Burningman

Greetings all, I just returned from Burningman (www.burningman.org) in the
Nevada Desert and came away very impressed and expanded by the entire
experience, at least the first 2 days when the big crowds hadn't arrived yet
and the artists were still busy setting up.

I am fairly new to this list, this being my second post, but I would like to
start working right away on a net art type project for next year, these
projects naturally being very under-represented in the middle of the desert.
I did manage to find someone (not affiliated with the organizers) with an
Internet satellite connection (www.democracycaravan.org) and he gave me the
info on getting set up myself.

I will start working on acquiring equipment and setting up but need help on
the creative end. I am posting here so that someone may direct me to the
appropriate list or organization and/or may be interested in talking with me
directly about this.

I have some trepidation about Burningman since there are many potential
pitfalls that could ruin the experience, but I am setting a goal of trying to
do something next year.

I will share one project I enjoyed experiencing:
Mona Lisa – A 6 foot high pole with a single row of RGB LED's representing
one scan line of a video output. An image of the Mona Lisa is output to the
pole one scan line at a time. You don't see anything except white until you
turn your head. The motion of your eyes across the pole paints a picture of
the Mona Lisa on back of your eyes very briefly. When I first approached the
project I thought I might be hallucinating the image of the Mona Lisa. I took
me a few seconds to realize what was happening.


thx
Michael Watson
www.eleanorrigby.net