Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Dietmar Offenhuber - ?

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Here is piece that have yet find notes on but if I were to guess I think it will have been done similary to the 5 minute places. By this I mean I think various individuals have been given videocameras and a car and driven around a motorway junction, for example spaghetti junction outside Birmingham. The positions have then been partnered with the images and visually laid out.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Dietmar Offenhuber - Routine Pathways

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Here three women simply talk about their daily lifes and this then visually represented using typography and graphics. The diagram compares the time they talk about a specific subject to its actual length. A very simple but effective piece in partnering graphics and language together.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Dietmar Offenhuber - Loopcity

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In this piece Offenhuber takes great inspiration from the Beckett novel L'Innommable that describes a world made up of a system of repetitive events. Here he has tried to create a peice that visualizes the notion that everybody does the same thing during the day, you drive to work, walk to shop etc. He states that the unusual thing is that on these seemingless travels you encounter other strangers doing exactly the same thing, maybe the same one everyday and this is when the circles then intersect. This piece strongly shows the things that can be done by mapping peoples actions and displaying them visually.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Dietmar Offenhuber - BLANK Exhibtion

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An exhibition piece displayed at the Medientrum Gallery Graz.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Dietmmar Offenhuber - 5 Minute Places

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Here Offenhuber created a piece using GPS and video footage. Individuals were told move in all directions as their position was mapped by GPS, one was then given a videocamera as well. The peice investigates what directions and course the cameraman takes when interupted by the other individuals that cross his path. This piece I feel is interesting as it starts to make you wonder what the other individuals saw on their journey's and what have we missed that might have been interesting. Also it makes you study the cameramans path, seeing if any of the other individuals intimidated him or veered him of course.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Dietmar Offenhuber

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Dietmar Offenhuber is an artist that uses programming and images to create intertwining notions of individual journeys. He programs software to obtain and plot where the image had been taken physically then upload this information in to somekind of visual representation. It is this reason I am looking at him, hopefully he will give me some interesting and new ideas to display how and where images have been taken in the virtual world. I am also looking at Offenhuber for both pieces as in a way is work is relevent to them both. First of all his use of how images are laid out and captured will interest me in terms of my PixiSnap idea. Secondly for my Humanity Gap he also does various peices of work that record human travels which will help me hugely in telling the simple dots in my peice how to behave.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Ben Fry - Shop Activity

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Here fry has created a program using Java and Perl to map out activity in his Media Lab for a two week period. The above is just a snap shot , the whole peice is 72 x 24 inches, where times are displayed across the top and dates down the side. He mapped the activity using a video camera, where activity was minimal thin lines occur, where activity is maximized thick lines occur. It is a very effective way of emphaising the business of the lab at certain times and works well with the shear whiteness of the background.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Ben Fry - Revisionist

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This peiece is a program created to visualize the connections and changes of data in a processor when performing various tasks. For example lines are formed between data that has changed and gaps are left where data has been deleted. It almost simplifys the code and makes it understandable to a virgin programmer, through shapes, colour and typography.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Ben Fry - Mariosoup

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This piece is another graphic design piece based on the unpacking of Nintendo game cartridges. It decodes the program as a four colour image revealing various individual elements that make up the game screen. Done in Java it first produces a blue copy, then a red one and finally superimposes them onto each other. This gives an accurate visual representation of the program being unpacked.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Ben Fry - Colloquium Posters

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The above poster is a graphic design peice half the size of an A2. It explores polynear narratives by taking photographs of an individuals personal item then transcribing what they say about it.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Research - Ben Fry

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Ben Fry is a graduate of MIT and is interested in how scientific information is visualized artistically. Above is just one of his works "Genome Valence" it uses data used by scientists to visually represent the process in which they go through to understand using genomes, if a certain organism is biologially possible. I will obtain images and information on his work to try and come up with some ideas on how to visualize and group individual pieces of data, for example images. I am looking at Ben Fry to undertsand how programs can be used to collect data from other programs to then create visual but informative art. It will give me ideas on how to structure an effective and informative album section for my Pixisnap piece.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Ideas - Humanity Gap

Humanity Gap Idea, originally uploaded by James Wellock.

The idea for this peice is to show in a simple form how pathetic we has a human race are when it comes to simply getting along. We can't stand each other, and because of this boundries are put up using huge walls such as in Berlin and the Gaza Strip. Is this right, why can't we simply just get along? The way the peice will do this will be to ask the user to look after a number of dots that bounce around the viewport, the catch is that when the dots hit each other they die. The aim then for the user is using the curser create gaps between the dots by drawing green lines(boundries). The result in the end will hopefully signify the destruction of each dot as there will only be a few left bobbin around. There will be massive gaps between them and this will show the user that all this fighting and erecting boundries we do as a species in the end makes us lonely and insignificant, and ask the question is it worth it?

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Ideas - Pixel Snap Interface

Pixel Snap Interface Idea, originally uploaded by James Wellock.

Above is tha actual interface for the Pixel Snap idea. The left nob controls the dimensions of the square created. The middle nob contols the squares left top corner's x position in the window and the right nob the y's. The rectangle button then takes the snap while the red light tells you that is has by flashing.

Studio - Gaps in Reality - Ideas - Pixel Snap

Pixel Snap Idea Jpeg, originally uploaded by James Wellock.

The above idea originated from the times when pixels on our screens of pcs, laptops, pdas, mobile phones etc have died and left a random blank sqaure or set of sqaures usally right in the middle of your screen. Really out of a screen that has at least 800 x 600 pixels one or two shouldn't bother us, but they do. We wonder and dream what when working or playing games these dead pixels are hiding, both angering us and frustrating us in their shear blankness. This notion then got me thinking, what do we do in the real world to make sure memories don't get fragmented and lost, we take pictures either with our digital cameras or now and more interestingly mobile phones. This got me onto the idea of snapping these pixels when they are working and saving them in an album, a virtual album that would compliment a real one in you home. One thing I wanted to show in the above screen print of the idea was the comfortable anolog feel of the interface. You don't draw boxes and copy the screen but actually have to think about scaling and positioning as you do with a real camera. Then once pixels are snapped by the box a album will be created letting you fill in the blankness when pixels die or simply when you can't remember what you had done on the computer.

Virtual Environment - The Artivice and The Virtual - Research - Jan-Robert Leegte

Jan-Robert Leegte is a media artist that questions what is real and what isn't and attacks the obvious. One such example of this is his work on "Scroll Bars" where he installed sets of them into actual rooms to investigate what affect this had on the viewer. Other work relates to screen work that uses your movement and input to makeup images, this creates a great sense of un-nerving and almost feels like you are being watched. In many peices for example "Scan" he only lets you see one aspect of the work at the same time, creating a great sense of imprisonment and frustration in the fact you can't make out the whole image due to it being fragmented. Now though that I have had a look at some websites I think I need to get some publications on his work to better understand his theories.

Virtual Envronments - The Artifice and The Virtual - Research - Norm

Norm are a group of graphic and typography designers based in Zurich. They investigate into the notion that all objects on the planet can be put into 4 distinct groups and catogorised. Through this analysis of these groups they then create graphical rperesentations and programs to visualise their theories, one such example is the "Sign Generator" under the heading "The Things." Another resource of their work is the book they published called "Norm The Things" in 2002. Here they delve in further into their notion that all objects can be pidgen holed into certain boxes. The next thing I need to do now his start looking at other peoples interpritations of their work and investigate other theories and arguements.