#telepresence
IMAGINATIVE
Telepresence art installation by H.O features two rooms, one with a display with eye-tracking interface to control a ceramic cup, the other a chromokey-suited robotic arm to carry out instructions from the former room:
What if our thoughts materialized as tangible actions in remote locations?
IMAGINATIVE is an installation work consisting of two rooms.
In the first, there is a monitor displaying a table with a cup in an empty room. Using a specialized (eye tracking / brain computer) interface, participants can telekinetically control the cup in the remote space. The shifting of the cup back and forth, poised in the air, expresses someone’s imagination in real-time.
In the second room, the audience will encounter an extraordinary spectacle. Sitting on the table is a green robot arm enabling the cup to move, while the floor surrounding the table is covered in broken cups.
Given that brain computer interfaces directly connect our “consciousness” with the external world, what does “imagination” mean? What is the “imagination” that we present to the world?
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HOST’S DIARY - telepresence durational installation at CultureHub’s REFEST'14 Art&Technology Festival (21,22,23 November 2014)
@dannyblueboy@ARTEKLAB@Notengopajaros@saramalinarich The Host Diary pic.twitter.com/hyjdiiRQGx
— rachael runner (@Rachael_Runner)November 22, 2014
Visit Host’s Diary webpage to get a full overview of the documentation processed and archived via twitter of all the interactions made during the connection.
Amazing moments at #Refest@culturehubnyc#Host’s diary by @intact_01#telepresence social power! pic.twitter.com/qsoEYCwyY9
— ARTEKLAB (@ARTEKLAB)November 25, 2014
All information about the piece: www.intact01.net/host-diary/
CONTEXT: Refest. Culturehub, NY.
EXHIBIT: La MaMa Gallery
DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPE:
- House located in Velázquez Street (Spain).
- A room inside Mala Voadora’s Theater (Porto, Portugal)
Starting Time: 01AM (Madrid) / 07PM (La Mama Gallery, NY) / 00AM (Mala Voadora, Porto)
Artists:Intact Ciberculture|Culturehub
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LAND PROJECT / Mediated Motion
Archetypes of mediated motion across a distance and in relation to the screen
Lisa Parra ( @lisaparra ) & Daniel Pinheiro
Invited to perform at Festival DDD (Portugal) this encounter of LAND PROJECT was shown on April 26 connecting Casa da Arquitectura (Matosinhos, Portugal) and LaMaMa rehearsal studios (New York, US). Throughout February and April, Lisa and Daniel, picked up on the methodologies of their networked practice to develop yet another activation of a movement duet across a distance.
more information and video documentation here
more information on LAND PROJECT: http://landproject.tumblr.com
‘MEDIATED MOTION / LAND PROJECT - Moving Across Screens (Feb - Apr 2019)’ here
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LAND is a collaboration of two distinct artists living in separate continents, Lisa Parra (New York, USA) and Daniel Pinheiro (Porto, Portugal). The project investigates concepts of physical versus virtual space, and how we embody time and presence via the internet for creating a “relationship”.
More information: http://landproject.tumblr.com
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landproject has been selected to participate in this years 4th Choreographic Coding Lab - CCL #4. The lab will take place in New York City and will be hosted in partnership with ITP department of the Tisch School of the Art at New York University.
During this time Lisa Parra ( lanaisnotwool ) and Daniel Pinheiro* ( daniel-pinheiro ) will be working in collaboration with artist Olivia Jack(rhizomaticode ). We will be developing on the webrtc interface for approaching different ways to understand the space of the screen for collaborating at a distance and the possible inter-action.
More information on this will be updated using our twitter account: @LAND_PROJECT // and @motion_bank
CCLs are an outcome of Motion Bank, a four-year research project of The Forsythe Company focused on the creation of on line digital scores with guest choreographers.
*The participation of Daniel Pinheiro in this edition of the CCL was made possible with the support of The Luso-American Development Foundation.
Hyperspace is a completely hybrid and promiscuous space where everything is intermingled and networked with everything else, a space where cultural and territorial markers have been deleted, a space marked by a total lack of distance. (…) Of course, the internet certainly has elements of hyperspace and speeds up global hyperculturization. Culture in a classic sense disappears in what is, so to speak, more cultural than culture, namely in hyperculture and in reality: as Baudrillard would put it, it disappears in what is more real than real, namely in hyper-reality. #electronicpanopticon (Byung-Chul Ha)
LAND PROJECT moves forward questioning the strong sense of everything that lacks or, in fact, moves at the rhythm of how the internet shapes the identity of a relationship based on encounters and discussions, a relationship that is lit every time onliness happens and pulls the time and space in between.
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I find it interesting that the context of the internet is what has created and shaped our relationship. There is this paradox of you being a stranger yet at the same time a close friend, that is. something more than just a collaborator. The rhythm of how we work and move together is also interesting within the notion of ‘feeling present’– I know that you are there even when you are not. (Lisa)
Aside from what drives both artists to keep interacting together, while other ideas come in to the conversations, there’s a constant movement of the bodies in relation to each other. A remote entanglement between two particles in the same stream of consciousness where the intersection of juxtapositioning flow of the natural organic coding between two human entities occurs. Out of the repetition, the meaning and significance changes every time. And in the development of an enduring system of mediated communication, the possibility of performativity of a process that loops into a continuous transformation.
it’s about the impossibility of dealing with the untranslatable and its affections… (Daniel)
The different setups that materialize, also, this project to audiences and other participants (see Performeando and Online Cooking) are fragments of an established set of guidelines that are resultant from a specific environment shaping this connection.
Ultimately, opening up the rehearsals towards an unknown, unnamed, or undefined object that contains the essence of what the connection is made of is always in relation to how two bodies place themselves in front of each other and striving to feel one another.
check our page TIMELINE:PROCESS
[full] video documentation of “Mediated Motion / LAND PROJECT” (raw edit)
Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro
Performance showing on April 26, 2019
Invited to perform at Festival DDD (Dias da Dança), dance festival in Portugal on April 26 2019, thanks to the invitation of Flávio Rodrigues (artist and curator of DDD OUT*), LAND PROJECT continued to be developed, between February and April in different encounters exploring the concept and notion of “mediated motion” as a form to investigate possibilities of common action at a distance. The encounter aimed, through its development, at exploring possibilities of uniting the remote spaces/locations – Casa da Arquitectura (Matosinhos, Portugal) and LaMaMa Rehearsal Studios (New York, US) – and connecting the outdoors/public space ( @daniel-pinheiro) with the indoors/intimate space ( @lisaparra ) {an idea to be developed further into the future}.
While exploring the concept of (re)-mediation, the setup where the performance took place in Portugal and where audience was expected to be present was structured so that the spectator could choose from which perspective to watch the live interaction and some artifacts, such as materials tested for video projection purposes and a playlist of the previous encounters/rehearsals leading to this presentation.
*DDD OUT is a section of the festival, coordinated by Balleteatro which curates dance works to be performed in the public space.
Read more about the process here.
Visual documentation here.
Robo-Butler: Atlas cleans your house
Finally. I’m pretty sure that there’s a niche in the housekeeping market for slow multi-million dollar robots (funded by the US Government). At least in luxurious hotels in Asia and the Middle-East.
But seriously: Why the dull robo-butler work? IEEE spoke with John Carff, ATLAS robot operator at IHMC:
ATLAS needs to be run often to make sure that code updates don’t break anything, and running the same tasks (like DRC tasks) over and over again gets boring. So, IHMC just came up with a bunch of fun ideas, and tried to get ATLAS to do them, and this is something that they hope to continue to do (yay!).
Despite the superficial absurdity, it’s pretty impressive to see that ATLAS can use pallet jacks and is able to crouch down and pick things up off of the floor. But - sorry for this one - its sweeping skills remind me of this fella:
