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After yesterday’s class, I wanted to look up more about Spectropia. I wanted to see if there were any video clips that showed more about what the interactive parts of this “feature film” are. This video is the closest I got. It doesn’t so much show the interactive part, but it was still pretty cool, so I had to share.  It’s kind of scary…in an eerie sort of way.

“Two Movie Clips from Spectropia by Toni Dove, an interactive cinema event.

SPECTROPIA: A highly imaginative interactive cinema event, a “scratchable” movie performed by video DJs playing a movie “instrument”.

Toni Dove’s sci-fi hybrid, features time travel, telepathy, and elements of film noir in a drama set in England, 2099 and in New York City, 1931, following the Great Crash.” -tdovevideo

“Cyberspace and heaven aren’t so different,” he suggests. “You don’t really know where they are, you can’t actually go there, yet there’s a conceptual openness that allows people to enter them both.” -Nick Crowe

After the reading (pg.96-111) assigned for last Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008, I was inspired to look up some stuff about one of the artists mentioned, Nick Crowe, and found some interesting stuff, including this article I am giving a link to below. The work in our book was his Discrete Packets.

Digital Folk: Artist Nick Crowe Subverts Human-Web Interaction

I know it’s been a while and there were some things that I wanted to put on here that I found interesting. The first one is a really neat little video that combines beautiful, recognizable paintings of women and kind of morphs them into each other. It takes something “traditional” and allows us to view it in another way…digitally.

Then the next video is comparable to the video we saw in class about the History of Computers. It is important to know the history of computers if one is going to understand technology today. It is about the history of computers and how technology is being used by us today.