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[Nettime-bold] Re: Image/ine - thanks |
John Phillips <jp@terragizmo.net> >Excellent effort by Marco Kosnik to put things in some perspective! His >comments are to a larger entity than the personal desires and swollen egos >so often represented on this list. dearest [bl!nk] John Phillips many many have those been demonstrated [i wear engleska l!ke 01 tomato dresz] god exists negatively and ... nn has in recent times that negatively the self exists as well tingle tangled. allora ... with mirrors we are left. i mustnt remind to you that the mirror has the greatest invention been humans have had the pleasure of constructing must i +? for the very 1st time - zum ersten mal daaaaaa. did 01 human regard that which it viewed as more authentic than that which it thought. und tzo va!ter. >Thank you if you gaze in 201 looking glass + whisper `thank you` will the mirror smile back in 2 you +? will then the strands of loosened hair surround you - like 01 vessel pouring into you. overflowing you. to the higher basins - just you to ripen. breaking off your arms - hand by hand. lingering in your mouth without feet hearing your name swearing your name extinguishing you drop. drop. burning sleep >John are you then the all +? i yearn 2 b held. - - - /_/ / \ \/ i should like to be a human plant \/ __ __/ i will shed leaves in the shade \_\ because i like stepping on bugs *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- Netochka Nezvanova nezvanova@eusocial.com http://www.eusocial.com http://www.ggttctttat.com/! n r . 5 !!! http://steim.nl/leaves/petalz *--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- --*--*--*--*--*--*-- >From: marko kosnik <march@kud-fp.si> >To: <lev@shoko.calarts.edu> >Mime-version: 1.0 >Sender: owner-lev@shoko.calarts.edu >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: lev@shoko.calarts.edu >X-UIDL: Q61!!9"f"!:]m"!?a=!! > > > >and others interested in the future of live video art. > >(the ones on the list who get a headache when seeing more then 10 lines per >message might consider to skip to the last three paragraphs) > >+++ > >i am using imag/ine since it's early beginning and i was following nato >since it's appearance, last year i am composing my own solutions in nato >modular. > >i want once loudly and publicly to congratulate and say thanks to tom >demeyer, who developed imag/ine out of his own fingers and to steina vasulka >(no matter what wrong reply button she is pressing on her machine in the >last days) to inspire development of the program and stand for it at steim >during her artistic directorship. > >i am welcoming the fact netoscka is seating at steim in the same seat that >steina had left not such a long time ago. > >and, i want to thank to netoscka and nato developers for an incredible >environment in which i can test more relations and combinations of whatever >moving image, processed in relation to sound, meta - calculations or >interfaces i could "imag/ine" before. > >when imag/ine beta version was presented at steim in december 1996 being >controlled by steina playing her midi violin, i was seating two meters from >her with a task to change between different presets. it was a necessary >help, since the program was not yet incorporating what is called "display >states" nowadays. and guess what, i had developed simple patches in max, >just to switch on the fly some settings which steina wanted to pass through >during her performance. no matter what wishes i had at that time, tom's >answer was straight: i want imag/ine to fully occupy the processor of the >machine on which it is running. i want to squeeze out the most for video >processing and what is needed for live control. if you want more, use >another computer or whatever other device you prefer. > >at that time the fastest mac you could find was running 120 mghz 604e >processor, 150 and 180 were just coming out. and one of the most over - >hyped words that you can hear today - "veejee" was yet to be invented. > >five years later, with nato modular, theoretically you could run a universe >of tasks: draw vector graphic, travel some 3d spaces, analyse and interpret >video and audio input, buffer video and sound on the fly and process it back >under midi commands, remixing media files streamed from internet and serve >them back at the same time... but in reality, on one machine, when only >processing video in three layers, you will not get much more then 320x240 at >12,5 frames per second on your g4 in 2002. not true? we were doing the same >in 1997 in imag/ine, but in 16 bit resolution. today it can run in millions >of colours, but think before twice what "offscreen.grafport.(re)size" means >in nato, and better switch it to half for all the objects that listen to >this command (160x120 pixels in this case). you COULD run so much more of >the rest. still, you better connect more machines to get it in reality, or >in what we call by a wrong and miss - interpreted word "real time". > >i can't state there would be no nato without imag/ine. but i can state i >would not use nato today to sample a dancer live to display her back >processed on the same stage where she is dancing, doing so from one machine >which i control as an instrument. i will choose imag/ine in this case, cause >it is optimised for doing right this. > >let us make one thing clear once forever on this list. imag/ine and nato are >in no way concurrent pieces of code. the first is an application specialised >to perform as an instrument very analogue to what lisa is doing on the sound >level (live sampling and on the fly interpretation captured material), the >second is a multipurpose environment which is opening alternative access, >modulations and variations to all the layers of quicktime, embedded in max >environment. true, you can come very close when you would try to build a >copy of what imag/ine does in nato, even though it does not make such a >sense - but still - can you get several simultaneous outputs from the same >242.buffer? the answer is no at the present. and indeed, such a question >should never bother someone who is not interested in keying two images with >the third one all of them being just six frames apart of what had just been >captured trough the video camera. (and please, don't suggest me to do the >same in the 242.buffer2 ... > >all this writing i am willing to compose for one reason. neue generat!e >needs to know the history of alternative moving images as much as the old >generation of pioneers has to brake the fears and start exchanging their >knowledge louder and with the broader access to their materials. and, when >always too small community of people in this world, interested in creating >music and moving images for something more then just entertainment >show-business or political propaganda, will not grasp with each other in >more open way - then forget max/msp/nato/supercolider/lisa/imag/ine running >your double g5 2ghz on osx 11 - but right there, right at that time indeed >it could be running in parallel on one machine (or on an network streaming >media files via firewire). if i was talking for six years into the past, >don't think i am foreseeing more then three years in the future with this >trivial announcement. > >it makes me sad when i guess it will take more years to get steina and >netoscka seating at the same table laughing to their past misunderstandings >then it will take apple and motorola (well, this one could sink in the >meanwhile, probably it will be ibm then) to put on a table the machine and >system mentioned above. > >it is a too small world of artistic vision nowadays and too limited human >resources to produce some more sensitive reality but the brutal consumerism >we are sinking in. > >"we" can not afford to play art generation games (like some writers in 19 >century or composers in 18 century to push on the "progress") without paying >the price with the darker future then the one which is about to come anyway. > >"we" want it all optimised and all running on system "five minutes past >twelve". and then, once on unix, "we" know what letter it is only missing in >the rebus made out of this word. > > > >also sprach zarafrustra. > > > >marko kosnik > >-- ><march@kud-fp.si> >http://www.iflugs.hdk-berlin.de/emi > > _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold