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Wrestling in the Cybernetic Snakepit
The Green Room
Oct 2005
The following review is courtesy of John Munger, Director of Research and Information, Dance USA
A century and a quarter ago William Henley wrote, “ I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” He captured a dominant world-view of his time. SuperVision makes the case in an 80-minute multi-media work that Henley’s view no longer applies, whether we like it or not.
It’s hard to be the captain…
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Digital Preservation
Media Lab
Sep 2005
The Have and the Have Nots got posted today on the Hanging Together blog about digital preservation of collections. Smart thoughts and resources in advance of the Museum Computer Network Conference. It’s in Boston this year.
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Alternative Browsing
Media Lab
Sep 2005
The online experience has been changing and growing over the past few years, and the New Media Initiatives team has been working hard to enable the Walker to share information efficiently with its audiences.
Art on Call has been up and running since April; anyone with a cell phone can call 612.374.8200 and hear interviews with artists or receive information about artworks on view. Unfortunately…
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BBC’s chatterbot and SMS reminder
Media Lab
Sep 2005
Mario Menti posted a new instant message prototype on the BBC’s backstage site. It allows you to access the 7 day schedule via an instant messaging client (iChat or MSN Messenger) and get reminders sent to your phone via SMS. I’m not sure how wide of an appeal that would have for our audience but some sort of reminder that is more immediate than email could be useful. Well it would be nice as long…
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New media exhibition, documetation and upgrades.
Media Lab
Sep 2005
Steve Dietz’s YProductions Blog has been busy the past couple weeks. I somehow missed the opening of The Art Formerly Known As New Media at the Walter Phillips Gallery but I was able to experience it in part through these images of the show being installed.
Steve’s documentation of the upgrade for See Banf! reminded me of many of the same issues brought by Seeing Double at the Guggenheim.
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On a bus, On a stage
The Green Room
Sep 2005
The following review is courtesy of Emily Johnson, Director of catalyst dance
I kept thinking about being on a bus. During “ Daylight (for Minneapolis)” by Sarah Michelson on Sunday night, I sat on the constructed risers built on the stage. Sitting there, face forward, with more space and more audience members behind than in front felt conspicuous. Someone near me wondered outloud if the audience members…
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Fallout from the Surrealists
The Green Room
Sep 2005
It continues. The reverberations of Acocella’s New Yorker article way back in September continue to be felt, in New York and here at home (see previous post titled The Literalists). Below are further rebuttals of her piece and alternative readings of the particular works she singled out. The guantlet has been thrown down, and this letter ends in a disturbing, yet necessary challenge.
Tere O’Connor’s…
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Mark your Calendars for a Webcast
Media Lab
Sep 2005
We are webcasting the Julie Snow lecture Thursday night at 7pm (central time) for those of you unable to attend the event in person. This will start a month of more regular programming on the Walker Channel.
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Touch Based Interface
Media Lab
Sep 2005
The As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation demonstration online uses an interaction model very much like that of the Dialog Table. They use a touch pad and no rear projection, so their physical implementation is a bit different but the demonstrations a good set of potential solutions for touch interfaces.