Jim Campbell
Hallucination
Wanted people to feel like they're crazy but instead they just had fun with their images "people don't look beyond their reflection"
People were more disturbed by dissapoearing based on coin-flip than by catching on fire
Digital Watch
Time is delayed 5 secs within the clock face
Ruins of light
- columns of video monitors stacked in a foodcourt layering over peop
Anti-interactive
Shadows
- as you approach the cube the more it fogs up
Why did it zoom into the man's penis?
- projected onto a bed of salt (Shadow of a bird on a beach- 2.5 dimension)
- the closer you get the more it zooms in to the point of abstraction
- noone noticed that it zoomed into the part of the body you were approaching
- a way to show different work without it being random
Dead interactive works
- use the tech, but works are on their own cycle, non-interactive
Reconstruction filter
- lincolns head is identical digital (same digital info) yet with diofferent filters it looks blurry or pixelated.
- blurring filter makes it clearer.
- how little visual info can portray an image?
- slwoing down blurred/low res waves: once stopped you can't tell its waves, but when moving at certain speed you can tell. So, somewhere in there recognitioin breaks down: where?
- going further away made led images blurry, and easier to identify
Time Compressions
- equal weight averaging of all frames in psycho; since Hitchcocks shpots are so long, there is some recognizable image
- Wizard of Oz was shorter shots so less recognizable other than the blue sky
- then reversed the process, so that he recorded his movement by filminga still object. All blur is caused by his movement
- Clock that shows time by home daylight left, with sun sensors
Questions
"Shouldn't really ask is there any way to make it interactive; we should ask is there any reason to make it interactive..."
"Obviously I am not talking about the 50 established artists in the field, but the thousands and thousans of other artists in the world."
"You don't want people to completely understand the work"
In class discussion
He focuses on how is an image constructed (digital through analogue filter, image over time), adresses the modularity of the image. Also deeply about memory
32 inputs and 32 outputs
- means that most interactive work is formulaic
- but Victor Hugo: "There are only 32 plots"
Every icon-ish project
"The total number of black and white icons in a 32 X 32 grid is: 1.8 X 10308(a billion is 109). Though, for example, at a rate of 100 icons per second (on a typical desktop computer), it will take only 1.36 years to display all variations of the first line of the grid, the second line takes an exponentially longer 5.85 billion years to complete."
(no, Jim Campbell didn't do Every Icon; he did The End, a similar project whose ideas are more clearly portrayed in every icon.)