Artist Presentation: Time's Up- Laboratory for the Construction of Experimental Situations

http://timesup.org/

Domestic Bliss:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10464117@N05/sets/72157623841904528/show/

"Domestic Bliss is the first public situation, which is integrating our new developments towards physical narration. An audiovisual, interactive story around a crime in the early sixties gets told in an apartment, solely through due the arrangement, the relicts and the audiovisual environment.

The flat on the first floor of the backyard building seems to be inhabited, there are signs of human activity everywhere. Who lived here? What kind of relationships did they have to the space? To their neighbours? To the house? To the city of Linz? How real was their domestic bliss? The work asks questions like what traces does a person leave in a room? Can you identify the character of somebody by just seeing their private space?"

http://timesup.org/content/domestic-bliss

Body SPIN:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10464117@N05/sets/72157615306040368/show/

"THE INTERFACE SPHERICAL PROJECTION INTERFACE
Over the last few years Time's Up has assembled a variety of innovative devices, designed to help bridge the gap between virtual and physical environments. We are aiming for a close correlation between virtual and physical worlds. Even though we like the dinky glasses and the spacy helmets, we also find them a hindrance for our purposes. We want a most natural way to take our physical body into this world and use as many of its capabilities as possible. Thus SPIN, the Spherical Projection Interface.

SPIN is a three meter in diameter translucent sphere of rear-projected material, which is supported on bearings allowing it to roll in all directions. The walking movements of the person inside the sphere are registered by a trackball mounted below it and feed into a computer system. Information relating to the user's position data serves as parameters for navigation in a three-dimensional computer-generated world. This 3D world is projected onto the surface of the translucent sphere with 4-5 projectors.

The resultant immersion of the whole body in a virtual space enables a panorama view such as has never been seen before, while the user achieves an unconstrained freedom of movement in every direction by walking.

THE APPLICATION - BODYSPIN
BodySPIN is an interactive installation based on the SPIN Spherical Projection Interface. BodySPIN aims at researching behavioural patterns in a simulated environment that incorporates the user´s body rather than trying to overcome it. The research focus lies not only in the consequences of a VR-System onto the user´s body, but moreover in the influence of physical presence on the creation of such a system and its feedback upon the body (loop).

The user is equipped with a small body pack to allow real-time measurement of the necessary body functions. A system for muscle activity measurements, a breast belt to allow scanning of breathing frequency and a clocking device for pulse rate are all fed back into Virtual Environments projected upon the Spherical Projection Interface (SPIN)."

http://timesup.org/content/body-spin

Project Proposal:

For my project I'd like to create an "environment".  I'm thinking something like having big photographs and then somehow making some part of the photographs move or light up possibly in tune with music or sounds.  I'm not entirely sure what I'd do but maybe if I had big pictures of say the city and somehow I could put real lights on or behind the photograph and they could possibly flicker with the sounds or music.  If it were just sounds then use various speakers to direct the noise from different areas.  Also I'd like to incorporate scents.  (Somehow release scents to add to the environment.)  And I'd like to install objects but I'm not sure exactly if they would just serve on their own to create the environment or if they too could do something.  Basically this would be bringing still images somewhat more to life without making it a film.

2. Materials: Camera, photo paper, speakers, lights, max/msp?, materials to add scents

3. The visitor interface: Creating another environment inside a gallery space that deals with time and space.  Making 2-dimensional art into 3-dimensional and possibly 4-dimensional.

4. How the artwork will be displayed: On the walls and possibly some objects on the floor and ceiling.

5. Challenges and solutions thus far: Figuring out how to get started.

6. Anticipated challenges and solutions: How to make select areas move or light up.  Printed photos or projected??? I'd prefer printed.

Objectives and Intentions in creating this artwork: Explore how different dimensions relate to one another.  Create something extra; adding an environment; transporting the viewer into another place.  How to incorporate more senses.

Hope to engage the viewer: The trouble with photography I find is that many times we only use sight to experience the photograph.  This way, more senses are used.

This project is relevant to my current art practice: Photography major.  I enjoy creating narratives (tableaus).  This would be combining a physical tableau with the photographic tableau.