Fergie @ del.icio.us.

I have noticed that my del.icios.us posting has not appeared on the blog. So I’m reposting it, along with my views of how I use the webpage.

My del.icios.us webpage is not going to be just a bookmark page that works within the Tiip blog, it is more of a ‘traveling notepad’ that keeps me up to date with general information I want and need. I guess thats the point of the whole sites agenda, but what makes it a really useful tool, which I now really on, is that I can receive links to other peoples del.icio.us bookmarks where I can find information from other websites I never thought of looking at. So not only is it a tool in itself, it is a tool I use to gain access to other tools. I do use it for artistic information, but I use it to keep up with current affairs, economics, and information I need for my travels.

I also like to think of my del.icio.us. pages as a communication device for others, so we can share information globally. It hasn’t grown it to that kinda of page yet, but its early days. So here is the link – http://del.icio.us/powerferg. Let us share what we find…?

Filed under: e-tivity03-0708, fergie

Artist Blog: Goto 10

I found this blog during my usual travels though the web. Its about musical, film, film/audio software design, music creators, etc. Its the kind of software I use to make backing tracks for my music, or whole songs, depends what kind of mood I’m in… also I used to be part of groups like this, and I kinda find it fun and interesting to keep up with the scene…

Anyway I shall tell you how I found it. I use random sound sequencing between songs on my musical tracks to keep the the tracks (or should I call them songs?) continuous on cds, or mp3s. I use some free audio software from a website called IXI Software (heres the link – http://www.ixi-software.net).

IXI Software had a link to this blog – Goto 10 (http://www.goto10.org) which is for international film, musical or sound artist who put together meetings, websites, or musical outfits, etc. Its more of an ideas factory for a global network of these computer geeks, who make strange and abstract sounds mixed with film and other mediums.

Its like the blog we are doing, but what makes it really interesting is that the prime interest is in software which is FREE for all. It all comes under what they call Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and digital art.

Just have a browse. See if anything inspires you… Here’s the web page again – http://www.goto10.org

(http://goto10.org/back-from-piksel07/#more-114)

 

Oh! And if you think this stuff is interesting… This guy makes music this way – http://www.jimmytamborello.com/
Look at all the links to his projects,and other music artists. Its all made this way…

 

 

Filed under: e-tivity02-0708, fergie, tiip

Concept For Project One (e-tivity 01)

Yes, my Project One is very pretentious… but its a challenge!!!

Practices Of Man & Media Superposition’s Part One:
A Film/Video Superposition
Quantum superposition is about the chance of what shall happen in a situation, yet it is unknown to us until the conclusion is placed before us. There is a math behind it. Removing ourselves from the maths of the quantum superposition we are left with ‘reality’ of it. Thus when this position is imposed, or forced upon us it becomes unknown. We have not recognized the situation we where in until it has passed. Or we are too involved in the moment to find out a conclusion, or we are too busy partaking in the moment within a choice to resolve a final conclusion. The conclusion is never known until it has happened. If a moment was to be created without a final conclusion, a fifty/fifty percent chance of resolution, what metaphysical and existential questions are we left with within our own existence?
In order to display this function on a mass level one must display its usability within a public domain, for example a scientific exhibition using the quantum superposition within quantum theory, but in this case a work of art.

‘Practices Of Man & Media Superposition Part One’ shall come under the medium of film and video. Covering simple metaphysical, and existential questions of what is ‘being alive’, or ‘how one is alive’ and ‘what is it to die?’ Simple questions, but with immensely complicated, and still unknown, answers. Also the major aspect of ‘what is the effect of man – media immersion?’ shall occur, as an analysis of how one is within a superposition – media connection.
The reason behind this is within the fiction of the video artwork itself – a superposition of being alive and dead coherently.

A filmed subject person shall be projected upon a wall, inside a darkened room, which in turn shall be recorded with a video camera. He or she, appearing in the projection, just head and shoulders, shall be the Reactionary. The reason the Reactionary shall appear with just head and shoulders is to guaranty the audience viewing the work realize this subject is within a media form. Whilst this projection upon the wall is being filmed the same subject person shall be interacting with the projection of themselves in the same room. The subject person outside of the projection, although the same person within the projection, shall be called the Initiator. This interaction will be in the form of a violent montage upon the Reactionary, by the Initiator, pushing the Initiator into the act of murder upon the projected film of the Reactionary. Although this work shall be a gruesome experience for a viewer, the content is not as extreme as one may think. Remember both characters within the work are the same person/actor. This, within a fictional content, induces the audiences into a question of who his dead?

The subject person, both Reactionary and Initiator are converged onto the same person, making the subject within the film alive and dead at the same time when the conclusion is delivered. This manufactures the audience into a superposition quandary, which in theory shall continue till the inevitable conclusion of the audience leaving their view of the work or, in the grand scale, to the end of their lives. The end of the work constitutes each viewer to the point of never knowing the conclusion of the fiction. Thus forever living in a superposition of this subject person being, in the fictional piece, alive or dead. The conclusion could only be one or the other, making it both at the same time, but only within the film.

Here is an example of the Quantum Superposition

McEvoy, J. P. & Zarate O., (1999). Introducing Quantum Theory. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books Ltd (p.146-q47).

McEvoy, J. P. & Zarate O., (1999). Introducing Quantum Theory. Cambridge, UK: Icon Books Ltd (p.106).

If anyone has any thoughts on this let me know, because I always seem to miss out an important factor somewhere.

Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, fergie