Nocturne

Categories: project documentation, work In progress

The exhibition, Nocturne is a compelling and eerie mix of childhood beasties and adult horrors projected onto the backdrop of the deep, dark Australian Bush.

Elizabethan Ruffs

Categories: vm_blog, work In progress

We commissioned Rudolf Ramseyer to make us a set of ruffs for the upcoming installation and for the imbedded actors to wear as part of their costumes. The results speak for themselves.    

Fledgling Virtual Environments in Unity

Categories: tutorials & resources, work In progress

Over the last couple of weeks a number of people have asked me what I have been up to, and have asked for further details when I have said that I am using Unity as the base for a number of virtual art projects I am working on. So here is the beginning of a series of posts that will outline some of this stuff. I will, over time, include some tutorials, but this post is more of a “with what?”

webcam infrared mod

Categories: work In progress

In the interest of some preliminary investigations into video tracking IR LED markers in the darkened theater environment, I opened up a Logitech c160 webcam and replaced the infrared filter with a couple of layers of exposed colour negative film.

in the failed field – 001

Categories: work In progress

version 001 of an ongoing series of works on the Caerleon-Mnemosyne sim on ReactionGrid. This series of artworks is investigating at logical, yet non-representative structures and systems within a virtual environment.

emergence?

Categories: work In progress

well perhaps not, an odd sort of bug, but somehow one of my objects I have been working as part of a self replicating SL native ‘plant’ life has offered me an inventory item… and here is the proof…

The object ‘branch’ in Second Life has offered you inventory.
Log in to accept to decline this inventory.

= branch is owned by Nonnatus Korhonen
= http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caerleon%20Isle/97/0/21

oracle

Categories: work In progress

i just noticed this discussion of oracle by Aleister Kronos. http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/05/oracle-of-culturegion.html oracle will be de-rezzed forever at the end of this week – though i already have plans for some of its parts in a the institute of the self … Continued

basic cell division

Categories: work In progress

an experiment in exponential self replication based on simple recurring cell divisions (the cells take a little while to get going..this is a five minute time lapse of a thirty minute period.)

Aiyas Aya

Categories: work In progress

currently the canadian artist Christopher Postill is residing in the palace of memory project space.. his research blog can be found here: http://chrispostillthesis.blogspot.com/ he is also curating the SL gallery space node zero : http://www.candormedia.com/node0/ from the images below there … Continued

palace snaps

Categories: work In progress

two new images of the palace of memory showing the work in progress ‘oracle’. currently new versions ‘street walker’ and ‘street talker’ are collecting words for the oracle to use and learn from.

networked consciousness

Categories: work In progress

street walker and street talker have led me to look for a way to deal with data manipulation in a more sophisticated manner than is capable in lsl i have been experimenting with shifting data out of SL for evaluation … Continued

street walking

Categories: work In progress

a project developed for the odyssey ‘Open Rez street art project’. street-walker and street-talker will interact with visitors to odyssey’s southern plaza and try to learn to communicate with each other, by listening to, and imitating these visitors. by taking … Continued