[aha] Master Digital Environment Design + Xtend3dLab a FuorisaloneMilano2008

Thu Apr 17 15:07:20 CEST 2008

In occasione di Fuorisalone 2008 Milano,
NABASUTRA

Master Digital Environment Design presenta HYPERWISH. Move Around  
Desire.
presso Naba, aula 14.2 _ edificio Amaranto
venerdì 18 aprile dalle 18.00 alle 22.00 e sabato 19 aprile dalle  
18.00 alle 24.00

Xtend3dLab presenta VIP_csc
presso Naba, aula 15_edificio Amaranto
venerdì 18 aprile dalle 18.00 alle 22.00 e sabato 19 aprile dalle  
18.00 alle 24.00

il Master Digital Environment Design e Xtend3dLab, unitamente alla  
Scuola di Nuove Tecnologie dell'Arte - Media Design
dedicano idealmente questi lavori a Edward Lorenz, il padre della  
Teoria del caos scomparso ieri

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HYPERWISH. Move Around Desire.
Alessio Chierico - Silvia Corna - Nima Hajihosseini - Giulia  
Martinucci - Cüney Özsekes - Fabio Pelegalli - Silvia Riva - Ambhika  
Samsen - Machiel Vellhamp - Mariangela Zarriello

Il desiderio è da sempre considerato una delle sfere di maggiore  
intimità della persona, un'intimità chiusa in se stessa, che  
raccoglie il sogno di un'illusione. Ma cosa succede se sono i nuovi  
media a raccogliere, catalizzare e presentare i nostri intenti in un  
unico spazio? Questa è la sfida che l'installazione Hyperwish. Move  
around desire si propone: costruire un iper-desiderio collettivo, un  
ponte tra la dimensione fisica più intima (simbolizzata dalla  
postazione dell'input) e quella sociale della rete globale  
(simbolizzata dalla interazione con una sfera). I fruitori possono  
infatti inserire un loro desiderio tramite una tastiera posizionata  
all'interno dell'ambiente dell'intimità (o da remoto, tramite un sito  
web). Tutti i desideri raccolti vengono poi scomposti e riuniti in un  
database, che si trasforma in un "archivio sensibile" che la macchina  
deve trattare.  In un secondo spazio, su tre schermi, le  
visualizzazioni in 3D rendono visibili/sensibili le relazioni  
semantiche delle singole parole, relazioni che normalmente sfuggono  
alla coscienza immediata. La sfera al centro degli schermi funziona  
da "joystick" per navigare in questo "universo del desiderio". Grazie  
all'interazione con la sfera, è infatti possibile, in tempo reale,  
soffermarsi sul proprio desiderio o su quello altrui,
osservare le costellazioni semantiche che si creano, riflettere sulla  
"censura" (in)volontariamente operata della macchina, e, forse,  
riconsiderare i presupposti della propria, iniziale intenzionalità.  
Il desiderio in uscita (dalla macchina e dall'installazione) sarà  
ancora lo stesso?

Desire has always been considered one of the most intimate spheres of  
mankind: a kind of intimacy locked up in itself, containing the dream  
of an illusion. But what if the languages powered by the new media  
tell our dreams? What if the new media gather and display our  
intentions in a single space? This is the challenge of Hyperwish Move  
around desire: to build a collective hyper-desire, a bridge between  
the most intimate physical dimension  (symbolized by the input  
station) and the social one of the global network (symbolized by the  
interaction with the sphere). Users can put in a personal desire  
through a keyboard placed within the intimacy environment (or  
remotely, through the website).  All the desires gathered are then  
broken down and re-united in a database, which is turned into a  
"sensible archive", processed by the machine. In a second space, the  
3D visualizations onto three screens make visible/sensible semantic  
relations among words that normally escape awareness.  The sphere  
works as a "joystick" to navigate this "universe of desire". Its  
swing, worked by the direct action of users, determines, in real  
time, the perspective of visualization of the projections. Thanks to  
the interaction with the sphere, users can linger on their desire or  
on someone else's,  look at their semantic constellation, reflect on  
the "censure" (un)willingly operated by the machine, and perhaps  
reconsider the assumption at the basis of their own first intention.  
Will the final desire (at the end of the process and at the end of  
the installation experience) be the same?

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V.I.P.: Virtual Identity Process interactive exhibition
The installation gives the chance to human and digital identity to  
meet each other in an interactive environment where the physical and  
the virtual side of both entities are compared. The interactive  
system is alimented by a Web connection and it has video and audio  
components that generate them self in real time from the users  
physical interaction and from their virtual interaction on the Web.  
The installation consists into two layers: a vertical (frontal  
projection) and a horizontal one (sensible screen/table). They are  
both connected with the Net activity.Frontal projection: The user  
jumps into the system typing his name on a keyboard. Web interaction  
visual design: The name generates a Web sites referred to his  
identity on the Net) manipulated into a creative pattern. Web  
interaction sound design: a sounds carpet is generated by the  
quantity and the quality of data, so by the database nature generated  
in real time. Sensible screen/table: The user interacts with the  
table surface generating and manipulating information with his hands.  
Web interaction visual design: on the table all the Web sites  
researches, referred to the visitors, are traslated into a virtual  
map made by all the IP numbers activeted. The users can interact  
collectively, generating repulsive and attractive power, opening  
passages throught the Net flux, sharing and scattering virtual  
identity fragments. Web interaction sound design: the quadrifonic  
audio component immerge the visitors in sounds sensations generated  
by the quality and the power of their interaction with the system.  
V.I.P. tries to express the real life social networking desire. It  
wants to show the technological and Net system power to stimulate new  
communication relationships, with any hierarchy order, inspired by  
the collective sense of sharing the contemporary world.

CREDITS

Xtend3d Lab
Web interaction: Giorgio Rinolfi, Giulia Trapanotti, Fabrizio Varriale
Web interaction sound design: Emanuele Lomello

Communication Manager: Giada Totaro
Web and graphic design: Fatima Bianchi, Elena
Dinovska, Alisa Lebedeva

In collaborazione con:
Software Motion Trackin by Orf Quarenghi
Consulenza Java: Studio Homa
Consulenza VVVV/Math: Gianluca Casati (Art3ch)

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NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) si trova in via C.Darwin 20, Milano
raggiungibile con la metro MM2 (linea verde), fermata Romolo; anche  
con tram 47, 90, 91
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Via+Carlo+Darwin+20,+Milan,+Lombardy+21043

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