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KEYNOTE
EXPERIENCE
Avatecture: Merging Virtual and Physical Worlds
Mike Heim, Art
Center College of Design, Pasadena
queenbee:
Mike Heim of the Art Center College of Design has joined us to lead you
off to another and evocative dimension
ommm: thanks, queenbee
Vetunimi1: ooo!
topcat: yay Mike!
ommm: are we ready to roll?
ommm: hi Vet
omar: i suppose what it is is something like the web: a constantly evolving
entity, and i think you're right on one level with student exhibits P
"Timaeus2": All ready!
Vetunimi1: ommm hi
ommm: how this world Sci-C has grown! ommm: this rich environment!
ommm: we are now going into a black hole...
ommm: a reduction of values
"Timaeus2": Great projects going on in this world!
Vetunimi: hi ommm
ommm: we are going to accd world
ommm: for a special "experiment"
"Timaeus2": sounds ominous...
ommm: please enter ACCD world in the next couple minutes
"Timaeus2": I can't resist
ommm: we will begin the experiment in a couple minutes
Immigration Officer: Welcome to the CyberForum from Art Center College
of Design. Please use 1st person view (Home key) for Quantum Avatars Effect
vr: vere do vee go, eh?
Mauz: oops i clicked
Vetunimi1: O my topcat: home sweet home
Vetunimi1: *looks at topcats home dling lol
queenbee: awsome as always
topcat: oh yes
Mauz: weird church bells
vr: i luv this place
spans1: The wirey and the dense
teukros: i like that the wirey and the dense
burp: i topcat: this is looking cool now in version 3...
Roberto: nice bells !!!
Mauz: oh what's the difference in 3?
"Timaeus2": queenbee, are you going to speak?
Vetunimi1: <- needs an extra GHz lol
topcat: it was a different color before, too flat
queenbee: nope :-) this is mike's show
Brainstorm: this Cyber Art !
Roberto: Hi padriac !
queenbee: indeed
"Timaeus2": Looking forward to the next speaker...
Vetunimi1: my av keeps blinking
"Nsae Comp": no fat av's here?
Vetunimi1: quantum effects?
queenbee: try it out guys, move away from gz then click on the white megaphone
and see what happens!
Vetunimi1: Roberto - how many more times lol
Roberto: hehehehe
Vetunimi1: heh
"Bill P": Is Mike here?
jitterbug: this is very disorienting.
spans1: who's responsible?
ommm: yes, disorienting
Vetunimi1:
queenbee: just seems to be a tport?
Mauz: mind tricks
ommm: who's in charge here?
ommm: what's happening?
"Timaeus2": but beautiful...
ommm: how many angels can stand on the head of a pin?
Mauz: ;)
"lope": what's happening here?
Vetunimi1: <- prefers the void ommm: that's our first theme roberto cuccu:
mm ommm: today we talk about ommm: Quantum Avatars vr: k Vetunimi1:
are you uncertain about that ommm? lol coach: can fit coach: in one place
coach: at one time?
ommm: How many (quantum?) can fit
coach: we can experiment and look
coach: at the strange quality of avatar space
coach: by re-entering this world
Vetunimi1: cyberspace has no physcial limits ommm
coach: and then looking at the facing point where
coach: avatars (how many can you count?) look at you
coach: as you stand on the same spot as (how many?) other avatars
Vetunimi1: does it have any physcial properties?
ommm: just as I have bifurcated into two (thanks, coach!)
Daph Knee: (to coach) ahhh But we are not all angels. :o)
ommm: so too you can reverse spatial difference and become
ommm: OOOONNNNEEEEE
"lope": -+___________________-----------------------------+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Vetunimi1: if not then quantum effects are merely simulated
coach: please leave and re-enter ACCD world
coach: stand for two minutes at ground zero coach: then click on the white
walls
coach: to stand in the Watching Spot
coach: Please use Gray or Ionian avatars
coach: otherwise you will be a blank pyramid
coach: and we can't see you
Vetunimi1: one can simulate impossible worlds too...
vr: 2 minits,eh?
coach: Please go to Avatars menu and choose Gray or Ioanian
Vetunimi1: as long as they are computable
spans1: is it two minutes yet?
spans1: tell us what you see (in detail)
topcat: let's say yes it is
spans1: Are we there yet?
coach: yes, we are in the Black Hole
spans1: The mouth of the horn
ommm: okay, have you seen Quantum Avatars?
Vetunimi: eer
ommm: Have you answered the Basic Question?
vr: depends on what u mean by quantum avs
spans1: all are one
ommm: How many avs in avatar space?
Vetunimi: yes i agree with vr
Vetunimi1: who cares ommm?
Roberto: still 1 min
matix: sine
Vetunimi: one
vr: i have in in many av piles in many worlds
ommm: this is a very peculiar space
Vetunimi1: lets say aleph 2 ?
ommm: and today we focus on the peculiarity of avatar
ommm: space
Vetunimi: the best avatar pile of the history
"guest": hello mike bruce damer here
topcat: one: the global brain (he he hehh heh)
vr: this is the best
ommm: yes, we had 37 avatars in one pile up
Vetunimi1: what is vr?
"lope": =========================
vr: best av pile i ever was in:)
Vetunimi: yes ..
Vetunimi1: sheesh is this all we can do with all this? LMAO
Vetunimi: can we do another pile ommm: avatar space has different properties
than physical space Vetunimi1: lol vr: well duh ommm: so the question
of avatecture is
Vetunimi1: such as?.
Brainstorm: 23
spans1: we don't need no crash repairs
Vetunimi: yes
"Timaeus2": can you pull an av towards a spot?
ommm: how can we combine, merge, intersect
Vetunimi1: does cyberspace have ANY properties?
Vetunimi: how do we get out of the pile?
ommm: this space with physical conventional space?
"Timaeus2": are you inhabiting my body ?
vr: now yer gettin somewhere
ommm: how can we enhance conventional architecture with avatecture
"Timaeus2": Can I get away?
vr: u have my full attention
Vetunimi1: we are not in space only TIME
spans1: if you lay all avatars end to end could they stretch around the
world?
ommm: how can the two spaces - with there different properties -
ommm: interact, interplay, interchange?
Vetunimi: is this a local effect?
Vetunimi1: we need browsers that allow parallel speech
ommm: we play here using the metaphor of physical space
Vetunimi1: yes
Vetunimi: if i click on white walls ..to get the one quantus..is ithat
a local action?
roberto cuccu: This interplay is happening by random, not by conscious
will
ommm: but really, we defy physical space with Quantum Avatars
Vetunimi1: this is too linear
"Timaeus2": It does have a creepy component, but I can tell the intention
is benign, so its a bit pleasurable.
Mauz: my avatar is already stretched across Atlantic
vr: well teleport defies space 2
Vetunimi1: lol
Vetunimi1: *snips Mauz's av
"Timaeus2": I think I get it - nice art
ommm: if you re-enter this world now, you will see a strange site
ommm: and sight
Vetunimi1: <-- get's nothing lol
vr: imm baaaack
Vetunimi: yes i didn't get the strange site
Vetunimi1: some music would be nice?
vr: where is my strange site
ommm: let's see if we can all stand on the exact same spot
"Timaeus2": same sight upon reentering
ommm: everyone click on the white walls
vr: did we not just do that?
Mauz: very weird music here if you just shift out of that tube
Vetunimi1: there is no "spot" ommm
Vetunimi: clicked
ommm: haha
Vetunimi1: *turns off mp3 player
"Timaeus2": third person gives a god view
"Timaeus2": I meant good
"lope": careful...that tickles
Vetunimi: i am trapped
teukros: somebody groped me
matix: ok but stop the bells
topcat: god view is apt too
"Timaeus2": Only thing missing is bad breath...
Vetunimi1: lol
click: is anyone feeling claustrophobic?
Mountain Myst: yes
click :))
"Timaeus2": Now if we could just do something really great together.
Vetunimi: i didn't eat garlic..
topcat: I like how sometimes someone's head is so close they look like
they're wearing a stetson
vr: how is this different from what we did before
Big Al: you're on my foot
"Timaeus2": Like solve a problem or accomplish a task...or maybe we already
have
"Urs": How many angels are there
teukros: that's my foot not your foot jitterbug: sharing headspace.
Vetunimi: it's my foot not an angel
"lope": How about some sort of primitive 'call and response' dance?
ommm: we are in The Black Hole
Vetunimi: yes
vr: explain
ommm: this is the ritual called Quantum Avatars
roberto cuccu: It seems a sorto of kaleidoscope
Vetunimi1: thank god for that ommm lol
"Timaeus2": could we exchange contact information sometime?
teukros: it's a swarm of one
ommm: we are seeking to understand and then project our avatar space
out
ommm: into the physical world but
roberto cuccu: aggregations ruled by chance
vr: spin keeps any two quantum objects apart
ommm: we feel trapped
"lope": Emotionally I feel so...limited.
ommm: and don't know how to make the connection
Vetunimi1: <-- is seeking a glass to pour a drink into
Vetunimi: random avatars
Vetunimi: randommm
Brainstorm: to put GaGa into a cyberspace world
topcat: This looks like a clyfford Still painting
Vetunimi1: is cyberspace changed at the interface with real space?
Vetunimi: radios brain?
topcat: or Franz Kline
ommm: haha
teukros: are we a blood clot?
Vetunimi1: do quantum effects propogate across the interface?
ommm: does everyone see the yellow ball and the strange thingie next
to it (looks like wires)
Vetunimi1: or is it just my ISP?
Vetunimi: i got lost for a moment!
Mountain Myst: aaghhhhhh I keep clicking accidently and keep ending up
back in the claustrophobic tunnel :((
ommm: blue wires
Vetunimi1: lmao
Vetunimi: i saw ..rome wasn't built in one day
"bobbyz": no wires or dot
Vetunimi1: true
ommm: we are going to leap worlds in a moment
Vetunimi1: was it built?
ommm: so please pay attention
"Maria": i´m lost in this world!
ommm: how to make the jump
ommm: we move now into another experimental space
"guest": get pix of this
ommm: for a Quantum Avatars experience
Vetunimi: this black hole for random avatars makes humas talkative and
friendly
Vetunimi: they should use it for therapy
ommm: that will make you think about how to get out - extend and expand
- avatar space
Vetunimi1: yes maybe that IS a property teukros: true vetunimi
Vetunimi1: we are using it for therapy
ommm: please say YAAY if you see the blue wires hanging here new ground
zero
Vetunimi: then they say that vets swear..
ommm: if you do not see the wirey thing, then re-enter ACCD and look
up a little
"bobbyz": now there is a yellow dot, no blue wires yet
burp: yaay
Jeff Young: yaay
teukros: that's 10 percent
jitterbug: naa
vr: i c no blue wires, wher?
ommm: the blue wirey will take you to another world experience
teukros: a blue nest
ommm: when you click on it
ommm: yes, a blue nest
Mountain Myst: go back out and come in to ACCD again vr..... then look
up a little
Vetunimi: yaay vr: by the yellow ball?
matix: yaay
Vetunimi: you mean the wire blue ball?
Mountain Myst: yes
ommm: okay, we are no;w going to click on the blue ball
teukros: yes by the yellow orb
Vetunimi: the hyperlink to rome wasn't built in one day?
ommm: and in a few minutes we will share an
Vetunimi1: <-- detaches mind from av
ommm: experience of Avatrapment
Vetunimi: why yaay and not only yay
teukros: it sounds better
ommm: yes, Quantum Avatars and Avatrapment force us to think about
Avatecture
vr: this *rocks*
topcat: it is also fun to stand outside and watch ppl bouncce
around
"Urs": good laugh Katy. Thats what I thought teukros: this is the best
katy: why dont I collide with the wire frame ?
vr: make a laser from avs!
topcat:
mebbe you wre lucky. try it again
Vetunimi: hi
teukros: I MADE IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH
vr: i cant see the wires anymore
Mountain Myst: dadgummit
roberto cuccu: blue moon
katy: whatever this thing is - I like it!
Vetunimi: eccoci
Vetunimi: cool
Vetunimi: this is cool if yo uadd a backdrop would be even better
teukros: no the backdrop would make it too understandable
topcat: other things are happening here too
teukros: in ground world terms
Vetunimi: a good backdrop could give vertigo
vr: wish it did not wink outwhen u get too far away
teukros: one of the best things is the clumping of black avatars here
teukros: it's even better than before
teukros: i've been through this space on my own
teukros: but it's much better when it's well populated
topcat: I love these shadow figures...it's like balinese puppets
Vetunimi: aagh
Mauz: bunny head is a bit laggy
"Timaeus2": Shadow play!
topcat: yeah! topcat: shadow boxing...can we karate?
vr: this thing is big!
topcat: where are you Tim?
"Timaeus2": I'm in Ohio topcat, and you?
"Timaeus2": Are you enjoying this?
topcat: no I meant here, I'm in Culver city ca "Timaeus2": oh - 6n, 8w
in the air topcat: yes sure. roberto cuccu: ok I think I'll call it a
day. Night everybody
spans1: There are so many beautiful and interesting objects and subjects.
Great work people.
vr: nite topcat: we should do karate together because tai chi was also
called shadow boxing: a term for martial arts!
Mauz: oh this was the after-conference cocktail party?
coach: how's everybody?
click: great coach
vr: ye-haaah!
coach: good spans1: plenty of bubbles, if not 'bubbly'
coach: now you've see another side of Quantum Avatars: Avatrapment
Jeff Young: 4
coach: we'd like to conclude our session today by returning for
coach: a panel discussion (15 minutes) coach: in ACCD world topcat: lol
teukros coach: where we will reflect on what happened here coach: and
on what "avatecture" might mean..
"Timaeus2": thanks for the tour...very interesting place!
coach: please join me and the panel in ACCD world
"Urs": how
vr: u go, i join
"Timaeus2": You ran an art peice that pulled out avs together...
Brainstorm: The Gaia effect takes places without the identities noticing
it
spans1: did you feel it too?
ommm: okay, good start teukros: new visual sensations of 3d space in
tension with 2d space
topcat: interesting Bstorm. I think that's true
"Timaeus2": Could it be a visualization of how interation brings us closer
together?
"Timaeus2": I meant interaction
ommm: now topcat (Tobey) will deal the first cards about what "avatecture"
might be...please
click: yes
topcat: we tore a hole in the space-time continuum just now
ommm: lol
topcat: and partially it was our psychological investment that did
it
Brainstorm: Avatecture for a postbilogoical human like life ?
topcat: if we didn't believe or feel that we were here in cyberspace
vr: we do that every time we teleport, how was this diff?
topcat: it wouldn't mean anything to us.
topcat: the question of avatecture:
topcat: how to bring together or merge
topcat: the physical and the virtual has a lot to do with what we think
those two disparate terms indicate
"Timaeus2": convergence ommm: yes, go on topcat: if we think we are here,
like rene descartes, perhaps we are!
ommm: explain, you're on a roll vr: distributed subjectivity
topcat: That is one way to merge the gap: craeting psychological experiences
that close the question of location
topcat: We are in two places at once
vr: 3, i am on the phone
topcat: just as there can be more than one of us in one space
topcat: hmm
topcat: Next: information architecture as per chad's discussion in sciCenter
topcat: if we use online info and 'real' info as a merged resource
like inECollegE that's a merger
spans1: I think its a metaphor for convincing yourself your in love
topcat: of the two types of spaces. i think this is a lesser argument,
but nonetheless interesting.
spans1: we know where that leads ommm: please connect this for those who
didn't hear Chad topcat: Now my favorite point: Brainstorm: Mike Heim
ommm: go, topcat, go
topcat: I think avatecture is really about building a new sense of public
space topcat: one that is in cyberspace, but which effects us in real
space
"Timaeus2": Chad's discussion was of a project to get high school studentsinto
contact with College students, wasn't it?
topcat: This remote bi-location and participation is what the preceding
two points are about too
topcat: when we use all our psychological resources and information architecture
to make real effects in our world around us
topcat: That is avatecture!
topcat: Thank you ommm: bravo!
ommm: brava!
"Timaeus2": Bravissimo
Brainstorm: bravissimo
vr: *most* impressive- thank you
ommm: yes, we don't have to be trapped in avatar space
Brainstorm: more input !
vr: i feel the opposite of trapped
ommm: it can become a new way to participate and extend meaning into
physical spaces
topcat: exactly
spans1: If my hands didn't pass through each other I'd be clapping
topcat: lol
ommm: hehe
vr: do it w 1 hand
ommm: we need to cogitate on making these avatar spaces effective
ommm: through their participatory fun and
"Urs": and listen to what it sounds like!!!
click: exactly - to use our experiences in virtual space to redifine notions
of architecture : duration, dynamism, form
ommm: through their ability to convey meaning experientially
topcat: be here now!
ommm: yes, experience is the key: participatory experience: ritual
ommm: I hope you all enjoyed our two rituals today:
vr: parrallel subjectivity, personality cloning via agebts topcat: awareness
of where you are, what you are doing and as and with whom!
vr: uh agents
ommm: Quantum Avatars and Avatrapment
"Timaeus2": Who are you guys, and how did you get these ideas? topcat:
cool baby! topcat: lol "Timaeus2": Wow. topcat: we think therefore we
are!
"Timaeus2": Can ommm and topcat share theri email addresses?
"Urs": Ommm, I should like to come back here, how?
ommm: we experience, so we remember
Vetunimi1: topcat: we are at ArtCenter College of design and Mike is our
teacher
ommm: thank you, folks, for your adventuresome spirit
Vetunimi1: <-- remembers very lil
ommm: and your jump into black holes where you never know
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