tape (VHS or cassette) - based choose your own adventure type story ...
comment on difficulty and amount of time spent programming a C++ or text one
... for something that is, ultimately, kind of stale and obsolete ...
how does it work?
like seventeen cassette decks with built-in speakers (a la jose's)
with recorded segments separated by tones ...
initial deck:
"you are so and so in a room.
there are six items. to examine item one,
press play on deck 1, to examine item two, press play on deck 2.
play on deck 2,
you've found such and such and it does this thing.
to you use it, press play on deck 3, to throw it away and
look at something else, press play on deck 4. to enter your own idea,
press play and record on deck 5 and begin describing what you do.
please suggest a subsequent course of action.
play and record on deck 5:
"i am going to go down to the park and do nothing.
press play on deck 9 to see what happens"
jumbled and ridiculous.
the story starts to get less and less synchronized.
another tape deck in the distance w/ high powered microphone and headphones
recording entire afternoon to tape. capable of being stopped and rewound
for revision, subsequently making an accidental, user-orchestrated tape collage.
user may also end up messing with microphone. only instruction is to leave it recording
when disinterested.
--
design of piece sort of places it
in the realm of "designed for individual use."
if played through speakers, however, piece enters
realm of group awareness. individual is uncomfortable
to use piece as individual before group of impatient onlookers
or individual is really into it and onlookers get bored and move on.
works better in show with other pieces? at quieter volume?
or on headphones? if headphones, no collage from afar?
or, since headphones, all tape machines running into mixer,
mixer running across room to "field recording" machine.
----
other pieces in show,
debut of text game? or is that insignificant?
show could be called "User Error" or works with a high
likelihood of being disrupted during display. too much antagonism //
you're asking for it?
what are other instances of: user filters message / controls manner in which
they receive message / actually creates message / subtracts from or ruins message
/ mutilates or transforms message / ____ :
okay, obviously
mixing board with individual tracks in a song or previously recorded piece (eg. field recording)
mixing board with individual hot microphones elsewhere in room or building
some image with hundreds of layers of something else over it;
user encouraged to peel away / rip at
some track where each time it is played its quality degrades
a computer at which user is asked to re-upload something to youtube //
or user sits down at two head tape deck and makes dub of cassette a to cassette b
then next user from cassette b to cassette a then next from cassette a back to b
etc. etc. // or user sits at computer and degrades something at their leisure
station where user erases files, like plugged in external hard drive
with all sorts of stuff on it, song files, texts, video edits ... with like
oversized "Trash" on desktop and arrow on desktop background image
between open folder and trash < --- this is just straight destruction, tho ...
what is that getting at?
table with a phone and flip over numbers
like [2][0][6] - [5][3][3] - [2][6][6][3] and after someone
makes a phone call they flip one of the digits over ...
----
what will you end up with, tho?
a bunch of shit going haywire not resembling anything?
i guess this is "a statement" on several things:
destructiveness of humans, human error, fallibility of technology,
footprint and legacy, continued lack of seamlessness between user and interface,
unintended designs and consequences,
----
some station in which you create something on one format
and try to use it on another ...
taking the idea / metaphor to another medium?
like food? using scrambled eggs to bake a cake?
some video of weird cooking show where guy tries to
use ingredients - but every one of them is in the wrong format?
sega dreamcast ... would be cool to use that.
unfortunately, a lot of disc type things just display
a "cannot read" message rather than do something crazy.
(index / visual archive of "wrong media" messages
set to music - something that is glitching out - and played on looping tape?)
instances of "well, that's not supposed to go in there, but it physically fits,
and so i do it" and then "it performs incorrectly"
scantron testing machine (<---is this starting to get too "kooky old junk that goes wrong!" ?)
i am jamming long form, chil electronic jams and people are allowed to unplug stuff
while i play? jk, that's not gonna work. but all instruments could be routed thru different
amps and ppl could be allowed to turn amps on or off. they all start off "off" to get attn.
---
back to idea of choose your own adventure's emotional content:
a program (or more realistically large sheet of paper) with a handful
of starting points like "After Highschool" or "First Kiss" or w/e
and encouragement to input route or follow existing route to provide some idea
of number of potential things that could have happened
emotional content & technology:
---
some nod to present moment
and means of pointing out what is happening
in the gallery in terms of user's latest decision
comment on difficulty and amount of time spent programming a C++ or text one
... for something that is, ultimately, kind of stale and obsolete ...
how does it work?
like seventeen cassette decks with built-in speakers (a la jose's)
with recorded segments separated by tones ...
initial deck:
"you are so and so in a room.
there are six items. to examine item one,
press play on deck 1, to examine item two, press play on deck 2.
play on deck 2,
you've found such and such and it does this thing.
to you use it, press play on deck 3, to throw it away and
look at something else, press play on deck 4. to enter your own idea,
press play and record on deck 5 and begin describing what you do.
please suggest a subsequent course of action.
play and record on deck 5:
"i am going to go down to the park and do nothing.
press play on deck 9 to see what happens"
jumbled and ridiculous.
the story starts to get less and less synchronized.
another tape deck in the distance w/ high powered microphone and headphones
recording entire afternoon to tape. capable of being stopped and rewound
for revision, subsequently making an accidental, user-orchestrated tape collage.
user may also end up messing with microphone. only instruction is to leave it recording
when disinterested.
--
design of piece sort of places it
in the realm of "designed for individual use."
if played through speakers, however, piece enters
realm of group awareness. individual is uncomfortable
to use piece as individual before group of impatient onlookers
or individual is really into it and onlookers get bored and move on.
works better in show with other pieces? at quieter volume?
or on headphones? if headphones, no collage from afar?
or, since headphones, all tape machines running into mixer,
mixer running across room to "field recording" machine.
----
other pieces in show,
debut of text game? or is that insignificant?
show could be called "User Error" or works with a high
likelihood of being disrupted during display. too much antagonism //
you're asking for it?
what are other instances of: user filters message / controls manner in which
they receive message / actually creates message / subtracts from or ruins message
/ mutilates or transforms message / ____ :
okay, obviously
mixing board with individual tracks in a song or previously recorded piece (eg. field recording)
mixing board with individual hot microphones elsewhere in room or building
some image with hundreds of layers of something else over it;
user encouraged to peel away / rip at
some track where each time it is played its quality degrades
a computer at which user is asked to re-upload something to youtube //
or user sits down at two head tape deck and makes dub of cassette a to cassette b
then next user from cassette b to cassette a then next from cassette a back to b
etc. etc. // or user sits at computer and degrades something at their leisure
station where user erases files, like plugged in external hard drive
with all sorts of stuff on it, song files, texts, video edits ... with like
oversized "Trash" on desktop and arrow on desktop background image
between open folder and trash < --- this is just straight destruction, tho ...
what is that getting at?
table with a phone and flip over numbers
like [2][0][6] - [5][3][3] - [2][6][6][3] and after someone
makes a phone call they flip one of the digits over ...
----
what will you end up with, tho?
a bunch of shit going haywire not resembling anything?
i guess this is "a statement" on several things:
destructiveness of humans, human error, fallibility of technology,
footprint and legacy, continued lack of seamlessness between user and interface,
unintended designs and consequences,
----
some station in which you create something on one format
and try to use it on another ...
taking the idea / metaphor to another medium?
like food? using scrambled eggs to bake a cake?
some video of weird cooking show where guy tries to
use ingredients - but every one of them is in the wrong format?
sega dreamcast ... would be cool to use that.
unfortunately, a lot of disc type things just display
a "cannot read" message rather than do something crazy.
(index / visual archive of "wrong media" messages
set to music - something that is glitching out - and played on looping tape?)
instances of "well, that's not supposed to go in there, but it physically fits,
and so i do it" and then "it performs incorrectly"
scantron testing machine (<---is this starting to get too "kooky old junk that goes wrong!" ?)
i am jamming long form, chil electronic jams and people are allowed to unplug stuff
while i play? jk, that's not gonna work. but all instruments could be routed thru different
amps and ppl could be allowed to turn amps on or off. they all start off "off" to get attn.
---
back to idea of choose your own adventure's emotional content:
a program (or more realistically large sheet of paper) with a handful
of starting points like "After Highschool" or "First Kiss" or w/e
and encouragement to input route or follow existing route to provide some idea
of number of potential things that could have happened
emotional content & technology:
---
some nod to present moment
and means of pointing out what is happening
in the gallery in terms of user's latest decision
---
really bad voice recognition software
that always misinterprets what you say
no matter how hard you try or how clear you
try to make yourself ...
really bad voice recognition software
that always misinterprets what you say
no matter how hard you try or how clear you
try to make yourself ...
---
what's so funny bout too many understandings?
---
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ThursdaySent from Chat
Wm. Statler- chil. we be in touch
- don't worry bout lonely
- time will go by fast afterall
- it'll be like 2056 before u kno it
-
and ule be like "those were the dqays,"
----
saying something because it is correct
syntactically -- but means nothing or little to you
in real life or practice
constantly having missed connections because ...
you wrote the code someplace wrong a long while ago ...
or ... there is some programming analogy here ...
"what is meaning?"
lol but srsly people ...
you have this ideal project in mind
but the program keeps creating something else
and it is endlessly frustrating to you until you learn
to love it for what it is making ... do u wanna do that, tho?
i feel like it is really insane to try to define yourself within the context of holding someone else's well-being in ur hands (god complex) -- "running the risk of upsetting someone"
syntactically -- but means nothing or little to you
in real life or practice
constantly having missed connections because ...
you wrote the code someplace wrong a long while ago ...
or ... there is some programming analogy here ...
"what is meaning?"
lol but srsly people ...
you have this ideal project in mind
but the program keeps creating something else
and it is endlessly frustrating to you until you learn
to love it for what it is making ... do u wanna do that, tho?
i feel like it is really insane to try to define yourself within the context of holding someone else's well-being in ur hands (god complex) -- "running the risk of upsetting someone"
---
absurdity of trying to program
emotional content into Welcome 3 Jamal ...
examine feelings
emotional content into Welcome 3 Jamal ...
examine feelings
---
place truth into category of doubt
lock category of emotional doubt
lock category of emotional doubt
---
dalai lama walks into a pizza shop
"make me 1 with everything"
"make me 1 with everything"
---
no1 will die (i hope)
---
if %var% = 1, then =1
---
if %var% = 0, then 2
---
that it sucks"
---
cheap dictation software
with a fucked up microphone?
with a fucked up microphone?
---
"a guy has done a thing"
pres 1 to be chil with this