Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0406111432030.3241@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: non-doing
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:32:14 -0400 (EDT)
non-doing video length - 7+ minutes http://www.asondheim.org/wvus.mov beware of the 98 megabytes; this is as reduced as I could make the video for the online translation of the West Virginia University exhibition, still keeping a degree of legibility - this was created with motion capture equipment that was remapped on and off the body, into heaps, splits, joins, rolls "not-doing references releasing oneself both to the information inherent in the world, and to the potential quietude at the heart of it. not-doing references the body, language, and sexuality - lassitude, languor "finger pointing at the moon "the painting is Korean, of unknown provenance the cabinet photographs are of local provenance the opera glasses adhere to the painting the opera glasses of Parisian provenance, nineteenth-century "the sound track is modified from an application that 'sounds' the wireless connections in the world. the sites chosen were City Hall Park, New York, my loft in Brooklyn, New York, and New York University at Washington Square Park. "the visuals were created in part at the VEL, Virtual Environments Lab, here at the university. "software used includes: "SAM for translating motion-capture to .bvh files Poser 4 and 5 for translating .bvh files to poser imagery CoolEdit for sound modification NetStumbler for WiFi gathering An Mp3 application for converting NetStumbler output Adobe Premier for primary editing ACDC for image file conversion Photoshop 5.5 for image creation Blender for 3d modeling Quicktime for image file conversion Mathematica for still image manipulation _