http://transitlab.org Brian Degger explores technology, art and other things... Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:14:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SInce leaving Singapore, time has become extremely compressed. I have visited SymbioticA, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Interactivation Lab, Centre for Social Robotics, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Fish Markets, Australian Maritime Museum, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Creative Industries precinct at QUT,  been on ferries in Brisbane and Sydney, and a ... http://transitlab.org/2008/08/23/compressed-time/ ABSTRACT The massive rise in satelite navigation devices (and use) in cars is possible because the Americans turned off the scrambling device on the GPS satellites. However, because navigation is governed by the shortest distance between points, it may lead trucks down tiny roads, or people cars through waterlogged fiords. Something is ... http://transitlab.org/2008/08/06/lost-in-location/ Eggpass Lo-fi social networking. Rosanne Marshack and Richard Valentin "On Augmented Reality-Enabled Social Network Traces of Pratitya-samutpada (Interdependence)" were tracing their social network with 12 black eggs. These eggs were simple to make, nice to hold, but at some point the paths stopped. The participants had become too attached, ... http://transitlab.org/2008/08/05/eggpass/ Dr Brian Degger – independent researcher brian@transitlab.org (see a picture of me at talk here) Location! Location? Location!! Can location neutrality exist in artworks? (http://www.isea2008singapore.org/abstract/a-c/p450.html) Brian Degger This paper starts from examining the notion of location neutrality, contrasting artworks that feature a locatitive media or location independent aspect. Art in these works serves to enable ... http://transitlab.org/2008/08/05/location-location-location-table-of-works/ I have just run a session on ethical protein provision for the luminous green event 31st July in Singapore 2008. Luminous Green is a series of gatherings about a possible future; about a human world, that is enlightened, imaginative, electrified and most importantly – living in a fertile symbiosis with ... http://transitlab.org/2008/08/05/ethical-protein-at-luminous-green-singapore/ Image via Wikipedia Why do the terms fishy and shit so negative? I think it is a disengagement or disenfranchisement event. It is a woprd that connects with the intense olfactory reaction.....bus can we get past its olfactory unplesantness and explore what we could activate these terms for the betterment of ourselves. I ... http://transitlab.org/2008/08/02/something-smells-fishy-everything-is-shit/ abstract Aceti and collaborators are developing a technology that can look at how virtual reality affect emotions. It is his goal to get to an experiential idea of how to affect emotions. He is actually trying to measure the responses, eeg, perspiration, etc, the reaction. This is quite a powerful idea, ... http://transitlab.org/2008/07/29/isea-aceti-mediated-virtual-visions/ In the PING, an alternate reality of control (Eelco Wagenaar, Arjan Scherpenisse) talk (abstract  here). It was exhibited at mediamatic amongst others. Games are about fun rather than winning. They have made a simple ping game, simple in technology, but not content. The structure ... http://transitlab.org/2008/07/29/ping/ Margaret Schedel, Elizabeth de Martelly 117 Realizing the Moment: Towards a Continued Role for Technology in Art. The need for scores in art has become important in the preservation of the art. Video documentation is not the work, and does not recreate the work. It was interesting that one example that ... http://transitlab.org/2008/07/28/importants-of-scores-in-electronic-art/ Image via Wikipedia Steven Pinker and SWAMP are really interested in Phineous Gage, who suffered from a railway spike passing through his brain, he didnt die, but his personality changed for the worse. This runs counter to the idea of the noble savage. Matt and Doug from SWAMP talked about  Vladimir Vernadsky ... http://transitlab.org/2008/07/27/phineous-gage-is-a-fatality-of-the-industrial-age/