dbcinema

dbcinema : http://vispo.com/temp/Google2.htm

this is in progress. this is, like, v 0.1.

you type in a concept top left, press enter, stare, and free associate.

same syntax as google searches. in fact it is a google search.

some interesting concepts:

epistemology
ruins
turing
godel
jenny holzer
joseph kosuth
poetry
visual poetry
visual art
visual music
pamela anderson
proboscis
dali
giger
ian hamilton finlay
eratosthenes
.
.
.

i'm using director to make this. director is pretty good for image
processing and compositing. and advanced google image search will do things
like return just black and white or greyscale images. so these can be used
as masks and also be processed over time. things like that are in the future
for this image engine.

also, as you may know, i like to do interactive audio work. but like visuals
too with them. this piece will eventually be the image engine for some
interactive audio works. you've seen the visual music prevalent on the
screen these days. mostly its music videos or abstract patterns that respond
to amplitude. nice, but i'd like something else. this is v 0.1 of an image
engine for audio works. this can combine the strong abstract dimensions of
what you think of when you think of visual algorithmic art with the
relevantly representational. and it opens into the social/collective in
interesting ways.

also, it frees me up from making pictures in the normal ways. i prefer to
write images. riffing on the google global image database with a few
well-chosen keywords and a lot of 'image display schemas' (there is only one
now: one after another, simplest possible) could generate lots of
significantly different dbcinema pieces.

there's a dowload manager, a media manager, a query manager, and an image
display manager at this point. various other managers to go along with lots
of 'image display schema'. and other things that you normally find in a
browser, like history and so on. would also be nice to be able to edit
pieces. all down the road.

ja
http://vispo.com