I recently found Marc Owens’s work Avatar Machine. The work successfully reproduces the 3rd-person viewpoint used in some computer games, and feeds it back to the “player”, who sees their body as an avatar. For me, it’s a great stepping stone from the considerations of spatial engagement in games, and the projection of identity, to the politics and phenomenology of navigating through real space.
Avatar Machine [LONDON] 2008 from MARC OWENS on Vimeo.
Qi Pan, a 3rd year PhD student at Cambridge University Engineering Department, has developed a system for on-line (constructed in real-time) webcam based reconstruction of textured 3D models. The video shows off the potential for this best:
Even better news is that a demo may be available soon. Qi is working on porting the code, and you can register to receive an update when it is done on his page.
12/Nov/2009 – In a few months time when code porting (to new library versions) is complete, a Linux-based demo of ProFORMA should be released. This will be followed by a windows based demo.
Time, Transcendence, and Performance was a three-day conference held at Monash University, Melbourne and focussing on the title fields, through Philosophy, Performance Studies, Architecture, and Film Studies. Presenters included Stelarc, Brian Massumi, Alphonso Lingis, Erin Manning, Anthony Steinbock, Jeff Malpas, Peter Snow, Jack Reynolds, Ian Maxwell, Martin Del Amo, Sue Healey, Monika Tichacek, Movement Research Melbourne, Nikki Heywood, Lanei Rodemeyer, Madeleine Flynn and Tum Humphrey, Peter Fraser, Danielle Wilde, “and more”. Below are my notes from the three days of the conference. (I have only written up the presentations which I attended, so this is by no means a comprehensive survey.) Alternatively you can download the notes properly formatted in PDF of day one, day two, and day three.
Subscribe to all content
You are currently browsing the neonascent weblog archives for November, 2009.
| www.flickr.com |