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Den 30 Maj har vi examensutställning i Folkets Park. Kom dit mellan 14 och 21. Välkomna!
Vill ni se vår prototyp?
https://www.stiber.se/rainmaker/index1.html
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An inspiring ceremony is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. It is held in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, and one of the objectives is to console the victims of the atomic bomb. The 6th of August every year, thousands gather to pray for the realization of a lasting world peace. The ceremony is 45 minutes long and contains, amongst other things, silent prayer, bell ringing (at 8:15, the time the bomb was dropped), peace declaration, 1000 doves being released, commitment to peace (by child representatives), and the Hiroshima Peace song (sung by a choir with approximately 500 members).
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How about this interaction? Touched Echo is a installation for the balustrade on the “Bruehlsche Terrasse” in Dresden. From it you have a view of “Neustadt” which was almost completely destroyed in World War II. By placing their hands over their ears while leaning against the balustrade, vistors will hear bombers flying over their head and explosions of the bombs. The echo of the past (the sound) is transmitted via the forearm to your skull bone, where it enters the inner ear). Interesting.
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Greatpockets.com is an advertising site for Nokias new phone. But I didn’t know that when I entered the site and I thought of it only as a joyful and well-crafted piece of critical design. It has some nice interactive storytelling and humour and so on. But then when I thought I was exiting the site, the real point of it flew in and landed delicately in my lap. Nice!
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“ECOTONOHA IS A PROJECT – TO NURTURE A VIRTUAL TREE COLLABORATIVELY, AND AT THE SAME TIME CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACTUAL ENVIRONMENT TO COPE WITH GLOBAL WARMING. AS YOU MAKE ECOTONOHA’S LEAVES, THE VIRTUAL TREE WILL GROW, AND AS ECOTONOHA GROWS, REAL TREES WILL BE PLANTED BY NEC.”
This whole concept is well thought throw and the website very beautiful. It’s a good example of how a message board can be more and look better then a traditional message board. It is also an example of how the web can be used to encourage visitors to participate in something bigger then just the actual web site.
Go to https://www.ecotonoha.com/index_en.html and leave a message.
Creator of the website seems to be https://www.yugop.com/ which also has a very interesting website.
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Bagdad can be toured in Brooklyn in the piece You Are Not Here. By putting the two cities maps on top of eachother, the artists could decide where to put site specific information from the streets of Bagdad on the correlating places in Brooklyn, in form of stickers with access codes and telephone numbers to “the Tourist Hotline”. The information recieved could for instance contain ‘the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein and how this might have been a stage event as most of the spectators of it were American soldiers and journalists’. The time it takes to walk all over town, in addition to the information with a different perspective then we get from TV news, can give room for discussion and contemplation.
Next project is called
Bagdad><San Fransisco. Here it’s more about what San Fransisco would look like if they got the same bombs that Bagdad recieved. Would your home be bombed?
The last project I found working with entangled city maps is called Cherry Blossoms, and was actually inspired by Bagdad<>San Fransisco. Creator Alyssa Wright brings the bombs of Bagdad back home to the US in her own way; She let’s you put on a backpack filled with confetti and sends you on walk through the streets of Boston. Your backpack can, and will, blow up at any moment. It works like this:
‘Cherry Blossoms is a backpack that uses a small microcontroller and a GPS unit. Recent news of bombings in Iraq are downloaded to the unit every night, and their relative location to the center of the city are superimposed on a map of Boston. If the wearer walks in a space in Boston that’s correlated to a site of violence in Baghdad, the backpack detonates, releasing a compressed air cloud of confetti, looking for all the world like smoke and shrapnel. Each piece of confetti has the name of a civilian who died in a war based on lies.’
I would just love to have a backpack like that…. Here’s another link explaining the project.
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Commemoration
Contemplation
Education
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]]>– The anonymity of the web can make you feel safer than in real life.
– Internet have the power to make you become more daring and curious.
– The web is quick to involve the user, make her immersed and make her into a participant.
– A meeting place for many different media. A place for different media to collaborate.
– An experimental place. A place where people want to test the boundaries and push them further, were people actually go to be experimental. Where they search for new kinds of experiences.
– A messy place where you easily get lost. A jungle.
– A place of enormous storage possibilities.
How to benefit from these characteristics
Benefit from the visitor being able to be daring and curious
– create a “wow” – experience.
– do some mcluhan “coolness”.
Benefit from the web’s ability to involve
– Create discussions by provoking.
– Use an abstract, loose form to let the visitor steer her own imagination. Give her the oppertunity to reflect on a subject of her choice.
– Create ways for the visitor to make her voice heard. It’s good to create more than one way, to give the visitor even more freedom of choice.
– Make the visitor feel less alone. Personalize in some way.
– Tell engaging stories from the mouth of the source.
– Let the visitor create something.
– Make interconnected path of action, which fuels the imagination and gives the visitor possibility to choose.
Benefit from the web being a meeting point for different media
– Combine the different media to get new experiences, but also other kinds of combinations like old material and new technology, old metaphores with new materials and so on.
– New combinations can also give new knowledge and entertainment.
– New combinatons can also create new tools: photo + database, audio + internet-interactivity…
– Take advantage of benefits of the different media; like for example including audio to get a more contemplative atmosphere.
– You don’t need to know a lot about computers to create on the web anymore. Use shortcuts, like plug-ins and so on, when you’re a little bit short on knowledge.
Benefit from the web’s love for the experimental
– Abstract form can work since the computer user is more open to the experimental.
– Create the feeling of not being in control by letting the visitor understand that she can’t see the whole picture.
– Create storytelling in an experimental way: X: changing directions, Y: layered pictures with interrelationship, Z: getting deph a la fake way
– New combinations is also experimental
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