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The word cyberspace is known now as an artword, its born from the word cyber (a shortform from the english word cybernetic that again comes from the greek word „kybernetike“; „The art of navigate“ and the word „space“. On the worldfamous Macy-Conferences in the years 1946 till 1953 cybernetik was something of high interest. Wellknown and famous scientists as Alan Turing, John von Neumann and Heinz von Foerster started here from scratch the modern computertechnics and the programm-architecture, today an example for cyberspace. The real cyberspace was opened by Secondlife. So you speak of web 3-D or so called metaverses. The metavereses are internet-based virtual time-space-infrastructures. The miracle that we are experiencing today: the cyberspace, the dematerialized virtual time-space, the worldwide webbed society. where we „surf around „with lightspeed. An artist that is NOT using this virtual universe as a challenge and a goal doesnt deserve the name „ avantgarde“
This e-book dedicated to the pioneer of cybernetic art Nicolas Schöffer. He was one of the most important artists of the second half of twentieth century. Father of cybernetic art, thus of so-called „interactivity“, he wanted to bring a prospective and non-backward-looking vision of art, which could help mankind to develop itself with a good hold on true creative and liberating possibilities of our times.
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carp 1 cybernetic art research project SL : 2007.11.01- 2007.11.31
text: josina burgess edited by velazquez bonetto created by the carp team: caravaggio bonetto velazquez bonetto josina burgess nnoiz papp juria yoshikawa theevil chemistry
(naomi devil) (lรกszlรณ รถrdรถgh diabolus) (jose den burger) (tobias becker) (lance shields) (MANAX)
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The aiming of the Project is: To announce new SL possibilities. Progam starting at 2007-11-01 ending at 2007-11-31 Phase 1: Creation 1.a. Every participant will select the for him or her interesting SL Audiovisual components. Juria Yoshikawa : 1. solid/flexi/sensor/collision/sound combination 2. flexi/variable rotation/texture change Caravaggio Bonetto: 1. textur animation/sensor/sound combination 2. effect networking Josina Burgess: 1. prim phisical properties 2. primtorture nnoiz Papp: 1. effect networking/sensor/sound Velazquez Bonetto: 1. solid/flexi/groupped prim communication/sound 1.b.Identification of the Research-Goals and Targets. The important SLS Mechanismes will be explained.
1.c.Experimantal Phase. New audivisual Effects will tried out, new scripts will be written. 1.d.Every Participant will develop and build in the „Idea Tree“ his or her ideas with help of the new written scripts Phase 2: Publication of the Outcome. 2.a. 1 week Exhibition of worked out Exponents. 2.b. An Electronic Book (PDF) will be published of this Project. 2.c. An Audivisual Component and Script-Collection of the worked out outcomes will be given to the Participants. How we Work: 1. Open communication, co-laboration and co-operation 2. Open idea and know-how exchange 3. Open audiovisual component and script exchange Rules: 1. There are no rules. Inovation is not bind to any rules. 2. Out of the first rule there are no further rules. Limits: 2000 prim.
carp Carp 1 vernissage 2007 11 24 Location: Virtual Art Space Diabolus (benvolio) Owner: Josina Burgess, Velazquez Bonetto & Caravaggio Bonetto Land : 11608 qm Prim : 2808 Website: www.gallery-diabolus.com
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caravaggio bonetto 9.The first SL solo exhibition 2007
Name: Naomi Devil Lives and studies in: Budapest, Stuttgart, Wien E-mail: naomidevil@naomidevil.com www.naomidevil.com Studies: 2002-2003-2006: Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg 2004-2007: Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Kontextuelle Malerei: prof. Muntean/Rosenblum prof. Elke Krystufek prof. Angela Hans Schreil 2006-7: Technisches Universität Wien Architecture BA Solo exhibitions: 1.Gallery Tetõ: The Digital Oil, 2004,Budapest 2.Gallery Mucius, The PINKFERNO, 2005, Budapest 3.Gallery Nagyhàzy, Happy Birthday, 2005, Budapest 4.Galery Art Position, 2005, Wien 5.MOYA (Museum Of Young Art), Einzelaustellung Naomi Devil, 2005-2006, Wien 6.Gallery Mucius, DOWNLOAD::MEDIA, 2006, Budapest 7.Hungaryan Cultural Center Prague,SACE WARP, 2007, Prague 8.Gallery Bast-Art,Du bist was du siehst (You are what you se), Wien, 2007
Group exhibitions: 1.The closing exhibition of prof. Caroline Broadhead‘s class, 2002, Salzburg 2.The closing exhibition of prof. Rivka Rinn‘class, 2003, Salzburg 3.Gallery Vertigo: The Vertigo Chronicle, 2003-2004, Canada 4.Artshole / Vinopolis: Art In MIND Part 4, 2004,London 5.Gallery Zsidró: Zsuzsa Gesztelyi Nagy‘s, Márta Kucsora‘s, Naomi Devil‘s and Melitta Németh‘s paintings , 2004, Budapest 6.Mucius Gallery Coffee: 9 artists of Gallery Mucius, 2004, Budapest 7.Selfportait UK 14-19 2005 Touring exhibition: Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Manchester Art Gallery, National Museum & Gallery Cardiff, Peterborough Digital Arts Museum & Gallery, The New Art Gallery Walsall, National Portrait Gallery London, London Underground 8.Gallery Mucius, Budapest, 2005 A könyv utóélete 9.Art Position 2005, Ottakringer Brauerei, Wien 10.II. Keruleti Alkotok Tarlata 2005, Budapest (Exhibition of the artists from the 2. district) 11.MOYA (Museum Of Young Art)- New Romantics- from 2005 August- Wien 12.IZD Tower Vienna- Devil, Garcia Pozo, 2005 13.With Adrien Kiss and Istvan Szanto, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Projektraum, 2005, Wien 14.Mucius & Diabolus Contemporary Fine Art Gallery (László Fehér, András Halász, András Koncz, Mucius, Naomi Devil, István Orosz), 2006, Budapest 15.Exhibition Room of Ernst Museum Budapest: Dorottya Galeria, Dorottya Open Show, 2006 JUne 6-10., Budapest 16.II. Keruleti Alkotok Tarlata 2006, Budapest (Exhibition of the artists from the 2. district) 17.Galerie Exner: Junge Sommer 2006, Wien 18.Art Fair KÖLN 2007 19.Öszi tárlat Köszeg 2007
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carp RL Name: László Ördögh Diabolus What motivates a designer, human engineer and virtual reality software developer to go to Second Life and getting involved in this incredible world? Playfulness, the happy homo ludens? Maybe that too. But I have much more serious motivations: 1: - What I enjoy in SL is the pioneer spirit that rules in this world. I my daily real life working with industrial virtual reality is also pioneering. But in RL you cannot make everything what you could imagine in your fantasy. There the discussion goes about much money, resources, management, hierarchy, organisation, economical efficiency and so on, not really about things that really matter. SL is a dematerialised world with a high degree of abstraction to realize all possible and impossible associations . It’s the perfect playground, for thinking „bioavatars“, to experiment with substantial subjects without the material consequences. 2: - I started in SL with the idea to build a Avatar Museum there, had to be there because SL is the Future and its useless to stay in the past being busy with that. 3: - The most valuable what I got from SL are the good friends I have there: Josina the best Muse ever and the most reliable Partner in all the adventures, Caravaggio, Jan, Juria, Noizz, Terri, Whyzzer, Manax and all the others in my friends list. 4: - An Avatar in SL is the real metacommunication. Behind every avatar there is people and the avatars are very able to present or show their mentality and norms. 5: - SL is a concept for creative competence, the ideal platform to research and experiment art of the future. 6: - SL is also in the Social Surroundings with simple rules and a Global Community without any borders. Maybe an example for our RL community. Short RL bio: Research and development: Human Engineering Simulation, Industrial Avatars (1981-1988 OMFB IFTI) (1989-1998 IST GmbH. ) Human Symulation Technology Project DFKI German Research Center for Artiffical Intelligence (19992002). Senior Software Developer: Virtual Reality Industrial Avatars (ICIDO GmbH 2002-) Experience in: Industrial design, graphical design, corporate design, system design and organisation, software development and programming. Languages: C++, LSL Special skills: Traditional Art Technics Computer Graphics 3D Visualising & Special Effects+ Computer Aided Design CAD Engeneering Data Management (EDM) in Intranet and Internet environment. Advanced Information Technology (AIT) (Digital Mock-Up) Ergonomics Virtual Reality & Simulation Technology Design and manufacturing of medical appliances Design of comunication systems (2000-2001)
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carp Back & white synesthesia SL innstallation with 16 channel sound system concept, scripting & realisation: velazquez bonetto sound design: nnoiz papp solid/flexi idea: juria yoshikawa 2. version
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carp The short-sounds however have 2 great abilities: The loudness of the sound sources are able to play distancereliable. At the other hand its possible to use them in LSL in as many events you need.
THE CARP MATRIX Most of the Audiovisual Effects in SL are exist from random-generated and/or unsynchronised sequenzes, or based on prim/envirpnment- events or avatar-signals through sensors or collision. In LSL there is one useful function. It is possible to run more LSL scripts in combination in one task (prim content). The outcome is an integrated totaleffect for one prim. This method is easy to run and gives a fast building possibility. A collection of well selected on each other-scripts. All different but well defined and giving each a great effect are also usable in combination and is of value for the working method. The script combinations sometimes produce totally unexpected but fantastic effects. The CARP Matrix is a collection of “put into the content and forget� script modules who are easy to use in combination.
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carp Name: José den Burger. SL name: Josina Burgess José studied at the Famous Artists Schools of America and graduated in illustration, advertisement,free painting and drawing. She studied under Ben Stahl, Al Parker, Jon Witcomb, Fred Ludekens, Peter Helck, got her papers in 1967 and then decided to become a ...........singer! As a singer she worked successfully in the Netherlands especially in the 70ties (was the first female protestsinger) . She made several albums , was a member of the Knokke Songfestival Team and had her own radio and personality show on the Dutch Television. She worked with the well known Ted de Braak in all Dutch Theaters and was a guest in many radio and television shows. She traveled around the world and performed in the Intercontinental Hotels, on cruiseships and in many international television shows. In Spain she was appearing for 4 years on Spanish television and in the years after that she became the leading lady of the well known close-harmony trio The New Shepherds and after that of Close Encounter were she was leader of her own 7 mans band. made several albums again and performed on dutch radio and television. During all these years of traveling she continued painting and drawing and was inspired by the countries she visited. The work has many facets, just like a human has many sides in his or her personality. Feelings and impressions, sometimes subtile, but also powerful and above all the use of bright colors are specific for her art. Non-figurative, abstract as well as figurative paintings, explosions of color, gold and bronze, memories and feelings are telling their story. In the end of 2006 I started Secondlife, after seeing something about it on the Dutch television, I was really interested to find out what happened there with art. Found that there were many galleries interested to exhibit my art and started from there. But just showing images of my real life paintings was not enough and I started to search for new challenges. So I went into to making dresses using the images of my real paintings as textures on them and called them “Wearable Art”. It was an immediately success and after I met Velazques Bonetto I started to experiment more with different textures we made from images of projects in SL as well as images or designs we made specially for the dresses or other projects. From Velazques I learned how to use scripts and started to animate the dresses as well. Going from there I went into building sculptures and installations using scripts in an ”innocent” way and some times the effects were amazing. It has my total interest now and I love the new challenges and possibilities to create a total NEW ART that never existed before elsewhere. www.josedenburger.artolive.nl
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When I started on Secondlife, exhibiting my paintings there, I of course also went to openings of other exhibitions in different other Galleries. To expand my network and to see how other artists worked. SL is a great place to see a lot of art in a short time and that works inspiring as well. On one of these occasions I went to the Cetus District where many small and bigger Galleries are gathered and saw there works of Caravaggio Bonetto and her Father Velazques Bonetto. I spoke a while with Velazques and on a later occasion when I saw him again he asked me if he could make a photograph of me because he was making a study of different avatars in SL. In those
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carp idea was to make a total new SL “life” New scripts were written by Velazques and we experimented with looks and moves. The scripts also worked in other ways well. Objects and Sculptures were build and using different scripts in just one object showed a great outcome.Using different scripts on my “Strange Cloud” made it intelligent , it started to change shape by itself and is reacting on the avatar that approaches it. The “Dino” that I made needed a way of “walking”so I asked Velazques to write me a script where it would walk like a “harmonica” and yes it worked out so well that the Team could use that script on other projects as well. The Breathing script I asked for also is great to work with, I made a sculpture out of blocks, did put sound and texture change inside and the whole sculpture seems to live and breath and is fantastic to look at. Also the “Breathing Room” with textures I make in Photoshop is wonderful to stand in and let the rotating and sounds work in to you. We are just starting here and the ideas plop in my mind waiting to become alive in SL. No limits and no borders, I can create and experiment freely here and its fantastic to work in a Team like this were all of us have the same drive. Standing at the beginning of something Big, New ART of the Future makes me feel great and happy to be able to participate and almost impatient to see where it will bring us all.
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First I did build a kind of „skeleton“adding many prims close together then from there I started sculpturing it in a shape it looked like some dionsaur type of thing but still abstract. Then I used a cable (engin) texture on them and used totallyclear on the sides to make it more abstract. I got the idea that it would be nice when it would be able to walk like a „harmonica“ and also it should follow an avatar. Velazques invented a script that did the trick and the „Dino“ is very alive and alert now and follows you where you go, slowly but secure, and every part of his „body“follows the other like a „harmonica“. Of course this script brings more ideas and I will use it for sure on other new objects.
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For this Cable Biothope I did build from simple forms a birdlike object and used bitmaps from engine textures on it in yellow and red. Inside a collision script that reacts on commands as #dance and #stop so it can hop and bounce around giving of funny sounds I also added. To have the effect I need 2 objects at least so they go in collision and activate each other. But its very funny to see them dance.
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carp „Breathing Blocks“, With this object I again used the carp matrix prim torture scipt Velasquez made for me, here the texture also was important white and black through each other gaved an extra dimension on the stripes and points, the voxel sensor script makes it possible aagin to walk through and hear sound. Its a nice object with unexpected views of textures inside it I made several snapshots from different angles and got this way totally new textures again
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carp „And then there was light“, for this project I asked Velazques to write me a script that makes the object „breath“ I made a box and hollowed it, then i made it closed and did put he script inside , it worked wanderful, I also used a voxel sensor script with totallyclear texture to make sound come in as well and the possibility to walk thorough the object and let it dissapear before me and come back again, also a collision script so it reacts on the avatar. I chose for thunder and light sounds, also added a rainbox and some mist and the whole thing gives a feeling like standing in a overwhelming nature disaster with sounds and just reacting as i wanted.
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nnoiz Papp (RL name: Tobias Becker) scoremusic-composer / music for animated movies / sound-designer / keyboarder /oboist / 3D / video-installations carp 63 diabolus art space 1980-1986 Musikhochschule Köln (studying music for teaching in schools, oboe and (jazz-)piano) since 1985 ca. 250 musicproductions for german children´s TV (Sendung mit der Maus) since 1982 working as an studiomuscian with oboe (for example Klaus Schulze) and keyboards (since 1984 with computers) in many different styles (from pop to heavy metal with U.D.O. and AXXIS) 10 CD´s productions (4 under the pseudonym „SVENSSON“ - electronic & oboe, 4 archivmusic cd´s for selected sound, Koch-music-library and sonoton) live music with TRIOGLYZERIN, a trio thats playing live with old silent movies in cinemas (http://www.trioglyzerin.de) since 1996different internet activities (quicktime vr - flash - 3d) see the links below.... 2006 live-video-installation at „Wuppertaler Bühnen“, visualizing Nyman´s opera „The man who mistook his wife with a hat“ nnoiz Papp (RL name: Tobias Becker) scoremusic-composer / music for animated movies / with VJ software sound-designer / keyboarder /oboist / 3D / video-installaIn SL since end of may 2007, trying to put the things together..... tions
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SL-related:http://www.nnoiz.com/container/nnoizPapp-media.htm ching in schools, oboe and (jazz-)piano) since 1985 ca. 250 musicproductions for german Internet:http://www.filmmusik.de/tb children´s TV (Sendung mit der Maus) http://www.nnoiz.de since 1982 working as an studiomuscian with oboe (for http://www.krachmaschinen.de example Klaus Schulze) and keyboards (since 1984 with computers) in many different styles (from pop to heavy http://www.filmmusik.de/svensson (oboe&electronic) metal with U.D.O. and AXXIS) http://www.haralds-klang-plantage.de (acoustic&electronic lounge sound) in german...sorry...english version coming 10 CD´s productions (4 under the pseudonym „SVENSSON“ electronic & oboe, 4 archivmusic cd´s for selected soon.... sound, Koch-music-library and sonoton) http://www.darknnoiz.de (dark ambient) live music with TRIOGLYZERIN, a trio thats playing live with old silent movies in cinemas (http://www.trioglyzerin.de) since 1996different internet activities (quicktime vr - flash - 3d) see the links below.... 2006 live-video-installation at „Wuppertaler Bühnen“, visualizing Nyman´s opera „The man who mistook his wife with a hat“ with VJ software In SL since end of may 2007, trying to put the things together.....
SL-related:http://www.nnoiz.com/container/nnoizPappmedia.htm Internet:http://www.filmmusik.de/tb http://www.nnoiz.de http://www.krachmaschinen.de http://www.filmmusik.de/svensson (oboe&electronic) http://www.haralds-klang-plantage.de (acoustic&electronic lounge sound) in german...sorry...english version coming soon.... http://www.darknnoiz.de (dark ambient)
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carp Dwarf choir: I came on a visit to velazquez and he showed me his newest test object. It was an array of spheres, interacting and triggering each other in a specific way. This first idea was from Miulew Takahe and Velazquez. After trigger them by collision they started to move up and down. I got the idea of a dwarf choir - dwarfs singing, going up and down. I told velazquez this idea and we suddenly started... First I had to choose the tuning and recorded the dwarf sounds in my sequenzer. The sound comes out of my Yamaha FS1R synthesizer. The sound control take place over the mod wheel and
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carp Scare crows: The scare crows were the first objects I worked on together with Velazquez. I changed the design at my island ( a little bit postpunk, rusty style with my avatar face inside ) and modified the sounds, the reaction and moving times, so that the scare crows don´t act synchronized. After testing them there and presenting them at the dorkbot event in october I put back a copy to the diabolus gallery.
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After two decades of creative pursuits - ranging from conceptual art, installation, poetry, performance, computer art, animation, photography and digital design - Juria Yoshikawa (a.k.a. Lance Shields, Tokyo-based new media artist and designer) arrived in Second Life in the winter of 2007 looking for a new artistic spark. Rather than bringing in rl artwork, Juria is compelled to use mainly the elements that make up sl itself. A typical Juria Yoshikawa virtual artwork mixes kinetic objects, light sources, animated texture, ambient noise and av animations. She inevitably chooses scales larger than conventional gallery work because she is interested in people experiencing the work in a physical way - flying through them, riding on them and socializing within the art. To Juria virtual art is about freeing oneself up to create in ways she finds impossible in real life. In my real life, I am Lance Shields, a new media artist, creative director, interactive designer and social media specialist. Graduating with a BFA in new media from San Francisco Art Institute in 1992, sculpture and installation are where I started my rl creative career but I became progressively more involved in the digital and interactive. I see Second Life as a return back to my artistic roots yet at the same time combines my newer interests in the phenomenology in the virtual world. Phenomenology is defined as “the reflective study of the essence of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view�. In my commercial life, I am a social media strategist a global company embrace social networking, blogging and Second Life.
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TheEvil Chemistry: Who are you? MANAX: I am me.
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TheEvil Chemistry: Why do you play sl?
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MANAX: I get some sort of sick, twisted enjoyment out of using virtual reality to make myself more busy and neglecting to relax more than it would occour in rl. TheEvil Chemistry: What do you do on sl? MANAX: I usually get myself into a bunch of messes that I can‘t work my way Who out of, TheEvil Chemistry: arethen you? I get banned a few times, then I build something. MANAX: I am me.
TheEvil Chemistry: How many times have you been banned? TheEvil Chemistry: Why do you play sl? MANAX: I get some sort of sick, twisted enjoyment out of
MANAX: Justly, twice. The third time was because I orbited someone who wastotrying griefmore me on my land, because using virtual reality make to myself busy and neglecting to relax more than it would occour in rl. eject wouldn‘t work. Recently, my account broke, and i had to switch over to a fifth one. TheEvil Chemistry: Are you afraid of being banned? MANAX: Not as much as I‘d expect myself to be.
TheEvil Chemistry: What do you do on sl? MANAX: I usually get myself into a bunch of messes that I can‘t work my way out of, then I get banned a few times, then I build something. TheEvil Chemistry: How many times have you been ban-
TheEvil Chemistry: How do you get your ideas for your buildsned? on sl? MANAX: I ask native leprechauns their opinions. TheEvil Chemistry: What is your favorite thing to make in sl?
MANAX: Justly, twice. The third time was because I orbited someone who was trying to grief me on my land, because eject wouldn‘t work. Recently, my account broke, and i had to switch over to a fifth one. TheEvil Chemistry: Are you afraid of being banned?
MANAX: Weapons and vehicles have usually proven the mostMANAX: entertaining. Not as much as I‘d expect myself to be. TheEvil Chemistry: What skills do you have in sl?
TheEvil Chemistry: How do you get your ideas for your builds on sl?
MANAX: I ask native MANAX: Building, mostly. I‘m also a par scripter. I do custom charachters, too,leprechauns obviously. their opinions. TheEvil Chemistry: What is your favorite thing to make in
TheEvil Chemistry: What are the favorite groups you are in? sl?
MANAX: Weapons and vehicles have usually proven the
most entertaining. MANAX: Probably the ones I made, lol. The Robot Comedy Nipple., MEVco, and People Against Negative Gormabs
TheEvil Chemistry: Could you explain those groups to me?
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TheEvil Chemistry: Where do you do that? MANAX: The first two rules indicate that I‘m not supposed to talk about it. TheEvil Chemistry: Do you know any good jokes? MANAX: Yes. TheEvil Chemistry: Why do you wear a staple remover around your neck in real life? MANAX: It requested to be adorned there. TheEvil Chemistry: What do you think your entire life will lead up to? MANAX: Me dying.
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