http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ en-us jo@turbulence.org 2007-07-12T09:58:38-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004536.html Dear Readers, We are making final adjustments to our new blog which we hope to launch later today. Now a WordPress blog, it has been re-designed and has added functionality, most notably "Live Stage" (for events in real-time). And our... 4536@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ 2007-07-12T09:58:38-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004535.html Brenda Laurel writes: "[...] Rachel has described our interest in how people leave marks on places. We wanted to give people the ability to "mark" the virtual environments, and we arrived at voice as a convenient modality for doing... 4535@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Virtual Reality 2007-07-11T19:34:06-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004534.html Future avatars will be adept at manipulating human response "Researchers from Illinois and Florida are developing a networking system which will create virtual representations of real people to improve our knowledge. They will use artificial intelligence and natural language processing... 4534@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Augmented/Mixed Reality 2007-07-11T17:56:53-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004532.html Rescuing 'Luddite' from the Luddites "[...] A Luddite argument is one in which some broadly useful technology is opposed on the grounds that it will discomfit the people who benefit from the inefficiency the technology destroys. An argument is especially... 4532@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ theme: technology 2007-07-10T19:20:30-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004531.html How Humans Connect No Matter What In 1980, on a November evening in Los Angeles, pedestrians who walked past the glass windows of the Broadway Department Store noticed something strange…they did not see their reflection. There were other people walking... 4531@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Distributed Performance 2007-07-10T18:59:37-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004530.html A return to physical devices The 2nd part of Don Norman’s two part essay on “The Next UI Breakthrough” [RESTRICTED ACCESS] appears in the July/August 2007 edition of ACM Interactions. In it, he describes how physicality is now being re-introduced... 4530@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Performance Tools 2007-07-10T18:34:25-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004529.html Screenings, Conversation and Party The 5th Biennial San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival :: July 14 - 22 :: The San Francisco Sex Worker Festival was established in 1999 to provide a forum for the accomplishments of sex... 4529@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Opportunities + Events + Resources 2007-07-10T16:31:41-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004528.html Glowlab seeks volunteers to work with the fourth annual Conflux Festival, taking place in Williamsburg, Brooklyn from September 13th-16th. We're looking for volunteers in a variety of areas: tech support, audio / video / photo documentation, general installation, sales,... 4528@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Opportunities + Events + Resources 2007-07-10T15:21:31-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004527.html Have your Say, Workshop and more 1001 NIGHTS CAST News: THE THREE-QUARTER MARK; YOUR SAY; MOVING TIMEZONES; LONDON WORKSHOP. THE THREE-QUARTER MARK: Sometime between tonight's performance (#750) and tomorrow's I will pass the three-quarter mark of the project. Since the... 4527@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Distributed Performance 2007-07-10T14:41:33-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004526.html Tents and Flashlights as Interfaces to Virtual Worlds "ABSTRACT: A projection screen in the shape of a tent provides children with a shared immersive experience of a virtual world based on the metaphor of camping. RFID aerials at its entrances... 4526@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Augmented/Mixed Reality 2007-07-09T20:22:46-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004525.html Dual Reality Lab "Dual reality" is the concept of maintaining two worlds, one virtual and one real, that reflect, influence, and merge into each other by means of deeply embedded sensor/actuator networks. Both the real and virtual components of a... 4525@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Augmented/Mixed Reality 2007-07-09T20:13:53-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004524.html Living Through our Avatars Gadgets may help merge virtual reality with real life by Mark Baard, Globe Correspondent, July 9, 2007: That hipster you always see talking into his Bluetooth headset might soon be able to use a similar device... 4524@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Augmented/Mixed Reality 2007-07-09T20:03:03-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004523.html Relational Art "Leah DeVun: You were an early advocate of crowdsourcing in the area of fine art. How did you first get involved in crowdsourcing? Andrea Grover: Part of my interest in this is related to creating non-commodity-based artwork. I... 4523@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ theme: participatory culture 2007-07-09T19:49:22-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004522.html James Dodd and Ubermorgan.com JAMES DODD | SPEAKEASY + UBERMORGEN.COM | WORK 1999-2007 :: 13 JULY - 18 AUGUST :: OPENING THURSDAY 6PM 12 JULY :: EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION, ADELAIDE SOUTH AUSTRALIA :: James Dodd Artist's talk: FRIDAY 17 AUGUST,... 4522@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Opportunities + Events + Resources 2007-07-09T19:22:03-05:00 http://www.turbulence.org/blog/archives/004521.html Documenting Performance-Based Art Evidence of Movement :: July 10-October 7, 2007 :: The Getty Center :: Getty Research Institute Exhibition Gallery. In the collecting and display of art, performance has posed strong challenges to established notions of both the art... 4521@http://www.turbulence.org/blog/ Opportunities + Events + Resources 2007-07-09T14:35:14-05:00