T*Int (Textspace In Not Txtspace) or The Death of the Author · 25 October 06 by Ray Crowley
here is the preface to my most recent assignment paper which utilizes TagCrowd The deliverable envisioned is part interactive audio-visual installation, part Beckett performance with a bit of deconstructionism thrown in for fun.
To Dr. Tapio Takala, Helsinki University of Technology
The subtitle is in homage to Roland Barthes who was commissioned by the artist and writer Patrick Ireland (formerly known as Brian O’Doherty) to write his hugely influential post-structuralist essay “Death of the Author” for ‘Aspen Magazine 5+6’ (1967).
This edition of the magazine also included original contributions by Samuel Beckett, William Burroughs, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Butor, Morton Feldman, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Hans Richter, Robert Rauschenberg, Alain Robbe-Grillet and Susan Sontag.
I engaged many times with the texts, images and sounds of ‘Aspen Magazine 5+6’ over the course of the hot summer of 2006 as there was a retrospective of the work of Patrick Ireland at The Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. I lived a stones throw away from the gallery and had quit my corporate job.
This paper is dedicated to my dear friend, Gearóid Ó Colmáin. Go raibh maith agat mo chara.
T*int · 17 October 06 by Ray Crowley
I am currently working on the design of an augmented reality project. ‘Textspace’ seems to have been used for a couple of things so I am calling this project T*int (Textspace Is Not Textspace).
Essentially this will be toolset which could be deployed for no other purpose than the following artistic goal: to blur to boundaries between the discrete linguistic acts of reading|writing listening|speaking. This defamiliarization of our core linguistic competencies may lead to greater self awareness in the actants.
Here are some early design scribbles:
??The graphic environment would be purely vector text based.3d audio
processing and transmission is critical to the immersive experience. The complex element in this environment is a linguistic processor required to recognize wordstress, intonation, tone (such as sarcasm etc), class etc. Scenarios: two users in an room with 3d sound system (not collocated). Users wear head mounted displays.
This has lead me to carry out an overview of speech recognition parsing engines. Seems my original concept was a slightly ambitious :)
So now the immersive experience will be based on pre-parsed texts (extracts from Beckett, Joyce, a poem by Ginsberg, a newspaper article). Accordingly it will be primary a passive experience with the potential for basic user commands rather than half-duplex near real-time dialogue between two human users. The work continues..
this has provided a good spring board into the depths of langauge processing:
tags: beckett, hci, linguistics, project, vrAlternative Input and Output Devices: Assignment 3: Virtual Reality Applications, a critical assessment. · 29 September 06 by Ray Crowley
Download the short paper in pdf
tags: vr