“iChannel is a collaborative web series about a young man who has his life magically taken over by an audience… YOU. Our goal is a compelling original series where the audience can interact with the creators and the show’s characters in unique, unprecedented ways.”
What I really like about this interactive web-series is it’s ironic and humorous tone. In the first episodes the protagonist is really scared by the audience influencing his life but later on he even asked them for advice.
Visit a big exhibition during the day, watch some crazy art performances, and then go to a big concert - how does that sound to you? Last Saturday, me and some friends and colleagues visited the STRP festival in Eindhoven. The organisation of the festival describe it the following way: “STRP is unique because it presents visual arts and music ranking alongside film, games, and robots”. So a promising concept! And yes, despite the messy built-up of the exhibition, the dominance of rather older installation works (actually, some of them were developed in the Netherlands and so have been shown plenty of times before), there were some gems! Overall there was a great atmosphere, and since I guess a big part of the public came for the concerts of Roisin Murphy, Trentemoeller, Goose, 2many djs, and so on and so forth, the exhibition did give a lot of people who are normally not involved with media art a chance to experience it! So in that way it seems successful - they had over 18.000 visitors in 3 days!
During the New Cultural Networks Conference in Amsterdam (Friday 2nd of November, organized by Stifo@Sandberg), PIPS:lab presented diespace , the first internet community for people who have passed away!
PIPS:lab are a group of artists from Amsterdam based Sandberg Institute, and what they do is a mixture of new media art projects, theater, performance, (live!) music,…well, it’s really an experience and it really stirred up the audience of the conference!
“The video sets out to amplify the message of the song.
The piece was conceived and created by The Rumpus Room as a multi platform project, having versions of the film for small hand held devices as well as large resolution screens. It is both a traditional piece of film and an interactive portal to online information and campaigns.
The video has over 100 QR Codes that are subliminal when watched in real time, but accessible to interact with if you navigate through the film using time controllers. The QR Codes are organised into sections that relate to specific issues of civil liberties.”
Visit the Pet Shop Boys Website for more information. The Production Company The Rumpus Room is a new division of The Sweet Shop, specialized in non-narrative Storytelling. Sounds interesting? Read an interview with Tomas Rope, founder of Tomato Interactive, and now involved in Rumpus Room, in the german culture magazine Spex. (german only)
ROOM IDEAS is the third iteration of the well known IKEA Micorsites famous for their heavy and thoughfully use of video footage. This one is pretty sililar to the original kitchen website (Dromkok by Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors) with its use of motion control rig to film the footage and the user controls to zoom/rotate/navigate through the videos in the website. The second website kominigarderobe had much less interactivity.
Vincent Morisset has produced has produced an interactive Music Video for Arcade Fire’s “Neon Bible”.
Even though the degree of interactivity is rather small it feels quite natural, as the actions taking place respond to certain events in the lyrics.
On the first look arranging three YouTube videos next to each other seems pretty odd, but as I was exploring the You3b site I recognized the potential of it.
The combination of three thematically connected or contrasting videos can be quite interesting. (See Metanoise as an example). Changing the volume of the single clips even gives you more variations, therefore it almost feels like a live djing tool. If you guys find more interesting montages on the site, let me know.
Video Remixes are all over the web right now. Therefore Sony gets it’s own Remix-Website to promote three new Vaio models. You can record yourself via your webcam and the recut the material on the website. Problem is that all three example videos are quite akward. It’s not really getting better that they label these remixes as “a sophisticated mix of intelligence and elegance.”
Question is, if the theme of the Remix matches the idea of the product or if they are just following a trend?
“V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands).”
TEST_LAB: PLAY!
EUROPEAN ELECTRONIC-ART GRADUATION PROJECTS OF 2007
Thursday, 12 July 2007, 8:00 p.m.
“TEST_LAB: PLAY! will feature a selection of the best European electronic-art graduation projects of 2007. The pieces have been selected according to originality and quality, and especially the way they use the concept of play - that is, the playfulness evoked by the work. At TEST_LAB: PLAY! these projects will be demonstrated, tested, and discussed among makers, audience and experts.”
This event will be streamed live at: http://live.v2.nl/play.ram
The Coke Zero Website get’s updated : Untill July 20th, from 17-21h (CET) people can race Carrera live over the internet, hosted by the �Racegirls� Anna und Aldina.
Outtakes of the (german) Newsletter from agency Scholz & Volkmer: “Im Netz steuern, was im realen Leben passiert. Unsere Wiesbadener Agenturr�ume werden sich vom 2.-20. Juli in einen Carrera Rennparcours verwandeln. Die Racing-Bahn ist mit einem Server verbunden. Und ab n�chster Woche hei�t es an jedem Werktag von 17-21h f�r die User: auf www.cokezero.de anmelden, Motto ausdenken, Warteposition im Auge behalten, und dann, Mann gegen Mann, versuchen �bers Internet das Kommando auf unserer Rennbahn zu �bernehmen. Live vor Ort sind dann auch die �Racegirls� Anna und Aldina, die das Geschehen moderieren, die Modellautos nach einem Crash wieder auf die Spur setzen, die Fahrer anfeuern und sich nat�rlich �ber zahlreiche Fanpost freuen.”