://youtu.be/fdV0pLlEVbA
were both attempts at overlapping texts spontaneously… made very difficult by the audio & video delay on our various internet connections. These also include two observers: one listening in at a local Starbucks, and another roaming the main branch at the SF Public Library. We were interested in what the effect of non-verbal participants would be.
The plan for the performance is to have one (very different) Google hangout that’s prerecorded as one of the scenes in the show, and another live hangout where audience members can see the Antigone character leave the theatre under guard. I will post a link to that Hangout-On-Air! Thanks Vanessa for that excellent suggestion.
That’s very little context for you, but any thoughts or questions are welcome!
Vanessa Blaylock & Bibbe Oh (Bibbe Hansen) dancing in the fountain at Trafalgar Square
Dancing with friends for the 10th anniversary of Beth Fein’s Dance Anywhere!
Wonderful! Thank you for this, Vanessa. I just posted in another place that my %#^& screen recording plan went awry because I FAILED TO TURN IT ON before the performance. I recorded every other thing — every rehearsal, whether formal or informal, making sure I had the technology down. Then, at the moment when it mattered, I failed!
Hah! “Ruin is a great teacher….” Indeed.
Also, Michael told me that the second performance was marred technologically by someone-who-shall-soon-be-clobbered’s unmuted microphone! (my husband’s).
Hah! Again. Perhaps it was my male ancestors making their presence known.
Here’s to you, Mistress of the Muted Microphone! Thanks for your support. It means a lot to me.
xo
Ysidora’s What’s on [My] Mind just started! I’m watching by Google Hangout with EZTV and the live performance in Houston.
(I wonder if you can easily run a “real” camera (or cameras) into a Google Hangout. Haha, I’m so demanding! But anyway, if the camera could switch or move, that’d be a nice extra dimension.
Anyway, Ysidora just started singing!! Something about living with a white girl…
“Your mom throws everything away and that’s why she has no history”
“She has no history because she is a woman”
“My brother died twice…
she was acquitted because they were convinced she suffered from “menstrual madness”
What gets aborted?
We don’t know.
Awwww. Sugar. Thanks for being there.
In yesterday’s Blueberry Hangout we discussed Molly’s continuing work with Opal Whiteley, and Michael introduced the fascinating artist Shea Hembrey. Like Roberta Breitmore, The Watermelon Woman, Luther Blissett, and many others, these artists work with ideas of Identity & Authenticity, of Fact & Fiction.
If you think about it, Rrose Selavy’s oeuvre isn’t all that amazing. She really only becomes interesting when you out that she’s “really” Marcel Duchamp. Oh isn’t that clever and insightful. Serbian artist Darko Maver created simulated horror and carnage of war installations. His pieces about war in the Balkans shocked and mesmerized audiences around the globe and even at the Venice Biennale. The twist was that he wasn’t a “real” artist presenting simulated (“fake”) war imagery; he was a “fake” artist presenting “real” war imagery. Maver’s work had already had a “real” and global impact, but the twist made it resonate more deeply (and also more artworld insiderly)
Are alternate identities only, or most, interesting once outed, and therefor rendered somewhat “over” once the punchline has been sprung? Can, Should, and How Does, an alternate identity stand on its own?
@nickvlcek turned me on to another one:
Donelle Woolford as performed by various people hired by Joe Scanlan.
Woolford at the Whitney Museum:
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial/DonelleWoolford
Interview with Scanlan:
http://bombmagazine.org/article/3580/joe-scanlan
It’s interesting to find these gems… there’s a sort of cool, but very incomplete and on hiatus directory… I’d love to add to it or start one like it… I should contact Antoinette LaFarge and see what she thinks:
http://fictive.arts.uci.edu/
Christa, Molly, Michael & I had our monthly Blueberry Hangout today. We were joined by Isabella Medici who’s recruiting faculty for Medici University.
Everybody is so busy!
Christa:
http://14pews.org/calendar.asp?pageid=15&calid=908
Molly is doing several things with her Opal Whiteley project, links coming soon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Whiteley
Michael: OMG! The USC Libraries One Archive is ALL about EZTV!
http://one.usc.edu/category/programs/upcoming-programs/
Rebecca:
we unfortunately had some sort of connection mishap with Rebecca, but here’s her latest blog post:
http://rebeccalongworth.blogspot.com/2014/03/no-there-there.html
Katrina doesn’t love us anymore (just kidding!) but here’s the teaser for her exciting new solo show:
Isabella:
http://MediciUniversity.co.uk
http://1560.MediciPrincess.com
Vanessa Blaylock & Ayara Illios
My friend Meta Lord, producer of the annual Dutch Gogbot event was nominated for “Sexiest Actor” in The Sexiest Awards! Here’s a photo of me dancing at the afterparty with Ayara Illios who was a double-nominee for Sexiest Actress & Sexiest film.
Meanwhile if anyone remembers that old “PBR” MOOC, the peeps over on the FB group are determined to get the certificates promised in the syllabus and for some reason, the instructors seem adamant that certificates not be given:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1397802437119883/1432171353682991/?notif_t=group_comment_reply
I’m not in that loop. I bailed out of FB and into Diaspora. Something similar but more flexible and open source. And oh yeah, user owned so Markie Zee doesn’t have his mitts on my stuff. Do the instructors give a reason for not wanting to give the certs seems curious? I can’t really see the cert being a deal breaker in a job interview though so it seems like a little bit of a waste of energy. But people will often stand on principle before they stand on their own two feet.
Agreed Hugh. It’s not worth making a fuss. Yet weird that the MOOC that asked for more work than any I’ve taken doesn’t want to pass out certs. The instructors apparently claim they never offered one, but the FB group has pointed to the promise in the syllabus.
I originally liked the vision of Diaspora. But love or hate FB, it’s biggest strength is that it’s the new “Phone Book” with almost everybody in it. There aren’t a lot of peeps (that I know of) to share stuff with on Diaspora.
All true. I just feel ikkey every time I use it and I have this messiah complex. If I join they will follow. So far I only know one person there. Perhaps there is an opportunity for a collaborative project there?
Yes Hugh, there are SOOOO many platforms out there! For any activity you like there are numerous Proprietary, and numerous Open choices. Just to take blogging as an example, you could get an account at a proprietary site like Tumblr or Medium or Blogger, or use Open software like WordPress or Open Blog or Ghost. Or many others!
It’s an obscenity of riches! Perhaps all the choice / confusion is even a piece of why so many mostly use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and that’s it. “FTY” IS “The Internet” for many. I was shocked to hear that many people can go a whole week without ever using Google Search, since I, like so many others, use it so many times every day.
It doesn’t have to be an oversimplified binary thing, but when I’m choosing which Feudal Lord to pledge my allegiance to, I choose Google. They’re still proprietary, and they definitely make choices I don’t like, but when it’s Google vs anybody else, Google’s perspective almost always suits me better than the other peeps.
With FB vs G, for example, Facebook really wants to be The New AOL. They’d love it if you never left their walled garden. It’s not quite that simplistic, and they do provide lots of hooks in and out, but I still find some truth in that perspective. By contrast, Google really wants you to surf the complete Information Superhighway, they just want to be the gas station on all the on-ramps. As a blogger, the Google perspex suits me a whole lot better than the FB.
Great metaphor there at the end, Van. Love this discussion!
Hi guys! Have you noticed how slooooow .Re/act & .Re/search have been lately? It’s driven me crazy! Was it always this slow?
The good news is that I’ve just moved our hosting from MDD to WiredTree and I’m hopeful that our sites will perform much better now.
LMK how they’re running for you and if you have any questions or suggestions on how things work or the way they look! 😀
Hi Vanessa, thanks for this explanation and update! I had noticed that the site seemed to be getting progressively slower to load but figured it was something more to do with my internet connection than the site hosting. Re-act is definitely reacting much faster for me this morning!
Yay! A faster .Re/action is a better .Re/action! 😀
Katrina is our scheduled facilitator for Monday. I haven’t heard if she’s available yet, so here’s a tentative agenda if Katina is not facilitating. (If she is, then our agenda will be whatever she’d like to set.)
9-10am EZT on Monday 10 Feb (EZT = EZTV Time = PST or California Time)
sounds great! I have another video chat scheduled right before so I may be a minute late logging into Blueberries. It’s a lot on the agenda but I look forward to hearing updates about everyone’s projects. Talk to you monday!
Hi Molly, Michael & Christa… I’ve not heard from Katrina or Rebecca yet… so we may be short of our “6 Blueberries” this month… what do you think of inviting someone else to sit in with us? Like Ciara? Or Kate? Or?
That might be diluting the Blueberry “team.” Or it might be maintaining the team across natural evolution. Any thoughts or preferences?
Cortana
In case there’s any doubt that virtual culture is driving “real” culture, in your new Windows Phone 8.1 update, your “personal assistant” will by Cortana from Halo.
Of course what platform peeps prefer will vary by many factors, age not being the only one. But I do think age is pretty significant. So here’s my “beta 0.1” draft of platforms and ages. Do you think I’ve made mistakes? Are there other platforms you want to add? LMK!
Old People
No Internet At All
Email
Facebook
A “P2” site, like .Re/act
Instagram
Snapchat
Young People
Am I the only one who, when trying to talk like 1850 takes all the contractions out? As if people in history didn’t use… my apologies… as though they did not use contractions?
Dearest, perhaps you are. Donnie slurs a lot, but I’m not sure that counts as contracting speech.
Oh, I’d figured the style was rather more a consequence of Izzy’s breeding. You know, the language of the Italian Court – as in the “Queen’s English”, the (King’s Italian). As we know, the Queen has limited access to apostrophes and avoids truncations in her palace 😉
IKR! Contractions are a small move toward vernacular speech and away from formal speech. Although I’m not sure if I avoid contractions for ancient “royalty” as just a simplification of any “ancient” speaker.
Ysidora my BFF!? RU out there? How do you use language??
OMG, that website that we thought was Studio West was only the staging area! The real Studio West is up now and everybody gets their own gallery to show work in!
Video:
Visit:
http://t.co/2RJp8dWyzH
Amazing! How long did it take you to hang all that art?
The only syllogism seems to be if the classes are offerred in 135 countries, how many remaining countries are there and what prevents freedom in those countries. Is it that there are more than 135 languages in the world? Are there not enough computers and why? Are there restrictions that the U.N. should be more involved with.
Therefore, does the U.N lack an international educational and press function or provisions. “Filmed for the U.N.” or “Filmed for the U.N. by N.B.C United States”?
Are there schools in Space? No, not grown up ones, but everday that was spent in reducing nuclear weapons added technologies that would not have gotten past, and one day spy and or communication sattellites with return on their investment.
Does China spend to much on its military- irrelevant question.
If you’ve got any dweeb blood in you, you won’t be able to resist it. Just zoom in and marvel at the “New World”
http://jaysimons.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Internet-1-0-427143215
I followed Katrina’s link to the Ossuary project by Mary Beth Clark (of Spatula & Barcode) It’s a powerful work, but that’s not my question just now. The project has about 300 participating artists:
Yet I was the 1st & so far only person to bother clicking the “Like” button. (comments, sadly, are turned off!?)
Why is it so “easy” to get 300 artists to contribute a piece that will show in a gallery for some weeks, and so hard to get them to participate on the Open Web where all the people of the (wired) world can experience the work for as long as it’s relevant?
Hi guys, we’ve added “Markdown” to .Re/act. It’s a simple way to format what you say. One asterisk on either side of a word or phrase makes it italic, 2 makes it bold, 3 makes it bold-italic.
So:
italic
bold
bold-italic ooh ahh
gives you:
italic
bold
bold-italic ooh ahh
Embodied Knowledge in Public Space.
Is it possible?
How do you facilitate it?
Thoughts?
I want to answer this question, but I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “embodied knowledge” in this case. Would you state the question in another way?
I’ve been reading this article (which I found while looking into the term/jargon “embodied knowledge”):
http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_14/article_03.shtml
It caused me to think about public radio as a place to facilitate embodied knowledge….
Hi “Band”! Owen’s still waiting on the video, but he put up some stills of our Mixed Reality performance:
http://owengparry.com/#/mirage/4582238942
Aero Bigboots
AlexandreLois1
Ananda Crystal
Andrea Foenander
astrid
Aunt Renie
Aurelia Scheppers
Christa Forster
Ciara Finnegan
Bird on a Cyber Twig
Diptheria
Donnie Archer
Edie
Elle
Emma
Elizabeth Taylor Swift
Fanny
FeelsEmpty
Glad Kidd
Izzy
Jade Ravenheart
Kate Nova
Ken Doll
Mary Anning
Meg O'Ryan
Michael Masucci
Mireille
Molly Ross
Monerda Skute
Myra
Neeva
Newton
Michel Nostradamus
Oona
Oscar
Owen
Patrick J. Sweetman
Paypabak Writer
Pearl Grey
Rebecca Narum
rmarie
Ryan
Scarlett Luv
Sello Tape
Serra Qendra
Teresa of Avila
The Knight
Tiffany Mosienko
TrilbyM
Tullia Aragona
Vanessa
veyot
wendz tempest
Xue
Yellow Fever
Ysidora Pico
Yves
Zsophia
Mike is discussing. 
Rebecca, 
Ciara are discussing. 
Hugh are discussing. 
Michael J Masucci 15:25 on 14/05/2014 Permalink |
Your avatars will definately be projected on a building, not nthe ballon, which will project the drone camera’s transmission. The buildin will be a library, your image will be 45′ wide and projected using a 18,000 lumen Barco projector
Michael J. Masucci 08:07 on 28/05/2014 Permalink |
Hey Van,
Any chance you could do a test of our Wi-Fi connection today between noon and 3 or 4Pm? I will be at the location and want to do asimple test with just Google Hangout+ nto make sure we have an adequate connection on site. Thingsa re really progressing and we are so happy that you are a very BIG part of this!