Wiretap at V2 / Date: 2001-11-25

[Claudia Westermann]

This Wiretap will be live streamed at www.v2.nl/live

http://www.v2.nl/wiretap/index.php?lang=en

Date: 2001-11-25
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Wiretap 7.11 "i-Body: motion - ctrl - space" focuses on how the body can 
play a pivotal role within technological settings.

Navigation systems in virtual environments are increasingly becoming based 
on 'motion tracking' (the registration of movement). There is quite some 
experimentation with interfaces which feel more natural or direct to the 
user than the traditional mouse/keyboard interface (the so-called command 
interface). The quotidian activities of the body, such as walking, 
breathing or the blinking of the eye, lie at the base of the research and 
development of bodily-controlled interfaces.

The topic will be examined from various angles, including perception, 
manipulation, control and participation.

Guests:
Andrea Polli (USA)
Is an interactive media installation and performance artist and member of 
the faculty of Hunter College's Film and Media Department.
She has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. Her 
performance work with eye and motion tracking devices has recently been 
shown at SIGGRAPH 2001, Invenção in Sao Paolo Brazil, ISEA 2000 in Paris. 
In 2000, Polli produced 'pause', a large scale web-based public art project 
as an Artist-in-Residence of the nation-wide Millennium Community Arts 
program.
She also produced the webcast performance project, Rapid Fire with Franklin 
Furnace in New York City as part of The Future of the Present residency 
program..

Yves Bernard (B)
Has an academic background in design and computer science and is a media, 
producer activist, and software engineer. For the past decade he has 
collaborated with artists and is very much interested in the topic of 
collaborative processes between artists, engineers and art institutions. His
latest project is the installation AVATAR, in collaboration with artist 
Frank Theys, which incorporates motion tracking techniques.

Tim Boykett (A/AUS)
Holds a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science, and is founding member of 
Time's Up: a Linz-base (A) laboratory for the construction of experimental 
situations. Using haptic, human scale interfaces, Time's Up's projects such 
as the Hyperfitness Studio (V2, Sept 1998), Sonic Pong and SPIN immerse the 
public individual in body relevant spaces. This loop of control and 
perception through the bio-mechanics of the body is one of the main arms of 
research.