abstractmachine

• Machine: Remap
• Concept+Development: Douglas Edric Stanley
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Just in time for the war, a mapping program that’ll give you real-time updates on the White House’s geographical expansion program.

Conference: “programme, son et langage” Date: 12 March 2003 Location: University of Paris 8 Speakers, Anne Sedes (Paris 8-Music), Daniel Pinkas (philosopher, HEAA, Geneva), Fabien Vandamme (doctoral student), Valérie Villaume (DEA student), Jean-Michel Géridan (DEA student), Douglas Edric Stanley (doctoral student, Ecole supérieure d’art d’Aix-en-Provence)

I will be giving a presentation of my research at a two-day conference at the Unviersity of Paris 8. I will be speaking in the afternoon presentations subtitled “program, sound, and langauge”.

• Conference: Machines concrètes
• Speaker: Douglas Edric Stanley
• Location: L’école nationale supérieure des arts décoratives, Paris
• Date: 27 February, 2003

I was invited to discuss my work this week at the National Design School (ENSAD) in Paris. I spoke of my research in algorithmic cinema, robotics, and programming in an artistic context. I showed a lot of work, including Object Machine and Trane, both of which got a good reaction.

I also finished a workshop at the end of the week. We explored collective interactions. The workshop was a great success, some very interesting objects and programs were developed. To give just a few examples: Annelore Schneider designed a 3D interactive cityscape where the contours of the buildings themselves only became visible as users on the internet added textures to the buildings; Emilie Pitoiset worked on two projects, one of them was a webradio project that she intends to develop for her diploma; and one of the funniest projects was Mariina Bakic’s collective text editor, perhaps the tiniest wiki ever built — anyone from the Internet could change a collective text made up of one single black character on a while background. As the text exists in real-time, people could fight back and forth with each other, essentially chatting, but in the end only the last character typed would have the final word. Very cool.