1134562 from Sid Volter on Vimeo.

Live remix of the trailer for Walkabout by Nic Roeg, using Youtube & numbers on keyboard.
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encrypted video

stuff / research for bradford - Aaron Koblin

[Data Visualisation]
http://www.checkfacebook.com/
Aaron Koblin: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/info.html
Using 'mechanical turk': https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome

Mechanical Turk, the webservice by Amazon that allow software developers to coordinate users that execute tasks which computers cannot be able to complete. Merchanical Turk offers different forms of crowd-sourcing specifically where the people are participating really don’t having any context of the overall project that they are building.

The Sheep Market is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk. Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left."

http://www.thesheepmarket.com/

2,088 voice recordings collected from online workers assembled into the song "Daisy Bell" - the first example of computer synthesized vocals. Each individual was prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard without knowledge of the final task. A collaboration with Daniel Massey. 
http://www.bicyclebuiltfortwothousand.com/

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.
http://www.tenthousandcents.com/top.html



Chrome Experiments website: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/
Chrome Experiments is a showcase for creative web experiments, the vast majority of which are built with the latest open technologies, including HTML5, Canvas, SVG, and WebGL. All of them were made and submitted by talented artists and programmers from around the world.

Every time this rotates it is because your eyes are moving and re-adjusting without you realising it. Try to stop your eyes moving! By Akiyoshi Kitaoka

Wait from Sid Volter on Vimeo.

Welcome to Soundspiration: a page dedicated to works that inspire the SoundFjord Team!

This page has been incited to concentrate attention on a number of inspirational sound artists and their works. Over a period of two months, chosen artists are given a Soundspiration Spotlight: works are available to listen to (and in some cases, download where permission is been granted).

SoundFjord also details further information about the artists and their works, so you are able to fully acquaint yourself with their creative practices.

Listening Station
Our bi-monthly artists are:

John Hudak | People Like Us | .tobias c. van Veen. | Sid Volter | Michael Day

http://www.soundfjord.org/soundspiration.htm

when the bbc website talks about the recession, the machine vends crisps:

The emergent sea/Stream

Rite.. getting there. For those who like electronic/ experimental stuff, you cn now stream tracks from my 'concept' (?) album here

The emergent sea

googlemaps film

Using googlemaps to make a film..



HD here

technical art = translating data (?)

ah so they needed a visual objective graph to show them it was bad, instead of someone saying that a certain part of town was bad, who could have just made it up. (Although the way they represent it is also making it up, coz its translated by their standards) Good point coz the art is raising awareness.. Although even if they had different agendas there would probably still be this 'analysing stuff' theme in there.

I don't want that to be a 'is it art?' question, because that never gets anywhere! It's just noticing this is a bit of a trend, and asking why? Does techno-art need to be statistical at the moment? Fine if the piece you mentioned, the artists were doing a project on crime and people's perception of it, for example. But the packet garden had much to say what it did, but not WHY and things like this go unspoken just because 'it's technical therefore it has to analyse stuff'.

I'm not 'dissing' that sort of thing, coz reinterpreting is good etc.. But the worst thing is for someone to make something like that automatically - Sometimes it seems like it's an automatic thought - technical art = translating data.

re packet garden

this seems to be a common thing I think? Translating of information, or visualizing it somehow. Why is this important in art? Like the artwork mentioned before of making islands based on a person's gps movement - why this translating of information into another form? Does it do anything?

E.g. if I translate a sentence from english to french I could make the sentence look different - but does this improve my understanding of the meaning of that sentence? I could translate ANYthing into ANY picture (using my own made-up rules) - what happens? Just a pretty picture or a better understanding?

You could say that by re-interpreting it you are gaining a better understanding, through new eyes, looking at another angle. A spikey tree-graph of the internet gives you a wider view of it.

But then again - do our brains need visualization? - do I need a visualization of the route of my journey so that I can walk it? Or do I just do it? Does this kind of stuff have false meaning and just looks pretty or does it genuinely bring about new understanding? And do we need that much of this kind of thing? I dunno - anyone?

Packet Garden

Packet Garden. Grow a world from network traffic.

thunder....

I found a website today where you can type in speech, and pick your computer characters, who act out the speech for you. It gives you a nice mix of flexibility and constraint. After experimenting with it for a while I made this film. Please watch!



The text is called "The Thunder Perfect Mind", an old Gnostic script.