Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-08-01 Thread Jacqueline sawatzky
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear all, Jacky, can you tell us more about your video and what you actually mean by vector video -- watching your Impression of Bimhuis Dance music improv Lab (http://vimeo.com/99429183), your camera work looks like mine and I

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-31 Thread Sue Hawksley
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Johannes, dear all. On 31 Jul 2014, at 07:12, Johannes Birringer johannes.birrin...@brunel.ac.uk wrote: you may recall that Sue Hawksley mentioned her work on physical practices, her choreographic explorations with dancer Freya

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-31 Thread Jacqueline sawatzky
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Dear Johannes, Thank you, it would be great if we could continue the discussion. I got thinking about my World cup soccer piece 'Intimate Irrelevant Moments' jackysawatzky.net/single_cappuccino/ and the relationship it has to this

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-31 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear all, last day of July has come, and, thanks to Jacky, we are suddenly on to sports and a quite fascinating subject regarding the current era of technological reproducibility of the aura of high performance, or as you argue

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-31 Thread FRITZ Vivian (ART)
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear all something in that probably they are interested dQ14 Dancing in SPACE http://www.unistra.fr/index.php?id=19773tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=14651tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=9311cHash=d2c7212c525a015d20eed874cafb2596

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-30 Thread k.woolford
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Dear Johannes, et. al, Thanks for your response. You’ve picked up on one of the issues I’ve been wrestling with the past few years as a creative practitioner (artist?) functioning within traditional research-led universities. The

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-30 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all: [Kirk schreibt] I’m sorry I’ve not been able to participate in real-time, but I have found inspiration in many of the comments several days after they were written. understandably, and as pointed out at the end of the June

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-26 Thread Wesley Goatley
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Johannes and all, I am always happy for the work to be questioned, I find the most exciting new perspectives can be often be synthesised from the process. Wireless-Fidelity is really grappling with a popular relational distance to

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-26 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks Wes, Personally I find your small gesture resonant in a number of ways, but this is (also) largely a question of sensibilities. The sensible, perceptible, crafting of otherwise hidden data to bring it into my sensorium feels

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-25 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all [Kirk schreibt] it’s interesting to look at it from the perspective of Simon’s question, “does virtual embodiment depend on, augment or replace bodily practices?”. Of course we can claim this piece augments current bodily

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-24 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Thanks Wes for picking up on the prompt! I think your reflection on opaque ownership/ hidden ideologies of physical network structure that can be artistically foregrounded, as in your use of sound, offers the beginnings of an answer to

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-24 Thread k.woolford
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- Hello all, Please accept my apologies for not being able to join this discussion from the beginning of the month. I’ve only been able to follow this week, spurned on by Sally Jane, very graciously forwarding what she’s written about

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-23 Thread Wesley Goatley
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi all, I've been following the fascinating discussion this month with much interest - as Sally Jane pointed out it is quite relevant to my recent work. The piece she mentioned is called Wireless-Fidelity (and can be seen in action here:

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-22 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--Hi Johannes, all We were using the notion of tessellation in the computer graphics sense, to see how we might implement and shape mixed reality boundaries to convey compelling corporeal experience. The example/ experiment we were engaged

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-22 Thread sally jane norman
--empyre- soft-skinned space--sorry, didn't mean to push send yet - winding up below On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 9:06 AM, sally jane norman normansallyj...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Johannes, all We were using the notion of tessellation in the computer graphics sense,

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-22 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all, Hellen, Sally Jane thanks for these responses -- and I hope others will join in and partake --- probably I need to say here, Hellen, that of course I have the utmost respect for your work and long time pioneering performances

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-21 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all John asked about the scope of interactive systems, as we generally refer to such when we build them for a performance or an installation, and yes to that extent the scope is limited to artistic /social interactional ventures of

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-20 Thread Johannes Birringer
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- dear all thanks to these discussions over the past week.. I was in Madrid at the METABODY workshop, a European collaborative performance project, and could not quite participate due to our work- schedule but read the postings by

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-20 Thread John Hopkins
--empyre- soft-skinned space-- What is the scope or meaning of 'interaction' when Quantum suggests that any 'change' anywhere affects all 'things' everywhere simultaneously? jh -- ++ Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-20 Thread Simon Biggs
--empyre- soft-skinned space--What's are 'things' when everything is affected by interaction with everything else? Quantum Physics renders meaning, and things (and therefore relations), fugitive. best Simon On 21 Jul 2014, at 08:01, John Hopkins

Re: [-empyre-] Virtual Embodiment / whose our systems

2014-07-20 Thread Alan Sondheim
--empyre- soft-skinned space--that's not what quantum mechanics says. On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:31 PM, John Hopkins jhopk...@neoscenes.net wrote: --empyre- soft-skinned space-- What is the scope or meaning of 'interaction' when Quantum