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THEWORLDSLONGESTCOLLABORATIVESENTENCE-RESEARCHCRITIQUE
Davis was interested in television’s ability to connect people across distance; my students always laugh uncomfortably at the 70s touchy-feeliness of his video work.
With that quote from the article by Michael Connor, it helps put works such as Douglas Davis, The Last Nine Minutes (1977), in perspective of what exactly is going on.
With the intent being to create intimacy, I Read more →
[Internet Art & Culture] Research Critique - The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence
The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence by Douglas Davis
Interactive websites have always been my interest and I would say Douglas Davis’ Collaborative Sentence live website was the most simplest form of interaction between people over the World Wide Web. Nowadays, web designers and developers put so much thought into building a website which has outstanding interactive elements accompanied by beautiful graphics. However, Read more →
Research Critique: The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence
The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence is a classic internet art was commissioned by Lehman College Art Gallery in 1994 where people around the world can participate or contribute to the never ending sentence. It is an ongoing textual and graphic online performance. It was previously run using HTML and CGI where they had problem configuring the Korean characters, Hangul which Read more →
Cross Streaming Technical Test (With Bao)
Since the last time we cross streamed during the lesson:
https://www.facebook.com/pod.ozf/videos/10155137795388471/
Video from my phone which I am unable to embed in this post, not sure why but all the setting are the same, >>CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO<<
we noticed that there were two major flaws in the cross streaming system, During that lesson, we used Bao’s Windows Laptop and my Read more →
Research Critique: The World's First Collaborative Sentence
Digital Conservation of the Davis’s Digital Conversation
After reading the article on restoring Davis’s Collaborative Sentence, I gained a better appreciation of Davis’s work. My thoughts are that technology changes so quickly and frequently (Yes, you Apple and your constant iOS updates), that works can be easily obsolete. Just like how the Mona Lisa in the Louvre needs constant maintenance Read more →
Research Critique: The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence by Douglas Davis
“I DID NOT FEEL SEPARATED I FELT VERY CLOSE EVEN THOUGH WE WERE THOUSANDS OF MILES APART AND I WAS SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE HERE I FELT CLOSE . . . ”
The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence was a project by Douglas Davis in 1840. Participants of the project could take part by continuing the text that has been written by others. Read more →
Research Critique : The World's Longest Collaborative Sentence
“The World’s Longest Collaborative Sentence” by Douglas Davis is a project he began in 1994 at the art gallery at Lehman College, where he invited people to contribute in the forms of words, photographs, video, graphics, WWW links, and sound via the Internet, the World Wide Web, email, regular mail, and personal visit.
The huge difference between broadcast TV and the Read more →
Crossstreammmbroadcasttt - Trial Run
For our pre-class trial run, Me and Su Hwee teamed up for this Safari Themed Cross-stream idea!
The general idea is for us to do a cross stream where one side goes out into the school like David Attenborough/(Insert Favourite Nature Presenter)
A few of the initial concepts generated were for eg. a news report, much like the evening news. Having the camera Read more →
Cross Stream Broadcast Test (with Zifeng A.K.A Wind)
Facebook Live Link : Here
Zifeng(Wind) and I decided to create a stack of layers ranging from normal to top the top drunk level. The level of drunkenness will increase when the first person opens a door and walk through it. We hope to create an environment whereby we audience could experience the drunkenness of the visuals and through the Read more →
Cross Stream Broadcast Technical Test
Idealisation
Due to personal reason I did not attend the last lesson which the first trail of streaming. This makes me more nervous on what I suppose to look out for during this cross stream but luckily it is a technical test! After brainstorming with Makoto, we came up a few ideas such as attaching our phone at different angle and Read more →