Bosun Whistle Crow http://www.alansondheim.org/seal22.jpg https://youtu.be/LHwPmkh-Fic playing with crow into the wind, seals and cormorants in the distance, out of sight, a lone clamor in the background, invisible, the crow transforming everything, the beautiful dry sound of the whistle http://www.alansondheim.org/seal23.jpg My grotesque body. Today, a crow, we heard the sounds of its wings, loud and near us. But that wasn't the crow in the trees, in the distance. Misplaced Description of Everything in my Life and Work * "There are several categories. There are a number of still images "charprint" - these represent charred bodies, the results of genocide; they're small 3d-printed models. They've been shown in London, Spain, and Providence (the first two through Furtherfield, the last at Interrupt through John Cayley). They're the result of distorted motion-capture work - you can see some of this at 2p, body loses body, mocaps.mov; these were produced by either altering mocap software or remapping body nodes in various ways. I had extensive residencies at West Virginia University's Virtual Environments Lab, where these and other works have been produced. The same figures have also been used in Second Life, MacGrid, and other virtual worlds; the results are things like numbhir, hypnagogic, thedead, etc. I deconstruct SL avatars in the ruin. A lot of the work deals with anomalies in virtual worlds - regions or activities which operate half-in and half-out of the worlds - examples include suicide (look at suicide.mov and ignore suicide.mp4, it's not as sharp), switching, and the two reality pieces. Pain and some of the other pieces use text. Gunscan deconstructs a gun by altering laser 3d-scanning program parameters. Floodwall is a sped-up version of a codework I did on a bridge at Johnstown, Pennsylvania; in 1889 Johnstown experienced one of the worst disasters in the U.S. - 2209 people were killed when a dam burst, and the debris wiped out several towns. Everything ended up at the bridge. I programmed the bridge to say HELP in various ways - QRRR, MAYDAY, and SOS. The piece was run for several days and can be activated again. www presents an anomaly in Second Life which ends up representing a Wide World War, constant bombing. the dead was used as part of a suite of pieces dealing with genocide, performance, ISIS, and terror that was, for me, the basis of a stint at the empyre email list, where Johannes Birringer and I moderated a discussion on these issues for a month. aaggd is more complex than it appears; the images - which seem to be ordinary video feedback - are actually send around the world, and it's the circuit that creates them and the slight lag between them. This was done using the conferencing application in linux, Access Grid, and specifying the nodes the image/sound would have to go through - we used Morgantown in West Virginia, and a site in Queensland, Australia. This is also the case for hypnagogic. Fb images are from Facebook; I used a photograph of a severely wounded WWI German soldier as my personal image, trying both to cut through the surface of Fb and represent the horrors of war. The photograph is from Krieg dem Krieg. Finally stripped is the result of stripping altered motion capture movements from an avatar body, and re-presenting the movements on an abstract group of forms; I worked with this to examine how movement itself might represent consciousness without any other visual indication of organism. *sent with examples and additional text to a gallery. I pray, please please show me, I will play my bosun whistle for you and surely some crow will sing. And together we will fight the current regime and raise a flag. And the flag will have a bosun whistle and crow on it. And we will win. The crow will win. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
