EV Graduate Seminar - AD508 F08

Hidden Horizon
Description:
In today’s urban landscape the horizon cannot be seen, it is always hidden by buildings, houses, advertisement, etc. There is almost no point in the city where the human sight can go beyond a hundred meters in horizontal direction.
A series of panoramic windscreen projections will be assembled to cover the width of a building. [...]

Maybe a good starting point to approach the text is the work “Synthetic Performances” by Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG (http://0100101110101101.org/home/performances/index.html). Here are some extracts from an interview about this work (complete interview):
Are you sympathetic to the people who become absorbed in fantasy games like “Second Life” or who are driven to live vicariously [...]

Reading Lev Manovich’s text I keep thinking about the monumental scales of most of the spaces that the text talks about. It seems that the augmented space is in a lot of the examples a monumental space.
Vectorial Elevation the Raffael Lozano-Hemmer installation had always appear to me as a sad example of how a person [...]

presenation-seeking-deeper-contact
In this link you will find the pdf for the presentation of Professor Huhtamo text.
By Julio Obelleiro and Alejandro Borsani.

I had mixed an old code that I had with the TUIOdemo code. The old code was already a modification of an example from http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~traer/physics/ .
You’ll need to install the traer.physics library from here http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~traer/physics.zip
To play you need any of the figures, you can use as many as your arms and processor allows you to.
Download [...]

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