Writing by Jeremy on Friday, 1 of August , 2008 at 7:07 pm
This screenshot from Glocal’s Motion Sequence Application (MSA) is an anonymous portrait of a tree in Holland Park – one of the many trees that were being showcased at Surrey’s Fusion Festival!
Hello Glocal Blog Readers!
This Summer season has become an extremely prolific one for the info-crew at Glocal…
In addition to the Canada Day festivities, the Glocal project was also represented by the Fusion Festival in Surrey (July 19-20, 2008), another Cultural Capitals of Canada initiative.
Computers in the tent were used to allow visitors to get creative with a web-cam. An additional computer provided access to the glocal website and blog so that visitors could see first hand how to download the software applications and contribute to the project.
Here are some more pictures from this culturally diverse summer blockbuster event…
(Read more…)
Category: Exhibition, Hardware, Local, Toolkits, Uncategorized
Writing by Jeremy on Tuesday, 29 of July , 2008 at 3:57 pm
The above image is an example of a participants’ response to exploring colour and motion using the Motion Sequence Application (MSA).
Hello Glocal Blog Readers!
Glocal just held a week-long intensive Digital Summer Camp that was hosted by both Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology and the Surrey Art Gallery.
22 Youth from Surrey were selected to take part in this free digital summer camp from July 14-18, 2008. (Read more…)
Category: Summer Camp
Writing by Jer on Monday, 31 of March , 2008 at 1:58 pm
Throughout the course of the Glocal project, we will be developing and distributing toolkits which will allow artists of all levels to contribute to our content base. Software, hardware, and conceptual toolkits will be available on our website for download as they are completed.
The first software toolkit facilitates creation of the motion sequence grids that we have been posting here and in our Flickr and Facebook groups. Built in Processing, the Motion Sequence Toolkit creates grids from either live webcam input, or from pre-recorded video. In both cases, the application offers a different perspective on motion by separating it into still frames. Here is screenshot of the interface, in standard grid mode:
Here, we are seeing a motion history of the last 6 seconds of motion, displayed on screen as a grid (I’m holding a drinking glass in front of the webcam). You’ll notice along the top of the screen that there are some controls (in blue). Using this control bar, we can change frame rate, frame size, and frame arrangement. We can make the frames very large:
Or, very small:
We can achieve a slit-scan effect by reducing the rows to 1:
Or by reducing the columns to 1:
This toolkit gives us a variety of ways to look at motion from new perspectives. Of particular interest is the ability to take pre-recorded video and render it in different forms.
The Motion Sequence Toolkit will be available for public download shortly. In the meantime, if you are an artist or an educator who would like to get ahold of a beta version, please contact our project coordinator and we’ll help you out as best as we can.
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Writing by Sylvia on Friday, 28 of March , 2008 at 1:21 pm
What Do I look like….when I’d really rather be sleeping?
Project work by David Timlin
[Click on the work to see David's portraits from midnight to 9am]
In responding to the Glocal project, David elected to employ time lapse photography. While time lapse photography is traditionally used to track and monitor environmental changes, David decided to use himself as the subject in this work.
In What Do I look like….when I’d really rather be sleeping? - the title alludes to the events that have been documented. In this artwork David mounted his camera off his bedpost and then set his alarm clock throughout the night to wake him hour on the hour. The documents reveal the juxtaposition of the subject being barely awake and responsive to the camera. Much like Vito Acconci’s works of the 1970s where his performances reflected on the representation and the act of being psychologically observed, David extends these concepts to how the body can become a material object, gazed and out of context in both time and place.
Category: Uncategorized
Writing by Sylvia on Sunday, 9 of March , 2008 at 1:27 am
A key objective of delivering the Glocal project includes changing how users work and respond to digital technologies.
In a world where digital recording devices dominate, shooting at eye level seems to be the most natural. What if this was altered? How would these other alternative views appear?
In this project we look at changing perspectives (ie. by literally placing cameras and recorders at unusual heights or anchored positions) and how can we capture the everyday in unordinary ways.
As an artist assisting in the delivery of the Glocal project – I am interested in addressing the ‘HOW’ with the support and suggestions of the public.
Recently I partnered with a series of UK artists to see what would happen when the digital camera was placed off tripod and away from the rational eye.
Below are the first observational works created by artist Sarah Gale.
Pictures were devised by placing a camera on a timer under a plastic food tray. The results – meal time like no one has ever envisioned!
Category: Uncategorized
Writing by Jeremy on Thursday, 21 of February , 2008 at 7:20 pm
Self-portrait of Jeremy Owen Turner (Project Coordinator – GLOCAL – Surrey Art Gallery) with the other booth participants from the Surrey Art Gallery. For this photo, the Coordinator used the Glocal prototype interface.
Hello GLOCAL Project blog-readers,
As Coordinator, I have finally taken some time to reflect on my Winterfest information presentation on behalf of the Surrey Art Gallery and the Cultural Capitals of Canada Initiative. This mass-media event took place at Central City (Surrey Central) – more specifically, in the foyer of Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology (SIAT).
As some of you might know, Surrey has been declared Canada’s official Cultural Capital of 2008 so this was a landmark opportunity to showcase the latest in interactive digital media art and technology.
The GLOCAL presentation was a huge success. Many onlookers from every demographic description felt compelled to play with this interactive screen… Some kids had even begged their parents to return to my booth to explore the video processing application developed by the GLOCAL team and many people wanted to learn more so I managed to hand out most of the official GLOCAL brochures.
I believe the reason why the GLOCAL booth in particular had such a steady stream of activity throughout the day was due primarily to the fact that this interactive screen directly engaged the audience in realtime. The webcam was also mobile enough for each attendee to casually play with the viewing angles and by doing so, a unique video-mosaic was created straight out of their own imagination.
I think that most people who visited the GLOCAL booth felt they were directly interpreting the shifting sights of the Winterfest as if they were one of the performers being featured at the event.
As a result of this booth presentation, I think there will be sufficient interest from schools and individuals from the Surrey community to engage in both short-term and long-term workshops with the artists that comprise the GLOCAL Team.
I will have more photos from this event in a future blog posting but for now, here are some officially released photos:
Here is a portrait of Dan Nielsen (Project Manager – Surrey 2008 – Cultural Capital of Canada) using the GLOCAL prototype interface.
Photo by Rick Chapman. Here is what the official Winterfest sign looked like…
Photo by Rick Chapman. The GLOCAL Coordinator is pictured on the far right in front of his FUSION information booth. He is wearing a white t-shirt and standing not too far away from an over-saturated white TV screen that is suspended from the ceiling. The computer screen used to display GLOCAL’s prototype software application looked really nice in person but the photographer had used a flash so the GLOCAL screen is not very visible in this picture.
Photo by Rick Chapman. Inside that illuminated window was where all our information booths were so you could imagine how powerful and loud the fireworks were since they were practically exploding right next to the building complex’s facade. When the explosions first went off, everyone thought someone had detonated a bomb.
Photo by Rick Chapman.Here is another view of the fireworks display that occurred right next to the entrance to the SIAT building.
Photo by Rick Chapman. Here is one last view of the fireworks for Winterfest which by the way, had the keyword FUSION as its theme for this year….
Category: Local
