Exploring the Moon

Media Theory Pressure Project 4.

Exploring The Moon from Alex Oliszewski on Vimeo.

Exploration of the Moon | a 2 minute audio centric narrative

Video of the moon at the end of the work was provided by Artist/Composer: Garage

provided through Creative Commons license: Attribution

Video of Apollo 11 provided by NASA.

The "found sound" in this piece is comprised of works available within the public domain.

This video in turn is available through a Creative Commons license of: Use with Attribution.

Exploration of the Moon | a 2 minute audio centric narrative

Video of the moon at the end of the work was provided by Artist/Composer: Garage

provided through Creative Commons license: Attribution

Video of Apollo 11 provided by NASA.

The "found sound" in this piece is comprised of works available within the public domain.

This video in turn is available through a Creative Commons license of: Use with Attribution.

Media Theory: A Day in Observation

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Interview With Frieder Weiss

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I just found this interview with Frieder Weiss at European-tele-plateaus.eu. I have been following his work and found this interview very informative, both on where Weiss is headed, and where he has been. As I have mentioned before he is the developer of Eyecon a motion sensing software technology as well an algorithmic artist who has collaborated with a number of different dance companies. One of his collaborative works with Chunky Move, Mortal Engine, is slated to for a series of performances at BAM's Next Wave Festival this December 9th - 12th.

Research Methods: MindMap

Below are two snapshots of the current state of a mindMap / purpose journal that I am keeping for Thea 500: Theater Research Methods.

You should be able to zoom in and get a sense of the contents.

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Media Theory: Pressure Project 2

~ from Alex Oliszewski on Vimeo.

Pressure Project 2: A non-verbal gesture based and encoded transmission of one of my first memories.

Media Theory: Preasure Project 1

Pulp Fiction Translation from Alex Oliszewski on Vimeo.

My translation of the "Cheese Burger Royal" scene from Pulp Fiction through Google Image searches of the key words and phrases of the conversation.

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Chunky Move: Mortal Engine

You can find here a brief and very positive review of Chunky Move's new piece Mortal Coil from The Dance Journal.

Cultural Media Isolation

Among others, Sam Stein from the Huffing Post has pointed out that Fox News Channel has now twice been found mislabeling Republican politicians as Democrats durring a national election. The more recent example coming from their coverage of SC Governor Mark Sanford's trysts. The final lines of Stien's short post reads: "There is, of course, a small danger to these quick journalistic missteps. They get repeated. Look, for instance at this Google News finding for 'Mark Foley, D-Florida.'"

Though it may seem anti-intuitive at first I have a sense that our current networked communication technologies are able to isolate individuals and perhaps groups of people from good information.

A market saturated with a pervasive Cultural Media - that can be targeted to individuals - can be tailored to mislead specific individuals and thus exert cultural influence.

Second Skin: Low Cost Motion Tracking of the Body

An Image of photo-sensors embedded into a fabric sleeve and a visualization of the tracking information generated bye the Second Skin system.
Photo from the Technology Review, found here.

Besides falling below the one thousand dollar mark Second Skin is notable for using a novel method of projected light and photo-sensors in conjunction with a vibration base bio feed back element. The idea being that this device is designed not only to the sense the body of the performer in space, but also effect a form of control over their performers body. There are a number of interesting comments in the Slashdot article where I first found the article linked above and this video which demonstrates the Second Skin technology, both hosted by the MIT Technology Review.

You can find the home page for the Second Skin project here: http://cameraculture.media.mit.edu/secondskin

The two main folks behind Second Skin are Chris Bregler and Ramish Raskar.

Programming TimeMap

TimeMap Software Programming from ole kristensen on Vimeo.

I found this wonderful video which goes into some of the details behind the performances developed by Ole Krstensen and Frieder Weiss.

I found the original video here.