Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-27 Thread Ursula Endlicher
Dear Joumana,

Thanks a lot for your great questions!

In regards to how I contextualize my work to the audience: It actually got
much easier ;-). When i started out bringing the Web into physical space
in my earlier performances more than 10 years ago, I felt a bit resistance
from the audience to think about the protocols of the Web as something to
experience physically. Nowadays it's really all we do every day ;-), well
not totally but,  talking or showing what happens online and making the
hidden processes more transparent has become a wide area of interest.

And your second question: My work is seen both online and physically - it
exists in both places and they intersect each other! So, when I do a live
performance i usually have real-time data or code from the Web drive or
choreograph the piece. When I work on an online performance, I use
real-time data that brings in a physical reference, so for instance I did
an online piece called Light and Dark Networks
(http://lightdarknetworks.ursenal.net) - two online data performances,
which reflected on the morphological parallels in natural networks (such
as mushroom mycelia and spiderwebs) and artificially built networks... The
piece was driven by real-time weather data form NYC and changed how the
piece behaved. So the physical place was constantly brought anew into the
online performance changing how it manifested itself.

I just started looking up your work! Really interesting!

--Ursula


 Dear Ursula
 I have been looking at your work and the concept behind it, it looks
fascinating as you are breaking the boundaries between both bodies the
physical and the web, through the protocole we use everyday. My question
is how do you contextualise it to your audiences, and is your work seen
online as well as physical?
 ;-)
 On 13 Mar 2015, at 00:01, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi dear helen,
 i am very interested in using computer-derived logic as choreography
in
 my works. a few years ago i did a series of live performances where
dancers used movements based on the logic of HTML tags, and currently i am
 working on a new iteration of a live performance series that has
characters featured such as the Finder or the MouseCursor or
HelperApplications, each executing their role based somewhat on what its
 function is in the OS.
 you can look here:
 Website Impersonations (HTML movements) http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/
Far-Flung follows function (OSX characters)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net
 maybe this answers  your question or probably raises more ;-)
 best,
 ursula
 during the CyPosium, joseph delappe talked about his experience when
he
 was performing gandhi in second life intensively every day for i
forget
 how long, he said he would walk down the street  think that he could
click on people  have information about them display over their heads as
in SL.
 i can't think off the top of my head of an example of dance or
performance that choreographs UI gestures but i bet there are some out there.
 h : )
 On 12/03/15 7:36 11PM, Rob Myers wrote:
 On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...
 The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
 not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.
 Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
contemporary dance using this?
 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)
 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
 dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:
 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the
house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise that
doesn't apply to real life.
 Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.
- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-26 Thread Joumana Mourad
Dear Ursula
I have been looking at your work and the concept behind it, it looks 
fascinating as you are breaking the boundaries between both bodies the physical 
and the web, through the protocole we use everyday. My question is how do you 
contextualise it to your audiences, and is your work seen online as well as 
physical?

;-)
On 13 Mar 2015, at 00:01, Ursula Endlicher wrote:

 hi dear helen,
 
 i am very interested in using computer-derived logic as choreography in
 my works. a few years ago i did a series of live performances where
 dancers used movements based on the logic of HTML tags, and currently i am
 working on a new iteration of a live performance series that has
 characters featured such as the Finder or the MouseCursor or
 HelperApplications, each executing their role based somewhat on what its
 function is in the OS.
 
 you can look here:
 Website Impersonations (HTML movements) http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/
 Far-Flung follows function (OSX characters)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net
 
 maybe this answers  your question or probably raises more ;-)
 best,
 ursula
 
 during the CyPosium, joseph delappe talked about his experience when he
 was performing gandhi in second life intensively every day for i forget
 how long, he said he would walk down the street  think that he could
 click on people  have information about them display over their heads
 as in SL.
 
 i can't think off the top of my head of an example of dance or
 performance that choreographs UI gestures but i bet there are some out
 there.
 
 h : )
 
 On 12/03/15 7:36 11PM, Rob Myers wrote:
 On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
 digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
 swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
 page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...
 
 The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
 postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
 not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
 stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.
 
 Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
 hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
 contemporary dance using this?
 
 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)
 
 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
 dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of
 the house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise
 that doesn't apply to real life.
 
 Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.
 
 - Rob.
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-18 Thread Rob Myers
On 16/03/15 09:01 AM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 
 i am really interested working with the idea of 'liveness' in my
 performances,  using an unpredictable choreography for the show that comes
 from an online source such as real-time datasets, live code or HTML that
 is pulled in from a website. my performances are data-enactments. yet
 another reoccurring theme in my works is the idea of having an
 anthropomorphized part of  technology perform it's own 'logic', which
 leads to performances of personified devices and websites, and even the
 Old Internet her/himself.

Network- or data-driven- liveness is an interesting phenomenon. When we
are all so mechanised within the networked economy and within social
media, information flows and code can appear to have the traditionally
human-associated spontaneity and unpredictability that we lack.

Historically in the arts think of the affectless astronauts in 2001,
killed by the one thing on the ship that cares about the mission, its
mainframe computer. Or going back further the ways that human and
automaton speech patterns swap over during the course of the play in
Rossum's Universal Robots.

Technology as rider (in the Voudoun sense, and hello William Gibson
still...) or summoned spirit (add magick to taste) makes explicit and
tractable the phenomena of our lives that are usually invisibly
determined by these systems.

I like this strategy.

- Rob.




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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-16 Thread helen varley jamieson
hi ursula,
thanks for the explanation :) it sounds like quite a complex system!

i think we might have a recording of is this on as we tried to record
everything at the festivals; i'll need to have a hunt for it  send you
a link offlist if i can find it. i think birgit is on netbehaviour also,
so maybe she can comment on it as well.

h : )

On 16/03/15 5:01 54PM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi helen,

 the choreography for 'far-flung follows function' was actually controlled
 by real-time weather data from 30 different (far-flung) cities worldwide,
 which took over the complete theater space: lighting, videos, and sounds
 were changing from one moment to the next. for instance rain in Brisbane
 dimmed the theater while a sunny day in London lit up the space, or wind
 from the north 'blew' the sound track into the south side of the space.
 the performers had an 'open' score to follow, based on each of their
 functionality-roles, but which changed based on the weather.
 the audience, being in the middle of it all, as they could walk freely
 around the set, was exposed to these large-scale media-sculptural and
 performative shifts as well, and more than often fled from sudden action
 and spotlights.
 the performance took place inside a networked computer (the outline of a
 motherboard defined the 'stage'), but the real story, that changed
 everyone's task, came from the outside...

 i am currently working on a next iteration of far-flung (for a show in
 Vienna in November) where the audience will be able to actively change the
 weather in the space - via sensor-based interfaces - basically they will
 make their own weather decisions for the show.

 i am really interested working with the idea of 'liveness' in my
 performances,  using an unpredictable choreography for the show that comes
 from an online source such as real-time datasets, live code or HTML that
 is pulled in from a website. my performances are data-enactments. yet
 another reoccurring theme in my works is the idea of having an
 anthropomorphized part of  technology perform it's own 'logic', which
 leads to performances of personified devices and websites, and even the
 Old Internet her/himself.

 a long reply :-). all that said, it also brings me back to the subject of
 this email - do you dream of computers -  and i often do - and it often
 makes it into my work, which brings in a surreal component, where
 technology actually is behaving in a way we are not completely familiar
 with.

 thanks for pointing out the work by inge hoonte  birgit bachelor, i did
 not know about them or their work. it sounds really interesting! do you
 maybe know if there is some visual material or video about it somewhere? i
 couldn't find any.

 all the best,
 ursula
 -
 www.ursenal.net


 hi ursula,
 thanks for fixing the video, it looks like a great production :) does
 the audience have input to the piece or is it a set choreography? it
 reminded me of a performance at the 11:11:11 UpStage festival, by inge
 hoonte  birgit bachler, where they were exploring the relationship
 between computer  user,  had a webcam inside a computer with
 characters who woke up (or not) to do the actions such as fetching 
 opening files.
 http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Inge_Hoonte/Is_This_On%3f h : )
 On 13/03/15 9:33 24PM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi helen,
 thanks for your reply! yeah i had a feeling that 'html_butoh' might go
 a
 touch beyond your UI discussion (html_butoh rather scrutinizes the
 overall
 structure of what builds a UI) but i am very happy that you did look at
 the piece before and like it! very cool.
 in terms of watching the demo video of 'far-flung follows function':
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video.html
 it should work now (assuming you've tried in chrome before and it
 didn't
 load, this finally made me fix the issue with QT ;-) let me know if you
 still have problems watching it.
 and as much as in 'far-flung follows' function i am playing with the
 idea
 of how the overall operating system and its UI behaves, there is a
 scene
 where two mouse cursors are struggling over the priority of the click -
 check out the scene below. it is though a desktop UI movement moment,
 not hand-held ;-)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video-excerptMICE.html happy
 to talk more...
 thanks, rob and helen for bringing up that question! :-)
 --ursula
 hi ursula,
 thanks for sharing your work :) i have looked before at html_butoh
 before, great project. it's a different approach than rob's question
 about
 contemporary dance using UI gestures - but perhaps more
 interesting in its complexity. i see people using UI gestures as hand
 signals in conversations etc so i'm sure these moves will be or already
 are appearing in contemporary dance
 far-flung follows function looks really interesting too, altho the
 video wouldn't play for me. what plug-in does it need?
 h : )
 On 13/03/15 1:01 48AM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi dear helen,
 i 

Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-16 Thread Ursula Endlicher
hi helen,

the choreography for 'far-flung follows function' was actually controlled
by real-time weather data from 30 different (far-flung) cities worldwide,
which took over the complete theater space: lighting, videos, and sounds
were changing from one moment to the next. for instance rain in Brisbane
dimmed the theater while a sunny day in London lit up the space, or wind
from the north 'blew' the sound track into the south side of the space.
the performers had an 'open' score to follow, based on each of their
functionality-roles, but which changed based on the weather.
the audience, being in the middle of it all, as they could walk freely
around the set, was exposed to these large-scale media-sculptural and
performative shifts as well, and more than often fled from sudden action
and spotlights.
the performance took place inside a networked computer (the outline of a
motherboard defined the 'stage'), but the real story, that changed
everyone's task, came from the outside...

i am currently working on a next iteration of far-flung (for a show in
Vienna in November) where the audience will be able to actively change the
weather in the space - via sensor-based interfaces - basically they will
make their own weather decisions for the show.

i am really interested working with the idea of 'liveness' in my
performances,  using an unpredictable choreography for the show that comes
from an online source such as real-time datasets, live code or HTML that
is pulled in from a website. my performances are data-enactments. yet
another reoccurring theme in my works is the idea of having an
anthropomorphized part of  technology perform it's own 'logic', which
leads to performances of personified devices and websites, and even the
Old Internet her/himself.

a long reply :-). all that said, it also brings me back to the subject of
this email - do you dream of computers -  and i often do - and it often
makes it into my work, which brings in a surreal component, where
technology actually is behaving in a way we are not completely familiar
with.

thanks for pointing out the work by inge hoonte  birgit bachelor, i did
not know about them or their work. it sounds really interesting! do you
maybe know if there is some visual material or video about it somewhere? i
couldn't find any.

all the best,
ursula
-
www.ursenal.net


 hi ursula,
 thanks for fixing the video, it looks like a great production :) does
the audience have input to the piece or is it a set choreography? it
reminded me of a performance at the 11:11:11 UpStage festival, by inge
hoonte  birgit bachler, where they were exploring the relationship
between computer  user,  had a webcam inside a computer with
characters who woke up (or not) to do the actions such as fetching 
opening files.
 http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Inge_Hoonte/Is_This_On%3f h : )
On 13/03/15 9:33 24PM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi helen,
 thanks for your reply! yeah i had a feeling that 'html_butoh' might go
a
 touch beyond your UI discussion (html_butoh rather scrutinizes the
overall
 structure of what builds a UI) but i am very happy that you did look at
the piece before and like it! very cool.
 in terms of watching the demo video of 'far-flung follows function':
http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video.html
 it should work now (assuming you've tried in chrome before and it
didn't
 load, this finally made me fix the issue with QT ;-) let me know if you
still have problems watching it.
 and as much as in 'far-flung follows' function i am playing with the
idea
 of how the overall operating system and its UI behaves, there is a
scene
 where two mouse cursors are struggling over the priority of the click -
check out the scene below. it is though a desktop UI movement moment,
not hand-held ;-)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video-excerptMICE.html happy
to talk more...
 thanks, rob and helen for bringing up that question! :-)
 --ursula
 hi ursula,
 thanks for sharing your work :) i have looked before at html_butoh
 before, great project. it's a different approach than rob's question
about
 contemporary dance using UI gestures - but perhaps more
 interesting in its complexity. i see people using UI gestures as hand
 signals in conversations etc so i'm sure these moves will be or already
are appearing in contemporary dance
 far-flung follows function looks really interesting too, altho the
 video wouldn't play for me. what plug-in does it need?
 h : )
 On 13/03/15 1:01 48AM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi dear helen,
 i am very interested in using computer-derived logic as
choreography
 in
 my works. a few years ago i did a series of live performances where
 dancers used movements based on the logic of HTML tags, and currently i
am
 working on a new iteration of a live performance series that has
 characters featured such as the Finder or the MouseCursor or
HelperApplications, each executing their role based somewhat on what its
 function is in the OS.
 you can 

Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-14 Thread helen varley jamieson
hi ursula,
thanks for fixing the video, it looks like a great production :) does
the audience have input to the piece or is it a set choreography?

it reminded me of a performance at the 11:11:11 UpStage festival, by
inge hoonte  birgit bachler, where they were exploring the relationship
between computer  user,  had a webcam inside a computer with
characters who woke up (or not) to do the actions such as fetching 
opening files.
http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Inge_Hoonte/Is_This_On%3f

h : )

On 13/03/15 9:33 24PM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi helen,

 thanks for your reply! yeah i had a feeling that 'html_butoh' might go a
 touch beyond your UI discussion (html_butoh rather scrutinizes the overall
 structure of what builds a UI) but i am very happy that you did look at
 the piece before and like it! very cool.

 in terms of watching the demo video of 'far-flung follows function': 
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video.html
 it should work now (assuming you've tried in chrome before and it didn't
 load, this finally made me fix the issue with QT ;-) let me know if you
 still have problems watching it.

 and as much as in 'far-flung follows' function i am playing with the idea
 of how the overall operating system and its UI behaves, there is a scene
 where two mouse cursors are struggling over the priority of the click -
 check out the scene below. it is though a desktop UI movement moment,
 not hand-held ;-)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video-excerptMICE.html

 happy to talk more...
 thanks, rob and helen for bringing up that question! :-)

 --ursula

 hi ursula,
 thanks for sharing your work :) i have looked before at html_butoh
 before, great project. it's a different approach than rob's question about
 contemporary dance using UI gestures - but perhaps more
 interesting in its complexity. i see people using UI gestures as hand
 signals in conversations etc so i'm sure these moves will be or already
 are appearing in contemporary dance
 far-flung follows function looks really interesting too, altho the
 video wouldn't play for me. what plug-in does it need?
 h : )
 On 13/03/15 1:01 48AM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi dear helen,
 i am very interested in using computer-derived logic as choreography
 in
 my works. a few years ago i did a series of live performances where
 dancers used movements based on the logic of HTML tags, and currently i am
 working on a new iteration of a live performance series that has
 characters featured such as the Finder or the MouseCursor or
 HelperApplications, each executing their role based somewhat on what its
 function is in the OS.
 you can look here:
 Website Impersonations (HTML movements) http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/
 Far-Flung follows function (OSX characters)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net
 maybe this answers  your question or probably raises more ;-)
 best,
 ursula
 during the CyPosium, joseph delappe talked about his experience when
 he
 was performing gandhi in second life intensively every day for i
 forget
 how long, he said he would walk down the street  think that he could
 click on people  have information about them display over their heads as
 in SL.
 i can't think off the top of my head of an example of dance or
 performance that choreographs UI gestures but i bet there are some out there.
 h : )
 On 12/03/15 7:36 11PM, Rob Myers wrote:
 On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
 digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
 swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
 page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...
 The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
 postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
 not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
 stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.
 Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
 hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
 contemporary dance using this?
 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)
 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
 dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:
 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the
 house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise that
 doesn't apply to real life.
 Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.
 - Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-13 Thread Ursula Endlicher
hi helen,

thanks for your reply! yeah i had a feeling that 'html_butoh' might go a
touch beyond your UI discussion (html_butoh rather scrutinizes the overall
structure of what builds a UI) but i am very happy that you did look at
the piece before and like it! very cool.

in terms of watching the demo video of 'far-flung follows function': 
http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video.html
it should work now (assuming you've tried in chrome before and it didn't
load, this finally made me fix the issue with QT ;-) let me know if you
still have problems watching it.

and as much as in 'far-flung follows' function i am playing with the idea
of how the overall operating system and its UI behaves, there is a scene
where two mouse cursors are struggling over the priority of the click -
check out the scene below. it is though a desktop UI movement moment,
not hand-held ;-)
http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net/video-excerptMICE.html

happy to talk more...
thanks, rob and helen for bringing up that question! :-)

--ursula

 hi ursula,
 thanks for sharing your work :) i have looked before at html_butoh
before, great project. it's a different approach than rob's question about
contemporary dance using UI gestures - but perhaps more
 interesting in its complexity. i see people using UI gestures as hand
signals in conversations etc so i'm sure these moves will be or already
are appearing in contemporary dance
 far-flung follows function looks really interesting too, altho the
video wouldn't play for me. what plug-in does it need?
 h : )
 On 13/03/15 1:01 48AM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi dear helen,
 i am very interested in using computer-derived logic as choreography
in
 my works. a few years ago i did a series of live performances where
dancers used movements based on the logic of HTML tags, and currently i am
 working on a new iteration of a live performance series that has
characters featured such as the Finder or the MouseCursor or
HelperApplications, each executing their role based somewhat on what its
 function is in the OS.
 you can look here:
 Website Impersonations (HTML movements) http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/
Far-Flung follows function (OSX characters)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net
 maybe this answers  your question or probably raises more ;-)
 best,
 ursula
 during the CyPosium, joseph delappe talked about his experience when
he
 was performing gandhi in second life intensively every day for i
forget
 how long, he said he would walk down the street  think that he could
click on people  have information about them display over their heads as
in SL.
 i can't think off the top of my head of an example of dance or
performance that choreographs UI gestures but i bet there are some out there.
 h : )
 On 12/03/15 7:36 11PM, Rob Myers wrote:
 On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...
 The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
 not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.
 Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
contemporary dance using this?
 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)
 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
 dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:
 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the
house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise that
doesn't apply to real life.
 Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-13 Thread helen varley jamieson
hi ursula,
thanks for sharing your work :) i have looked before at html_butoh
before, great project. it's a different approach than rob's question
about contemporary dance using UI gestures - but perhaps more
interesting in its complexity. i see people using UI gestures as hand
signals in conversations etc so i'm sure these moves will be or already
are appearing in contemporary dance

far-flung follows function looks really interesting too, altho the
video wouldn't play for me. what plug-in does it need?

h : )

On 13/03/15 1:01 48AM, Ursula Endlicher wrote:
 hi dear helen,

 i am very interested in using computer-derived logic as choreography in
 my works. a few years ago i did a series of live performances where
 dancers used movements based on the logic of HTML tags, and currently i am
 working on a new iteration of a live performance series that has
 characters featured such as the Finder or the MouseCursor or
 HelperApplications, each executing their role based somewhat on what its
 function is in the OS.

 you can look here:
 Website Impersonations (HTML movements) http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/
 Far-Flung follows function (OSX characters)
 http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net

 maybe this answers  your question or probably raises more ;-)
 best,
 ursula

 during the CyPosium, joseph delappe talked about his experience when he
 was performing gandhi in second life intensively every day for i forget
 how long, he said he would walk down the street  think that he could
 click on people  have information about them display over their heads
 as in SL.

 i can't think off the top of my head of an example of dance or
 performance that choreographs UI gestures but i bet there are some out
 there.

 h : )

 On 12/03/15 7:36 11PM, Rob Myers wrote:
 On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
 digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
 swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
 page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...
 The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
 postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
 not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
 stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.

 Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
 hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
 contemporary dance using this?

 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)

 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
 dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of
 the house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise
 that doesn't apply to real life.
 Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread helen varley jamieson
i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to be about
people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always associated with
travel. one that i used to have for a long time was that i had to catch
a train, but i couldn't fit all of my stuff into my suitcase/backpack. i
would be frantically trying to cram everything into a space that was
physically too small for it all, as the clock ticked mercilessly on, but
i would keep trying until it was actually past the time that the train
would leave (even if i also needed time to get to the station). one of
those inevitable losing battle situations like the sorcerer's apprentice
in fantasia, but without any brooms coming to help. happily i haven't
had this dream for a while :)

but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given that i
generally spend most of my working day in front of one  most of my
communication with the outside world is through the computer. i always
shut down completely  switch off the power when i finish for the day,
so maybe that achieves a mental switching-off as well.

h : )

On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
 edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can totally
 relate to the anxiety aspect

 i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant place
 (usually it's to the small college town where i used to work) and
 never getting there despite hitchhiking and running and etc

 On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com
 mailto:edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:

 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically,
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying
 to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are
 meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or
 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to
 the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen
 which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen
 leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting -
 and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal,
 I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
 through them like a character in a digital game - while in the
 meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk,
 getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make
 them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything
 else to help them.

 It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I
 used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the
 wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings,
 catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting
 further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
 and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late
 and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital
 technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my
 anxiety.

 Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?

 - Edward



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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread ruth catlow
Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of digital 
images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.


It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine.

Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about valuing and 
owning 'accidents' in the work after all.


On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:
i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to be 
about people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always 
associated with travel. one that i used to have for a long time was 
that i had to catch a train, but i couldn't fit all of my stuff into 
my suitcase/backpack. i would be frantically trying to cram everything 
into a space that was physically too small for it all, as the clock 
ticked mercilessly on, but i would keep trying until it was actually 
past the time that the train would leave (even if i also needed time 
to get to the station). one of those inevitable losing battle 
situations like the sorcerer's apprentice in fantasia, but without any 
brooms coming to help. happily i haven't had this dream for a while :)


but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given that i 
generally spend most of my working day in front of one  most of my 
communication with the outside world is through the computer. i always 
shut down completely  switch off the power when i finish for the day, 
so maybe that achieves a mental switching-off as well.


h : )

On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can totally 
relate to the anxiety aspect


i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant place 
(usually it's to the small college town where i used to work) and 
never getting there despite hitchhiking and running and etc


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com 
mailto:edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:


I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically,
about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the
doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying
to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but
instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of
the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out
of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are
meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or
'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to
the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen
which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen
leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting -
and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal,
I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
through them like a character in a digital game - while in the
meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk,
getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make
them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything
else to help them.

It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I
used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the
wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings,
catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting
further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late
and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital
technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my
anxiety.

Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?

- Edward



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[NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Edward
I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically, 
about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the 
doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying 
to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but 
instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of 
the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar, 
highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out 
of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are 
meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or 
'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to 
the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen 
which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen 
leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting - 
and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal, 
I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way 
through them like a character in a digital game - while in the 
meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk, 
getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make 
them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything 
else to help them.

It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I 
used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the 
wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings, 
catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting 
further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late 
and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital 
technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my 
anxiety.

Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?

- Edward
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Antye Greie-Ripatti
yeah,  was thinking the same
maybe they are part of us
so we dont see them in the dream

cyborgs


On Mar 12, 2015, at 10:27 AM, helen varley jamieson 
he...@creative-catalyst.com wrote:

 but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given that i 
 generally spend most of my working day in front of one  most of my 
 communication with the outside world is through the computer. i always shut 
 down completely  switch off the power when i finish for the day, so maybe 
 that achieves a mental switching-off as well.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread ruth catlow

p.s.
Helen your traveling dream is too often my waking reality: (

On 12/03/15 09:45, ruth catlow wrote:
Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of digital 
images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.


It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine.

Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about valuing and 
owning 'accidents' in the work after all.


On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:
i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to be 
about people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always 
associated with travel. one that i used to have for a long time was 
that i had to catch a train, but i couldn't fit all of my stuff into 
my suitcase/backpack. i would be frantically trying to cram 
everything into a space that was physically too small for it all, as 
the clock ticked mercilessly on, but i would keep trying until it was 
actually past the time that the train would leave (even if i also 
needed time to get to the station). one of those inevitable losing 
battle situations like the sorcerer's apprentice in fantasia, but 
without any brooms coming to help. happily i haven't had this dream 
for a while :)


but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given that 
i generally spend most of my working day in front of one  most of my 
communication with the outside world is through the computer. i 
always shut down completely  switch off the power when i finish for 
the day, so maybe that achieves a mental switching-off as well.


h : )

On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can totally 
relate to the anxiety aspect


i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant place 
(usually it's to the small college town where i used to work) and 
never getting there despite hitchhiking and running and etc


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com 
mailto:edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:


I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically,
about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the
doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying
to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but
instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of
the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out
of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are
meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or
'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to
the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen
which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen
leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting -
and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal,
I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
through them like a character in a digital game - while in the
meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk,
getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make
them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything
else to help them.

It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I
used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the
wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings,
catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting
further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late
and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital
technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my
anxiety.

Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?

- Edward



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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread dave miller
Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the house, my
immediate thought is undo and then I realise that doesn't apply to real
life.

On 12 March 2015 at 09:45, ruth catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote:

  p.s.
 Helen your traveling dream is too often my waking reality: (


 On 12/03/15 09:45, ruth catlow wrote:

 Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of digital
 images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.

 It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine.

 Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about valuing and
 owning 'accidents' in the work after all.

 On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:

 i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to be about
 people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always associated with
 travel. one that i used to have for a long time was that i had to catch a
 train, but i couldn't fit all of my stuff into my suitcase/backpack. i
 would be frantically trying to cram everything into a space that was
 physically too small for it all, as the clock ticked mercilessly on, but i
 would keep trying until it was actually past the time that the train would
 leave (even if i also needed time to get to the station). one of those
 inevitable losing battle situations like the sorcerer's apprentice in
 fantasia, but without any brooms coming to help. happily i haven't had this
 dream for a while :)

 but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given that i
 generally spend most of my working day in front of one  most of my
 communication with the outside world is through the computer. i always shut
 down completely  switch off the power when i finish for the day, so maybe
 that achieves a mental switching-off as well.

 h : )

 On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:

 edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can totally relate
 to the anxiety aspect

  i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant place
 (usually it's to the small college town where i used to work) and never
 getting there despite hitchhiking and running and etc

 On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:

 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically,
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying
 to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are
 meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or
 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to
 the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen
 which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen
 leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting -
 and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal,
 I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
 through them like a character in a digital game - while in the
 meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk,
 getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make
 them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything
 else to help them.

 It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I
 used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the
 wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings,
 catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting
 further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
 and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late
 and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital
 technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my
 anxiety.

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 - Edward



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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread info
I just recently dreamt that i was sitting on a train (or street car) and
that i pushed the button above my seat to turn the light on which
Immediately read my biometric data  which paid for my seat. it also told
me - somehow on a mini display - that i paid too little, just alike 6 % of
my trip.

i like dreaming about computers - and art works for that matter - it
usually brings up strange new worlds ;-)
--ursula

 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of digital
 cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to swipe the
 pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy page-turning than
 really believing it will swipe ...

 h : )

 ps - ruth: the answer to the real-life dilemma is to get a bigger
 suitcase! ;)

 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)

 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com
 mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:

 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the
 house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise that doesn't
 apply to real life.

 On 12 March 2015 at 09:45, ruth catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org
 mailto:ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote:

 p.s.
 Helen your traveling dream is too often my waking reality: (


 On 12/03/15 09:45, ruth catlow wrote:
 Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of
 digital images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.

 It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine.

 Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about
 valuing and owning 'accidents' in the work after all.

 On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to
 be about people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always
 associated with travel. one that i used to have for a long time
 was that i had to catch a train, but i couldn't fit all of my
 stuff into my suitcase/backpack. i would be frantically trying
 to cram everything into a space that was physically too small
 for it all, as the clock ticked mercilessly on, but i would
 keep trying until it was actually past the time that the train
 would leave (even if i also needed time to get to the station).
 one of those inevitable losing battle situations like the
 sorcerer's apprentice in fantasia, but without any brooms
 coming to help. happily i haven't had this dream for a while :)

 but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given
 that i generally spend most of my working day in front of one 
 most of my communication with the outside world is through the
 computer. i always shut down completely  switch off the power
 when i finish for the day, so maybe that achieves a mental
 switching-off as well.

 h : )

 On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
 edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can
 totally relate to the anxiety aspect

 i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant
 place (usually it's to the small college town where i used to
 work) and never getting there despite hitchhiking and running
 and etc

 On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward
 edw...@edwardpicot.com mailto:edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:

 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers -
 specifically,
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working
 at the
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm
 trying
 to do something simple like make an appointment for
 someone, but
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar
 parts of
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like
 landscapes out
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These
 are
 meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical
 system, or
 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you
 get to
 the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a
 screen
 which has actually got some useful functionality, but each
 screen
 leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and
 distracting -
 and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer
 terminal,
 I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
 through them like a character in a digital game - while in
 the
 meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front
 desk,
 getting more and more impatient because I can't book them
 in, make
 them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do
 anything
 else to help them.

 It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at
 

Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Michael Szpakowski
Don't dream about computers. Do daydream, often, about the delicious boredom ( 
which so often gave rise to really *useful* thought) that used to be part of my 
life, especially as a teenager, long before *devices*... I love the technology 
in lots of ways. It's altered my life to the good, but sometimes
m.
  From: i...@ursenal.net i...@ursenal.net
 To: he...@creative-catalyst.com; NetBehaviour for networked distributed 
creativity netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org 
 Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 4:06 PM
 Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?
   
I just recently dreamt that i was sitting on a train (or street car) and
that i pushed the button above my seat to turn the light on which
Immediately read my biometric data  which paid for my seat. it also told
me - somehow on a mini display - that i paid too little, just alike 6 % of
my trip.

i like dreaming about computers - and art works for that matter - it
usually brings up strange new worlds ;-)
--ursula

 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of digital
 cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to swipe the
 pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy page-turning than
 really believing it will swipe ...

 h : )

 ps - ruth: the answer to the real-life dilemma is to get a bigger
 suitcase! ;)

 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)

 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com
 mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:

 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the
 house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise that doesn't
 apply to real life.

 On 12 March 2015 at 09:45, ruth catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org
 mailto:ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote:

    p.s.
    Helen your traveling dream is too often my waking reality: (


    On 12/03/15 09:45, ruth catlow wrote:
    Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of
    digital images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.

    It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine.

    Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about
    valuing and owning 'accidents' in the work after all.

    On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:
    i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to
    be about people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always
    associated with travel. one that i used to have for a long time
    was that i had to catch a train, but i couldn't fit all of my
    stuff into my suitcase/backpack. i would be frantically trying
    to cram everything into a space that was physically too small
    for it all, as the clock ticked mercilessly on, but i would
    keep trying until it was actually past the time that the train
    would leave (even if i also needed time to get to the station).
    one of those inevitable losing battle situations like the
    sorcerer's apprentice in fantasia, but without any brooms
    coming to help. happily i haven't had this dream for a while :)

    but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given
    that i generally spend most of my working day in front of one 
    most of my communication with the outside world is through the
    computer. i always shut down completely  switch off the power
    when i finish for the day, so maybe that achieves a mental
    switching-off as well.

    h : )

    On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
    edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can
    totally relate to the anxiety aspect

    i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant
    place (usually it's to the small college town where i used to
    work) and never getting there despite hitchhiking and running
    and etc

    On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward
    edw...@edwardpicot.com mailto:edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:

        I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers -
        specifically,
        about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working
        at the
        doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm
        trying
        to do something simple like make an appointment for
        someone, but
        instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar
        parts of
        the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
        highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like
        landscapes out
        of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These
 are
        meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical
        system, or
        'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you
        get to
        the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a
 screen
        which has actually got some useful functionality, but each
        screen
        leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and
        distracting -
        and I'm not just looking

Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread BishopZ
when I was studying Photoshop intently, first learning it, after many
long nights of 'tips and tricks' tutorials, I had an experience unlike
anything else. I was still awake, but had fallen into a trance-like
state of intense focus, still using the program. When I snapped out of
it and reflected back, I realized that during that time, my body had
completely disappeared. I could feel the mouse cursor; it had become a
complete prosthetic. I felt like a 'transparent eyeball' absorbing the
nature of photoshop, acting with limbs that only appeared on-screen.

it was during that time and for a few years afterwards, I started to
have dreams of using computers, always using photoshop. usually
frustrated about this or that feature not working properly (anxiety).
I always guessed that the dreams were a byproduct of using the same
program for 10-12 hours a day for extended stints of time.

Bz


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:06 AM,  i...@ursenal.net wrote:
 I just recently dreamt that i was sitting on a train (or street car) and
 that i pushed the button above my seat to turn the light on which
 Immediately read my biometric data  which paid for my seat. it also told
 me - somehow on a mini display - that i paid too little, just alike 6 % of
 my trip.

 i like dreaming about computers - and art works for that matter - it
 usually brings up strange new worlds ;-)
 --ursula

 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of digital
 cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to swipe the
 pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy page-turning than
 really believing it will swipe ...

 h : )

 ps - ruth: the answer to the real-life dilemma is to get a bigger
 suitcase! ;)

 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)

 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com
 mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:

 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the
 house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise that doesn't
 apply to real life.

 On 12 March 2015 at 09:45, ruth catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org
 mailto:ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote:

 p.s.
 Helen your traveling dream is too often my waking reality: (


 On 12/03/15 09:45, ruth catlow wrote:
 Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of
 digital images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.

 It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine.

 Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about
 valuing and owning 'accidents' in the work after all.

 On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to
 be about people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always
 associated with travel. one that i used to have for a long time
 was that i had to catch a train, but i couldn't fit all of my
 stuff into my suitcase/backpack. i would be frantically trying
 to cram everything into a space that was physically too small
 for it all, as the clock ticked mercilessly on, but i would
 keep trying until it was actually past the time that the train
 would leave (even if i also needed time to get to the station).
 one of those inevitable losing battle situations like the
 sorcerer's apprentice in fantasia, but without any brooms
 coming to help. happily i haven't had this dream for a while :)

 but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given
 that i generally spend most of my working day in front of one 
 most of my communication with the outside world is through the
 computer. i always shut down completely  switch off the power
 when i finish for the day, so maybe that achieves a mental
 switching-off as well.

 h : )

 On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
 edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can
 totally relate to the anxiety aspect

 i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant
 place (usually it's to the small college town where i used to
 work) and never getting there despite hitchhiking and running
 and etc

 On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward
 edw...@edwardpicot.com mailto:edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:

 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers -
 specifically,
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working
 at the
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm
 trying
 to do something simple like make an appointment for
 someone, but
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar
 parts of
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like
 landscapes out
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These
 are
   

Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Rob Myers
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On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
 digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
 swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
 page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...

The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.

Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
contemporary dance using this?

 On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
 me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)
 
 On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
 dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of
 the house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise
 that doesn't apply to real life.

Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.

- - Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Rob Myers
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On 12/03/15 09:35 AM, BishopZ wrote:
 
 it was during that time and for a few years afterwards, I started
 to have dreams of using computers, always using photoshop. usually 
 frustrated about this or that feature not working properly
 (anxiety). I always guessed that the dreams were a byproduct of
 using the same program for 10-12 hours a day for extended stints of
 time.

I currently dream of infinite scrolling on websites/mobile apps.

I'm now worried that this may be for similar reasons.

- - Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Ursula Endlicher
hi dear helen,

i am very interested in using computer-derived logic as choreography in
my works. a few years ago i did a series of live performances where
dancers used movements based on the logic of HTML tags, and currently i am
working on a new iteration of a live performance series that has
characters featured such as the Finder or the MouseCursor or
HelperApplications, each executing their role based somewhat on what its
function is in the OS.

you can look here:
Website Impersonations (HTML movements) http://www.ursenal.net/wi_ttmv/
Far-Flung follows function (OSX characters)
http://farflungfollowsfunction.ursenal.net

maybe this answers  your question or probably raises more ;-)
best,
ursula

 during the CyPosium, joseph delappe talked about his experience when he
 was performing gandhi in second life intensively every day for i forget
 how long, he said he would walk down the street  think that he could
 click on people  have information about them display over their heads
 as in SL.

 i can't think off the top of my head of an example of dance or
 performance that choreographs UI gestures but i bet there are some out
 there.

 h : )

 On 12/03/15 7:36 11PM, Rob Myers wrote:
 On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
  :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
  digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
  swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
  page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...

 The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
 postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
 not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
 stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.

 Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
 hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
 contemporary dance using this?

  On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
  me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)
 
  On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
  dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of
  the house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise
  that doesn't apply to real life.

 Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.

 - Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread helen varley jamieson
during the CyPosium, joseph delappe talked about his experience when he
was performing gandhi in second life intensively every day for i forget
how long, he said he would walk down the street  think that he could
click on people  have information about them display over their heads
as in SL.

i can't think off the top of my head of an example of dance or
performance that choreographs UI gestures but i bet there are some out
there.

h : )

On 12/03/15 7:36 11PM, Rob Myers wrote:
 On 12/03/15 05:38 AM, helen varley jamieson wrote:
  :D or little kids trying to swipe the screens on the back of
  digital cameras when viewing photos - i've even seen kids trying to
  swipe the pages of a book, but maybe that's more just lazy
  page-turning than really believing it will swipe ...

 The body language of mobile and tablet use is fascinating, the
 postures and hand gestures. Faces lost in contemplation illuminated by
 not God or the truth but by commercially mediated sociality. Hands
 stroking, pulling, making shadowplay ducks.

 Everyone (if you like ;-) ) try making gesture UI movements with your
 hands in the air in front of you and see how they look. Is there any
 contemporary dance using this?

  On 12/03/15 10:56 26AM, Antye Greie-Ripatti wrote:
  me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)
 
  On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller
  dave.miller...@gmail.com mailto:dave.miller...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of
  the house, my immediate thought is undo and then I realise
  that doesn't apply to real life.

 Apparently obsessive Myst players used to try to click on things irl.

 - Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Antye Greie-Ripatti
me finger-zooming into books lately (eye roll)

On Mar 12, 2015, at 11:50 AM, dave miller dave.miller...@gmail.com wrote:

 Often when I do something really bad, like lock myself out of the house, my 
 immediate thought is undo and then I realise that doesn't apply to real 
 life.
 
 On 12 March 2015 at 09:45, ruth catlow ruth.cat...@furtherfield.org wrote:
 p.s. 
 Helen your traveling dream is too often my waking reality: (
 
 
 On 12/03/15 09:45, ruth catlow wrote:
 Once after a long day of working too many hours on a series of digital 
 images, I dreamed that I could undo my actions.
 
 It wasn't as fun or as satisfying as you might imagine. 
 
 Maybe there is something to the art lecturer cliché about valuing and owning 
 'accidents' in the work after all.
 
 On 12/03/15 08:27, helen varley jamieson wrote:
 i don't think i dream about computers at all; my dreams tend to be about 
 people  places,  my anxiety dreams are nearly always associated with 
 travel. one that i used to have for a long time was that i had to catch a 
 train, but i couldn't fit all of my stuff into my suitcase/backpack. i 
 would be frantically trying to cram everything into a space that was 
 physically too small for it all, as the clock ticked mercilessly on, but i 
 would keep trying until it was actually past the time that the train would 
 leave (even if i also needed time to get to the station). one of those 
 inevitable losing battle situations like the sorcerer's apprentice in 
 fantasia, but without any brooms coming to help. happily i haven't had this 
 dream for a while :)
 
 but it is interesting that i don't dream about computers, given that i 
 generally spend most of my working day in front of one  most of my 
 communication with the outside world is through the computer. i always shut 
 down completely  switch off the power when i finish for the day, so maybe 
 that achieves a mental switching-off as well.
 
 h : )
 
 On 11/03/15 11:29 29PM, Mab MacMoragh wrote:
 edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can totally relate 
 to the anxiety aspect
 
 i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant place (usually 
 it's to the small college town where i used to work) and never getting 
 there despite hitchhiking and running and etc
 
 On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:
 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically,
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying
 to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are
 meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or
 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to
 the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen
 which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen
 leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting -
 and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal,
 I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
 through them like a character in a digital game - while in the
 meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk,
 getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make
 them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything
 else to help them.
 
 It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I
 used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the
 wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings,
 catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting
 further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
 and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late
 and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital
 technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my
 anxiety.
 
 Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?
 
 - Edward
 
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-12 Thread Alan Sondheim



I never dream of computers; I do dream of catastrophe, personal violence, 
etc. and end up waking in sweats and tears. If anything, the dreams are 
anti-technological; I spend so much time in front of computers and 
associated machinery during the day, that the night opens up to other 
things. I think depression relates to an empathy with suffering; if I see 
something horrific from PETA (we're members), that tends to come back to 
haunt me. Azure protects me against the worst of this; it can stun me into 
inactivity during the day. On the other hand, recently there have been 
dreams of conversations and dreams that lead to writing, and these are 
more peaceful. Nothing of computers, though, and nothing of music and 
musical instruments; only once did I hear myself improvising.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-11 Thread dave miller
Hi edward
Great dream and also a wonderful subject.
I used to suffer from desktop publishing nightmares. I used to work for a
small company that made a regular magazine using Pagemaker on an early
macintosh plus with a tiny screen. The screen had to refresh all the time
and the process was incredibly tedious and difficult, pulling down handles
on text boxes and reflowing text. All this with someone standing behind me
usually as I think people enjoyed watching me do it. I could barely see by
the end of the day and the experience would often return as a regular
nightmare. Sometimes I would make a whole magazine in my sleep!
DTP. Desk Top Punishment.
On 11 Mar 2015 19:33, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:

 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically,
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying
 to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are
 meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or
 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to
 the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen
 which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen
 leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting -
 and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal,
 I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
 through them like a character in a digital game - while in the
 meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk,
 getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make
 them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything
 else to help them.

 It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I
 used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the
 wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings,
 catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting
 further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
 and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late
 and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital
 technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my
 anxiety.

 Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?

 - Edward
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-11 Thread AG Forever
Sounds super! Can u enjoy these dreams at all ?
I wish I had that dreams, not anxiety of course...
Thanks for sharing

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 On 11 Mar, 2015, at 21:33, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:
 
 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically, 
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the 
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying 
 to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but 
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of 
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar, 
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out 
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are 
 meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or 
 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to 
 the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen 
 which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen 
 leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting - 
 and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal, 
 I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way 
 through them like a character in a digital game - while in the 
 meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk, 
 getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make 
 them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything 
 else to help them.
 
 It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I 
 used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the 
 wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings, 
 catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting 
 further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
 and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late 
 and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital 
 technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my 
 anxiety.
 
 Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?
 
 - Edward
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Re: [NetBehaviour] NetArtizens: Do you dream of computers?

2015-03-11 Thread Mab MacMoragh
edward i enjoyed reading about your computer dream and can totally relate
to the anxiety aspect

i have a recurring anxiety dream about walking to a distant place (usually
it's to the small college town where i used to work) and never getting
there despite hitchhiking and running and etc

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Edward edw...@edwardpicot.com wrote:

 I have a recurring anxiety dream about computers - specifically,
 about the clinical system I use every day when I'm working at the
 doctor's surgery where I earn my living. In the dream, I'm trying
 to do something simple like make an appointment for someone, but
 instead of the appointments screen or any of the familiar parts of
 the clinical system, I'm presented with lots of peculiar,
 highly-coloured and rather surreal graphics, like landscapes out
 of Super Mario brothers or some other digital game. These are
 meant to be either alternative layouts for the clinical system, or
 'splash screens' you see when you first log on, before you get to
 the system proper. I keep trying to get past them to a screen
 which has actually got some useful functionality, but each screen
 leads to another one which is yet more bizarre and distracting -
 and I'm not just looking at these screens on a computer terminal,
 I'm kind of getting lost inside them, trying to play my way
 through them like a character in a digital game - while in the
 meantime, patients are queueing up at the surgery front desk,
 getting more and more impatient because I can't book them in, make
 them appointments, print prescriptions for them or do anything
 else to help them.

 It's a classic anxiety dream, of course. When I was at school I
 used to dream of getting on the wrong bus, getting off at the
 wrong stop, trying to walk it but taking all the wrong turnings,
 catching another bus which took me in the wrong direction, getting
 further and further away from where I was supposed to be,
 and more and more conscious of the fact that I was already late
 and missing lessons. Nowadays my dreams use computers and digital
 technology instead of bus-rides and twisty roads to flesh out my
 anxiety.

 Does anybody else dream about computers, anxiously or otherwise?

 - Edward

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