Comments(0) Jhave Johnston:
http://glia.ca/conu/TML/remediosTerrarium-03-18-08/imageDetrius.swf
Mani Thivierge’s photo gallery:
http://www.photo.emmanuelthivierge.com/RemediosTerrarium/
Patrick Harrop’s Ocular Witness Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/7930445@N05/sets/72157604360449221/show/
Comments(1) Hi everyone,
tonight was the last ‘event’ of the Remedios Terrarium exhibit. Congrat’s again! Inspiring is the least I can say about this discussion.
It’s now time to wrap-up, celebrate and get together to share our experience of making RT.
Our exhibition closes tomorrow, Friday, at 7pm (The gallery is not open on Saturday-for sure).
Technically you can start packing your things at 7, but please don’t start before that(unless you have to -JS, Flower -ok)
The gallery has to be completely cleared on Monday night at the latest. Wall repairs are going to get done by Lynn’s technicians on Tuesday.
After asking around all day today I think that Saturday is the best day to get together and take the biggest things down. It would be nice to do as much as possible in groups.
Sunday and Monday, I will be out of town and I don’t know how much people will be around/available to help out (except for Lenka and Desh taking the Cones down, and Flower taking care of the plants on Monday)
Strike Schedule:
Also available on the TML-Shared Google calendar (BUT MORE PRECISE HERE)
(visible at
http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=enc0mlbupaurd8qhenaducvd0g%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Montreal
and
http://topologicalmedialab.com/blogs/calendar)
Friday:
10 am: Tim gets the big Hexagram cart for the weekend.
– : JS takes some projectors down.
8.30 pm Nacando Productions launch- cocktail @ NFB-ONF (the National Film Board of Canada) 1564, rue St. Denis, Montreal. See RSVP list at the bottom of this email **
Do not hesitate to contact Desh if you want to come but haven’t confirmed “Nacando Productions” <nacando@gmail.com>
Saturday:
(I will take my car in case some people need to take stuff home after)
9 am, Harry and JA taking the cells and the lights down.
11am, Elena and Flower are getting started on the vitrine and their respective things.
Tim is packing the sound gear
Ayesha is taking care of Sebald Theater
Jhave is taking his pedestal and computer home.
–Patrick unavailable
Sunday:
– Patrick, Harry, Tim unavailable
– JA -out of town.
Monday:
complete strike
Lenka - cones
– JA -out of town.
Tuesday:
10 am someone else than Tim returns the Hexagram cart, because Tim will be out of town. (any voluntary? please let tim <timothyvsutton@gmail.com> and I know.)
4-6 campfire : project debriefing. We should revisit, things that worked well as well as things that didn’t work so well; and talk about the project documents and events documentation for project archive.
Notes:
Eliot, Doug, please make sure that one of you come either Saturday or Monday to take the sensate tapestry and related gear.
Jae Ok, and other Touch2 folks, I will take care of removing our things from the wall, but if you want to help out, just call me Saturday.
I think that the projectors are going down tomorrow because they are needed for another event in the evening.
If you were not concerned by any of the above, but you have time in your hands, or need help to take your things down, or whatever, please come Saturday 11am.
On Saturday night or Sunday I will send another e-mail with progress report and estimate of the amount of work that’s left to do for Monday. Hopefully most of it is done.
Thanks to all for being part of RT’ Please join us in celebrating the end of this journey tomorrow night at the NFB and for the project debriefing on Tuesday during campfire (4-6 pm).
**Desh, here is the list of people that have told me they would come. I might be a bit off, because I’m writing that by memory, but I remember that the number was 14.
1Xin Wei
2Harry
3Many
4Many’s friend
5Kiani
6Kiani’s friend
7Morgan
8Morgan’s friend
9JA
10Pascal
11Manuelle
12Francis
13JC
14Jhave ?
Comments(0) Just a few links about the vernissage/exhibition of RT… for historical purposes. Please add any other links that you come across, especially those who will be created during and after the exhibit.
Montreal Mirror (this links will die)
Canadian Art News (this link will die)
Comments(0) CREDITS arranged by creative work
March 6, 2008 xw
March 16, 2008 jc
March 16, 2008 xw
March 17, 2008 ts
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Main Gallery
Cell Sculpture
Patrick Harrop; Gregory Rubin, JC Nesci, Candace Fempel, Evan Marnoch, Dirk Blouw, Jean-Sebastien Rousseau; Flower Lunn
Welded PVC plastic, mono-filament, fabric, water, plants.
Description: A net of transparent cells fills the airspace at diverse heights.
Calligraphic Video Projection
Jean-Sebastien Rousseau (Michael Fortin)
Max / Jitter, OpenGL, projectors, Mac G5 computers, cameras
Description: Multiple streams of camera input transmute to responsive video projected onto the surfaces of the Gallery, providing weather.
Sound Field
Timothy Sutton
Max / MSP, Logic, microphones, Mac G5 computer, hardware sound
processors, speakers
Description: Ten channels of synthesized and transmuted sound form a
palpable dynamical field.
Dynamic Light Field
Harry Smoak
Lighting instruments, DMX dimmers, LAN interface, Max, Macintosh computer
Description: 1. A row of luminous pattern at the base of the south wall refracts activity from the sidewalk. 2. An array of lights build and respond to conditions in the gallery.
Electrified Flight Sensate Weaving
Marguerite Bromley (XS Labs); Elliot Sinyor, Doug van Nort + IDMIL McGill; WYSIWYG group TML
20′ wide, 4′ high Jacquard-woven fabric, conductive thread, custom electronics, Arduino micro-processor, speaker, Mac Mini computer
Description: A 20′ wide weaving diverts flow around a corner of the gallery. It sounds as a visitor approaches or touches a pattern.
Black Box
Suitcase
Elena Frantova, Timothy Sutton (Lenka Novak, JS Rousseau)
Suitcase, plaster sculpture, electronics, sound.
Description: An old suitcase contains a doll-sized TML, with plaster figures illuminated by dynamic lights. Multi-channel, algorithmic sound playback system.
Cone Sculpture
Lenka Novak
Mono-filament, cast glass, projected video.
Description: Seven glass disks are suspended from cones of monofilament. A projection of a river textures on to the monofilament.
Plant Systems
Flower Lunn
Plants, moss, soil, wood, string, aquaria, water, pumps, gro-lights, timers
Description: Arranged moss clusters at the base of the vitrine. Water plants float in the cell sculpture. Soil-based plants climb trellis made of string and plastic tubing.
Vitrine Corridor
Louis-Andre Fortin, Flower Lunn, Nadia Frantova, Elena Frantova, Timothy Sutton
Cut and printed paper, found objects, plasma display, subwoofer, microphone, sound processing system.
Description: A line of stills from the official TML documentation videos forms a vector from Mackay Street end through 3 sections of the vitrine. The actual, messy history lies on the floor as found objects and images from the lab. Microphones and moss cluster at the air gaps between the vitrine’s glass plates, absorbing air, sound, moisture. Low sounds permeate the space.
Sebald Cabinet
Mark Sussman, Ayesha Hameed
Wooden cabinet, television set, speakers
Description: This cabinet, augmented by recorded sound and video, references a series of table-top theater pieces by Mark Sussman and colleagues in Great Small Works based on the writing of W.G. Sebald.
Documentation Pedastal
David Jhave Johnston
Cabinet, PC computer, Display monitor
Events
Remedios Terrarium Event
Sha Xin Wei, Morgan Sutherland, Emmanuele Thivierge (Yon Visell)
Max / C, Mac G5 computer
Description: The Gallery’s weather constantly evolves according to pre-composed tendencies as well as activities inside and outside the space.
Vernissage March 20
Lynn Beavis, JA Drolet
Thursday March 20, 18h00 - 20h00
Touch2 March 20, Dusk (19h06)
Choreographer: Soo-yeon Cho
Dancers: Soo-yeon Cho, Kiani dal Valle
Edited video: Desh Fernando
Video & Projection: Jae-Ok Lee
Real time video design : Jean-Sébastien Rousseau
Set design & Construction : Josée-Anne Drolet, Pascal Simard, Jae-Ok Lee
Costume design : Josée-Anne Drolet, Jae-Ok Lee
Touch1 video : Touch creators, filmed by Desh Fernando
Touch1 sound design : Timothy Sutton
Touch2 sound editing : Soo-yeon Cho
Touch2 sound sources : Timothy Sutton, Freida Abtan, Akumu
Lighting : Harry Smoak
Coordination : Josée-Anne Drolet
Technical consultation : Harry Smoak, Jean-Sébastien Rousseau
Description: A 6 minute version of the Touch1 dance video of two dancers will be projected onto west wall. At dusk, Soo bursts from a paper structure on the west wall. She and Kiani dance among the suspended cells and the Tapestry, leaving visual traces on the wall.
Comments(1) here are two videos edited together from Patrick’s cell demo a few weeks ago.
the first video is a 5 min demo with sound; the second is a rapid fly-thru of building a cell circuit (w/o sound)
Comments(1) it’s up on the TML cupboards. you’ll see it when you come into the lab. there are dry-erase markers in a little plastic box on the computer at the right (’james’), which will totally do the trick. please make use of the calendar for whatever RT due-dates and mile-stones you see fit.
Comments(0) here’s a point outline:
> let’s collect as much media as possible
. this blog’s gallery is the collection point for all still pics or images
. ‘pierce’ (tml video editing station) is the collection point for any video you might have;
please dump video files in the ‘movies’ folder of the machine’s main hard drive
. please use 29.97 drop-frame (DF) while recording, if possible; no NDF or 24p please
. please keep audio settings in mind while recording
. please label your files with date, subject, format (HD?), and any other notable details
. the purpose of the Remedios’ Terrarium Video Documentary is to answer,
“how did Remedios’ Terrarium come together?”
. video footage of work and testing sessions will be interspersed with interviews and ‘confessional’ footage
to show a chronological assembly of the installation
. this formula will be modified depending on what media is actually collected over the next eight weeks
Please stay tuned to this blog for further Video Documentary announcements, such as the interview/confessional sessions. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please let me know.
Comments(0) Friday Feb. 8 those of us who are programming or processing any data should discuss the software architecture. Here’s an overall diagram of the media choreography arch. We will update and localize it to the current RT applications. The strategy should be to write each “installation” as an instrument with 1-3 (or so) free, continuous parameters that are listening on the local network to external inputs 0 to 1. Each instrument should also have fade in/out and mute functions. One of our practical experimental goals is to discover some compelling multi-dimensional interpolations between instruments for transitions between states. For speed-up, we can instantiate subsets of instruments in their own instances of Max. One question is whether an instance should be associated with a single state or to a simplex. This is both practically and conceptually important.
