Week 5 – Wednesday, February 27
Hypermedia Projects Presented in Class
Readings Discussion
Surveillance and Privacy Issues and Examples
IMAGINE PROJECT ASSIGNED
Telepresence, Surveillance, Privacy
This is a photo from the 2009 Inauguration, In which you can see IN FOCUS
The face of each individual in the crowd !!! You can scan and zoom to any section of the crowd… wait a few seconds… and the focus adjusts. The picture was taken with a robotic camera at 1,474 megapixel. (295 times the standard 5 megapixel camera)
http://gigapan.com/gigapans/17217
Telepresence: A computer-generated environment consisting of interactive simulations and computer graphics in which a human being experiences being present in a remote location.
Tiffany Holmes’ course: http://www.artic.edu/~tholme/surveillance_course/index.html
The Truman Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYj2m1yVpGU – trailer
The Public Private: Exhibiton at the New School: http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/subpage.aspx?id=88126
Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico’s Face to Facebook, a multimedia installation of one million Facebook profiles, which were appropriated” by the artists, filtered using facial-recognition software, and then posted on a custom-made dating website sorted by facial expressions.
Jill Magid’s Evidence Locker, a stage with 242 cameras. See Q and A
And, now 21 years old, SPIN by Brian Springer — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlJkgQZb0VU
Telepresence:
The Telegarden: http://queue.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/garden/Ars/
The Mercury Project: http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/
Ken Goldberg: http://www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/index-flash.html
Eyes of Laura: http://eyesoflaura.org
Liverpool Station:
Watch this one first
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM&NR=1
THEN WATCH THIS ONE: It tells you how they did it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFNM8f9WnI&feature=related
SPIN by Brian Singer (EXCERPT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZQrEvk2hkc)
(a total “aside”: DARE at http://www.iniva.org/dare/)
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Readings and Posting Assignments:
Intro to “Robot in the Garden, ” – Chapter 1 – The Unique Phenomenon of a Distance at http://ieor.berkeley.edu/%7Egoldberg/art/tele/intro.html or http://goldberg.berkeley.edu/art/tele/intro.html
and Surveillance and Capture, Two Models of Privacy, posted in Resources
Forum: Surveillance/Privacy
consider several aspects of telepresence and survelliance – privacy issues, are we all “actors”, and other issues emerging out of the readings
Assignment: Create your INVENTION WISH LIST – see “Assignments” section for instructions (due March 6). Post yours and respond to others.
