Just back from Siggraph conference at LA Convention center and looking back at my Siggraph coverage from 2007...by Joyce Schwarz, editor, Hollywood2020.net. Hope you enjoy this recap!
NO TEA & SYMPATHY FOR ARTIST CAITLIN BERRIGAN -- JUST VIRAL CONFECTIONS & CONVICTIONS
On location at Siggraph 07...San Diego......Forget the Tea & Sympathy, this afternoon I sampled a delicious 'chocolate' viral confection with artist Caitlin Berrigan @ Siggraph's emerging tech art installation area blogged by Joyce [email protected].
Berrigan's 'viral confections' are an amazingly sweet way of reaching out to the community in an activist role to help understand the challenges of Hepatitis C.
Nope that's not this blogger but I did sit down and chat with Caitlin Berrigan and had a fascinating experience checking out her sweet 'viral confections' chocolate truffles that promo community interaction and information on Hepatitis C.
Hard to explain but delightfuly soft sell-- the Chocolate Truffles that artist Caitlin Berrigan cooked up are a fasinating way of communicating a cause -- in this case Hepatitis C.
More later -- they are closing the press room so I'll have to finish this later-- but hopefully I've teased you a bit on this. Go to www.membrana.us for more info.
SIGGRAPH BALANCING IN THE "UNCANNY VALLEY" BETWEEN REAL & REEL!
UNCANNY VALLEY = Wikipedia defines the term "Uncanny Valley" as -- " area of repulsive response aroused by a robot with appearance and motion between a "barely-human" and "fully human" entity is called the Uncanny Valley. The name captures the idea that a robot which is "almost human" will seem overly "strange" to a human being and thus will fail to evoke the empathetic response required for productive human-robot interaction." Blogged by Joyce Schwarz @www.hollywood2020.blogs.com on location in San Diego at Siggraph 07.
SIGGRAPH 07 Confab is teeter-tottering between it's own 'uncanny valley' covering ground that I have long termed the quest between real versus the reel. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Siggraph Exhibit spaces this year. That's why I call it by a different name -- see the mini-headline below!
MOTION CAPTURE CITY --- The SIGGRAPH exhibit area almost evenly divided by major displays that focus on eye tracking, real-time face modeling and 3D Printers. In between are displays of motion capture at various stages of evolvement -- from custom-made suits and 'sleeves' to motion capture without the markers or suits. Do a search on Google News and you'll see 34 stories on Motion Capture at Siggraph -- written in the past week alone. RealViz, VICON, EA, Animazoo, Image Metrics, Icarus, Phasespace & more. If it's all too much for the 'real' you -- then head upstairs to the Emerging Tech area and have a kewl one!
IN THE EMERGING TECH AREA -- you can 'taste' virtual beer:
www.livescience.com (thanks to this site for the pix and see their more complete article on the Virtual Beer!
The virtual glass of beer was unveiled by a team from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia at SIGGRAPH 2007, the world’s largest computer graphics conference, in San Diego, to showcase their innovative special effects software.
August 06, 2007
Emerging Entertainment Analyst Joyce Schwarz Previews UNRAVEL --SIGGRAPH FASHION SHOW 07
SIGGRAPH --WHERE GRAPHICS, ART, TECHNOLOGY, GAMES, FASHION & MORE MEET...cross-roads to next-gen entertainment, blogged by Joyce Schwarz, author, emerging entertainment analyst & fugturist, www.hollywood2020.blogs.com.
from the intimate controller to the solar bikini -- who says cybersex is outdated? See more at the Siggraph.org Unravel fashion show.
Entertainment analyst & author Joyce Schwarz will be reporting live from SIGGRAPH 07 in San Diego this week. Watch for what's hot & what's not at this amazing computer animation, art, graphics & emerging tech confab.
logo for the Siggraph 07 -- techie fashion show -- see URL below.
Interactive 'kameraflage" and Solar Bikini -- to Unveil at UNRAVEL fashion show at SIGGRAPH 07.
UNRAVEL: Well, looks like we're going to miss the 'unraveling' of : "Unravel" which brings together the works of international designers and artists who are seeking to redefine the notion of 'wearable'. Fashion has been historically known as a form of personal expression. "Unravel" takes that expression to the next level by allowing the wearer to also interact with their environment. BLOGGER NOTE -- BUT good news the UNRAVEL website is up and we may be among the first blogs over there to cover this in advance of the fashion show Monday night! http://old.siggraph.org/s2007/unravel/Projects/18/
According to the press release from Siggraph.org --Photo or Video Opportunities Include:
- kameraflage™ - A display technology that is invisible to the naked eye, yet is visible when imaged with a digital camera. By integrating kameraflage™ into garments, a new level of expression is enabled for people who are limited by dress codes or those who simply wish to add an interactive element to their wardrobe. Also, kameraflage™ can be used as “electronic makeup” that can protect a wearer’s identity in today’s camera saturated world by discreetly disrupting the features required by electronic face-finding and face-recognizing systems. as seen last week on Engadget.com and scads of other tech and not so techie websites-- the great opportunity for this is also as a P2P live spaces game using the camera phone to see 'disappearing' designs! or should I saw 'appearing' designs' in movie theatres, museums and other public spaces. That app is explained here with info we took from the kameraflage website www.kameraflage.com Using kameraflageTM technology it becomes possible to display subtitles only to those people who want to see them. Movie-goers simply view the screen through the viewfinder of a digital camera like the one on their mobile phone.
Could a kameraflage(TM) app help with digital rights management? We'll see soon.
- Solar Bikini -
- A solar film bikini that charges portable music devices. The suit is a custom made bikini swimsuit retrofitted with 1” x 4” photovoltaic film strips sewn together in series with conductive thread. The cells terminate in a 5 volt regulator into a USB connection.
BUT ONLINE WE FOUND SOOO MUCH MORE....TAKE A PEEK!
* P''eau d'ANE -- CLICK ON THE THUMBNAIL TO SEE THE DRESS INSPIRED BY THIS FAIRY TALE --THAT REFLECTS, THE SUN, THE MOON & THE SKY -- AMAZING STUFF!
BRACELETS -- wearable communicators -- made from computer components not plastic beads!
note to designer-- could be a great way to recycle parts too -- if they are still in working order!
INTIMATE CONTROLLER -- bra for female or boxers for male (or vice-versa?)
Okay thank heavens they put the tank underneath....props for someone who has some discretion! Now where are the pix for the boxer shorts????
Solar Vintage-- a fabric fan goes solar-- awesome breath of fresh air!
SELF SUSTAINING CHAIR --- WEAR A CHAIR....AND YES THERE IS A PERFORMANCE VIDEO THAT GOES WITH IT!
http://www.jooyounpaek.com/ssc.html to watch the performance video.
NEGOTIATION -- YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS TO BELIEVE IT --
A KIND OF INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO
Knitter’s Tapestry
Daniela K. Rosner & Kimiko Ryokai
What if the material could record and playback these memories?
Click on the thumbnail to see the dress above which is knit from
magnetic tape -- really! or I should say reely!
JACKET ANTICS -- OKAY WE SAW led JACKETS AT ces -- AND TRIED TO BUY ONE-- BUT
ALL THEY WANTED TO SELL US WAS AN led BASEBALL CAP ....BUT THESE ARE VERY
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