http://inthelineofsight.org Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:36:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The SIGGRAPH 2010 juried art gallery showcases work by artists who physically engage technology in their creative process. Beyond the sense of sight, TouchPoint brings together creative works that investigate, celebrate, and critique the polysensory nature of human experience in a digitally enhanced environment. It investigates the permeable membrane of ... http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=187 In the Line of Sight is featured in CyberArts 2009, Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition September 4 - October 4, 2009 OK Center for Contemporary Art, Linz, AUSTRIA http://www.ok-centrum.at/ausstellungen/cyberarts_09/cyberarts_09.html http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=173 See images and video of In the Line of Sight at Elaine L. Jacob Gallery in Detroit. http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=159 The picture above shows one of the flashlights in a microphone stand and clip. The microphone clip still needs to be slightly modified, so that it also allows the flashlight to sit exactly horizontally. This can be done with a little cut near the clip's hinge (see picture below): The microphone ... http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=99 We continued our work with Rebecca and Don on Dec. 6th with a full day video shooting of individual movement sequences for a database of clips that are fed to the flashlight matrix. We are currently working on editing the clips and arranginging them in a database for a generative/emerging ... http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=93 We have started to work with Rebecca Bryant and Don Nichols of past)(modern performance duo on movement studies for the source video portion of In the Line of Sight. The first videos recorded on November 21, 2008 feature improvisations and experiments toward a database of suspicious and ambiguous movements in ... http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=81 These are the first digital sketches of a possible spatial arrangement of the flashlights. This sketch is modeled after the early visualization posted here. The top picture shows a perspective of the curved flashlight matrix, the smaller pictures underneath illustrate close-up, top and side views. More sketches of different spatial organization ... http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=73 Below are some pictures of an early model visualizing a possible arrangement of the flashlights. Side view: and top view (we aimed to arrange the flashlights in a way magnetic field lines behave): http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=57 Recent developments in computer-aided surveillance technology suggest artificial intelligence algorithms that are based less on the comparison of facial features than the analysis of  movement patterns. For example, the department of electrical and computer engineering of the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering has developed a surveillance ... http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=54 This picture shows Francis Picabia’s landmark stage set-design for Relâche (1924), an avant-garde ballet created by the painter and his composer friend, Erik Satie. The idea of putting lights on the stage challenged traditional theatre lighting in which performers on stage are lit and the audience disappears in the dark. ... http://inthelineofsight.org/?p=52