Compositions in Reality
by Glyph Graves
Opens Sunday August 7 at 10 AM
Live Mixed Reality Performance Art at 10:30 AM
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Surl to Art Screamer
In his latest exhibit, Compositions in Reality, Glyph Graves continues his exploration of mixed reality art. In previous work he's pioneered the use of real-world data systems to power virtual creations of ethereal beauty that seem to act with a mind of their own. These art objects are scripted to receive real-world data feeds, such as from weather and lake buoys, and behave in response to the changing natural world conditions with virtual world movement, sound, and texture changes.
As part of Compositions in Reality Glyph creates the data stream in real-time using Kinect by XBox. Kinect is a gaming device that uses motion sensors instead of hand-held controllers. Glyph programmed the software to capture movement and depth of field, and translates these readings into a real-time data feed that he streams in-world. During his performance Glyph will use his physical body to interactively control 3D virtual objects. Glyph intends to re-create his own face using the Kinect to control prims on the Art Screamer sim in Second Life. This is a real-time art performance piece, so you must be present at 10:30am SLT Sunday August 7th to see it in action.
Even if you cannot attend Glyph's performance, I strongly encourage you to visit Art Screamer. All of the beautiful objects were created and scripted by Glyph Graves using real world data to drive movement and sounds to create innovative virtual art that interacts with you as you explore. The island is full of elegant art and scripting, including the forest of rivers - trees with color and sound, the Magnetosphere, Lake Mendota, Polyp Ball Nova, Convoluteda, and more. Compositions in Reality is virtual art at its very best.
While many of us have been pre-occupied with virtual identity lately, this work seems to obliterate the boundary between real and virtual. One can see the future in the "face of reality" - virtual is just another color in the artist's palette, another tool in the shed. How long before the larger art world concedes the expanding palette, forged by this quickly-fading boundary?
Visit Art Screamers for our opening this Sunday beginning at 10am. Don't miss Glyph's demonstration of his Kinect driven performance art at 10:30am.
Visit Art Screamers for our opening this Sunday beginning at 10am. Don't miss Glyph's demonstration of his Kinect driven performance art at 10:30am.
3 comments:
Thanks Chestnut, good write up.
Now that Microsoft has released the SDK for the PC and libfreenect drivers hack work well for the mac and linux the xbox bit no longer applies. One can thank the open source libreenect community for pushing microsoft into releasing its sdk.
Glyph's work with these technologies is inspiring, and should be much more widely acknowledged for its potential impact on all aspects of virtual life.
Keep 'em coming, Glyph, fun projects all!
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