#david rokeby

[ozkar-krapo]

V/A

"Musicworks #46"

(cassette. Musicworks. 1990. rec. 1987-88/90) [CA/US]

[mediaac]

The surface inspiration for n-Cha(n)t was a strong and somewhat inexplicable desire to hear a community of computers speaking together: chattering amongst themselves, musing, intoning chants... It is probably significant that my father is a retired Anglican minister, and that I spent many Sundays in my youth fascinated by the subtle shiftings of voices speaking in unison… the sudden sibilance of shared s's… the slight variations with words forgotten or older versions preferred.

[mediaac]

The Giver of Names is quite simply, a computer system that gives objects names. The installation includes an empty pedestal, a video camera, a computer system and a small video projection. The camera observes the top of the pedestal. The installation space is full of "stuff"... objects of many sorts. The gallery visitor can choose an object or set of objects from those in the space, or anything they might have with them, and place them on the pedestal. When an object is placed on the pedestal, the computer grabs an image. It then performs many levels of image processing (outline analysis, division into separate objects or parts, colour analysis, texture analysis, etc.) These processes are visible on the life-size video projection above the pedestal. In the projection, the objects make the transition from real to imaged to increasingly abstracted as the system tries to make sense of them.

[mediaac]

[universalear]

After a few minutes making music by dancing at video cameras, image processors, computers, synthesizers and a sound system, people often feel an afterimage of the experience, feeling directly involved in the random actions of the street.

[yhancik]

⬆ Microsoft today & David Rokeby in 2001 ⬇

[tomluyten]

Whether we intend it or  not, we're redesigning the ways that we experience the world and each other

David Rokeby in "the construction of experience"

[rafegas]

Infinitely bouncing ball at Luminato, art installation by David Rokeby - Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place, Toronto