Put Something Here Part 2

For Put Something Here Part 2, I've manage to explore the figure of the shadow that is cast by another. In my last Put Something Here Project, I was straight forward with the casting of my shadow with the first movement that came to my head. On my second take of this project I managed to discover many other images that my body casted making me both puppet and puppeteer. I mostly played on chance and random movement as much as a dancer would change to a different motion. I remained true as possible in front of my car lights and close enough that my shadow was still readable to the occasional viewer.

(picture soon posted- see camera for now)

Craig Kapp

Craig Kapp came to class and talked about Augmented Reality. At first I didn't know what to really think until he showed us a simple Valentines day card. He set up a camera connected to his computer, uploaded a certain program and the next thing I know the characters on the page pop out and start preforming. At that point I was sucked in, i was seriously at the edge of my seat wondering what else he has to show us, and after seeing that card I know what kind of card I'm gonna get my girlfriend for her birthday.

The revolution of Augmented Reality is defiantly going to be our near future. One iphone game app he has showed us made me seek it out. The app was a game where you can go and hunt ghost located with in an area near you. You use your iphone or ipod touch and hold it up near the area until you see the image of the ghost. Then on the screen you attack and capture it. This game app remind me of a game for the PSP that is all to real in its concept. It's a mix between Pokemon and the app Craig introduced us too. They game helps you track monsters within your home, and once you find it you try and capture it, once caputred you can then use the creature to battle with your friends .

Augmented reality isn't just for entertainment purposes only, they are also used for educational uses as well. Craig show us the learning use of this new age of technology. It can show diagrams and and processes in the use of text books to help explain certain diagrams as a more interactive image. He then showed us a pop out memorization game little children can play and help with their motor skills as they develop. As the future continues, technology improves and from what I saw what augmentative reality today has for us, makes me want to stick around to see what and how this technology is going to improve.

Sarah Drury

Sarah Drury's presentation was very interesting to both my ears and my eyes. Her voice box installation was unique in the possible viewing of three different images. As people interact with the installation, it flips between images. The third image comes into play when the interaction of the piece intensifies, the outline image of the person interacting then overcomes the video itself, only showing one of the other two images within the outline of the person interacting with the installation. The technology used fascinated me flipping between images making it different every time someone interacts with the piece.

Another piece of technology that caught my interest was the performance that she showed us, the Robot Dancer. Created by Margie Medlin, the Robot was an assembly of metal that is able to bend to the dancer with rotational motion sensors. As the Dancer moves and bends, the robot then repeats similar movements showing a mirror image of the dancer. I enjoyed the whole concept of the technology and the way it was used throughout the whole performance, if present I can defiantly see myself being mesmerized for hours on ends.

Technology has seized to amaze me after watching this one documentary for this one piece. It's called Under Scan by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, after recording a thousand short clips of random people laying down looking up to the camera and interacting with it in their very own way, they would have a tracking system in an area and when someone would pass through, it will then project one of the random clips where ever the pedestrian will be walking. I was blown away when I saw this technology in use as well as the thousand of recorded random clips, making wish I was there until I've seen all one thousand clips, more or less.