www.dontclick.it is a site both about research into interaction (and clicking) and an example of how one doesn’t need to click to interact. You navigate the Flash site using gestures, it discusses the question of clicking and alternatives, and it tracks mouse movement.
There is a nice moment when it asks you a quick survey which, of course, I clicked on, at which point it reminds you not to click.
This is thanks to Nick.
The design firm Levitated which I blogged before has a collection of open source examples like Text Space which could be easily adapted for text poetics tools.
Many of the examples seem to be source from parts of books he has written for like Flash.MX.3D.Cheats.
KCET Online has an interview with Eddo Stern on Landlord Vigilante that has links to three of his machinema art films, Landlord Vigilante, Vietnam Romance and Waco Resurrection. Landlord is a longer narrated story of a woman taxi driver/landlord. Vietnam takes period music and games recreating the period stitching together vignettes that recall popular culture on the war. Waco defies description, or resurrection. All use game engines to render the story.
I’ve blogged Eddo Stern’s work on art and games before.
Digita@l is an online text art project by Pierre Mertens (who has a chest of a personal site). You click and type text. You can also click on other phrases enlarging them or diminishing them. From the documentation it looks like it was planned as an installation.
The Dictionary of Words in the Wild is an experiment in public textuality that I’m leading. Andrew MacDonald has done the programming and is contributing images (along with others). You can get an account and upload pictures of words or phrases. We have an application programming interface that you can use to then create web applications that call the dictionary. Join, sample, load! We need pictures.
James pointed me to a similar experiment, The Visual Dictionary – a visual exploration of words in the real world. This focuses on single words and has a ranking/rating system. It doesn’t, however, have the API we have. I wonder how we can interoperate? Can such dictionaries be a movement?
Kite Aerial Photography is a photography site by by Scott Haefner that includes 360 degree panoramas taken from kites. Haefner is a professional photographer and site designer whose site also describes the equipment needed to kite aerial photography. The site itself, along with its companion on his Ground-based Photography, is an example of a well designed photo site. Thanks to Shawn for this.
Live coding is coding as performance. Matt alerted me to a Impromptu which is a programming language designed for sound coding performances. There is a gallery of sound performances and code at the site to give an idea of what the live coders might be typing to get what effects.
Live coding would seem to be connected to realtime coding competitions like live coda when the coding challenge is performative and the competition environment can be witnessed as a performance.
Pedagogically I wonder if live coding is more effective than write-compile-run coding. Certain languages like Ruby have live coding environments that let you type commands and see the results immediately. What is different here is the idea of language created for live coding in a performative context.
The Interactive Matter or iMatter project, of which I am one of the co-principal investigators (with Lynn Hughes) has a new web site. The iMatter blog
that we are using to keep track of our meetings has also been moved to Word Press and redesigned.
mandalabrot.net is the home of kiddphunk (Ian Timourian) and his visualizations, experiments and remixes. He has a number of Context Free Design Grammar experiments. Timourian also has a photo kiddphunk site with an doubled way of showing images.
Thanks to Johnny R. for pointing me to this collection of “Explorations of Generative Art, Mathematics, Algorithmic Design and the Beauty of Life / Vol 1”.
net.flag is an interactive work of net art which lets you manipulate a flag for the internet. You can see what other did to the flag and change components. The work gets you thinking about what sort of territory the net is.