Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0904040124240.606@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Purblind
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 01:25:24 -0400 (EDT)
Purblind http://www.alansondheim.org/ newanimal pngs http://www.alansondheim.org/newanimal.mp4 If you're interested in online politics and the political economy of virtual worlds, you might want to go to http://odysseyart.ning.com and check out the Forum discussion on Odyssey's future. With my usual pess- imism I wonder if Odyssey will survive all of this. In the meantime I build hysterically, experimenting with new spatial configurations and negotiations. In this installation (newanimal), very large flats (thanks to Ian Murray) with images from motion-capture and modeling research, are rotated at very high speed. The flats sense avatar presence, have sound, emit particles, glow slightly, run askew in two differentiated groups, and portray irresolvable and irresolute topologies. This is why I'm purblind, unable to see beyond the texture of denouement. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22