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Hi ,

can you please check this work?

it contains an animated gif + drag&drop layer + dynamic and interactive images loaded using Google APIs. (body and hair aren't linked images but cell backgrounds; only eyes, mouth and face's shape are "pixel-images")

http://www.zanni.org/portraitofsofiaimber.htm

(then to access the work, please, press the link at the bottom of the page)

I need a check also with osX and ie5+, can you please do it?

THANK YOU !!!

cz

Hi ,

can you please check this work?

it contains an animated gif + drag&drop layer + dynamic and interactive images loaded using Google APIs. (body and hair aren't linked images but cell backgrounds; only eyes, mouth and face's shape are "pixel-images")

http://www.zanni.org/portraitofsofiaimber.htm

(then to access the work, please, press the link at the bottom of the page)

I need a check also with osX and ie5+, can you please do it?

THANK YOU !!!

cz

KeyBorders by Carlo Zanni - 2003

http://www.zanni.org/keyborders.htm

Installed at MACAY, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo De Yucatan, Merida -
Mexico during Intercativa03, Biennial of New Media and Electronic Arts.

KeyBorders is a portrait as "Input Language / Keyboard Layout (IME) ".

KB is an installation with a net component.
KB is based on an application built with Visual Studio .NET.

The application continuosly cycles through the user's input locales and
keyboard layouts, which are normally used to support different
languages/alphabets.
The data submitted by the user is then inserted, via PHP, in a MySql
database, and stored as Unicode characters.
User is invited to type his name, place of birth, place of residence and
dreamland.

Because of the VBScript changes input parameters, the user will have
problems
in typing his data correctly. Probably he'll never be able to write them as
he would. The submitted personal data are stored in a database and
displayed online and in real time as an immigration book**. This immigration
Book can be read also on the web.

**the appearance of the keyborders immigration book's entries depends on which
languages you have installed in your machine. If you have just standard languages
probably the entries will look full of question marks or rectangles
I suggest you to install Cyrillic and Japanese support to obtain a better aesthetic impact.

KeyBorders is a NewNewPortrait. NewNewPortrait (05-13-2001) - that comes
from "the new new thing", the well-known book by Michael Lewis - is a way to
do portraits using temporary mental identities of the user and not only his
physical aspect. NewNewPortraits use "digital footsteps" as email accounts,
web stats, desktop icons, workstation environment settings, cookies, wi-fi
waves and search engines to create personal portraits.

The online entries processed by KeyBorders are personal data inputs
influenced and/or generated by: psychological attitudes, social and
political contexts, economic pressures, language handicaps and social
process of naturalization (forced or intentional).

Please, read this text by Raul Ferrera Blanquet for more info about the
Interactiva03 and KeyBorders main subject.
http://www.zanni.org/keyborders/textraulferrera.htm

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INTERACTIVA 03: http://www.cartodigital.org

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Thank you,
CZ

http://www.zanni.org

Epic Tales by Carlo Zanni - CCA: Glasgow Net Art Commission 2003

http://www.zanni.org/epictales.htm

[Explorer 5+ - Pc or Mac (not osX)]
-you need at least 60-80 seconds to load the new page-

At the same address you can find a description of the work and an interesting text by Francis
Mckee who is curating right now the Scottish pavilion at the Venice
Biennial.

The piece is a kind of "installation".. something immersive... the most important thing is the feeling you receive back.. and of course, being a conceptual work, people need to read a couple of paragraphs to understand it.

Epic Tales is a php based online engine translating and substituting Modern English words with Old English words using a 2500 entries vocabulary taken from the Beowulf manuscript.
Beowulf written in Old English sometime before the tenth century A.D., describes the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century. Beowulf is the oldest surviving epic in British literature.

All the pages are destylized and reformatted using the BeoWulf font loading it online, so without installing it on your machine. (This font has designed following the original Beowulf manuscript)
All the images are processed, transformed in greyscale mode, losing also quality.
here are visualization samples:

1 (cnn.com) : http://www.zanni.org/epic/stills/epic\_still\_1b.GIF
2 (cnn.com) : http://www.zanni.org/epic/stills/epic\_still\_1.GIF

The sound streaming is a really powerful epic war song by yat.kha.

In the end the processed page loses its glamour, its graphic layout, becoming flat.. without emotions.
It looks also as an old manuscript. It's a piece about how the time can change the perspective of our "violence" from "big drama and blood" of our daily news to heroes and epic behaviours of people of the past.
I think there are many ways to look at the piece and the Borges quotation (to read it, select "description" on the work homepage) is a way to underline another point of view: When you don't understand a language you focus your attention to sound and form...

Nobody can read old English I think, but you can easily understand the "main subject" of what you are reading, even if translated and with that strange font.
In the end the web page looks like and old epic book, where you can not see anymore the glam of colors and words but just raw b-n photos and a medieval txt.

I think people should not read the translated text but they should browse those pages as when you open an old book with engravings...
I think all our daily behaviours are in some ways "militaristic" oriented. And above all all gov behaviours are. But everything is hidden by adv and pr campaigns.
Also there is a tradition in educating people in believing in their own innocence, fighting back without caring about why things happened.. a kind of Passive - Aggressive National education.

cz

http://www.zanni.org

Keywords

-Society's Portrait
-Epic vs. Drama - a time based distinction
-Fight to impose your own standards
-Natural Behaviour and Behavioural Needs
-Media coverage Exposure/Affection
-Passive - Aggressive National education
-Daily Post -Traumatic Stress Disorders