ARTS 3603/5630: Experimental Video

Making this video, i had an idea to visually express a mental process. I thought of the way ideas - or any other type of thoughts - come and go through the mind. The string tying itself into a knot is the visual representation of an idea itself - that is, a self-contained source of energy with the potential to be formed into a physical product or action. The water filling and emptying the jar on the right hand side is an abstraction for the way the mind can be alternately full and empty, able or incapacitated, to fulfill the potential in a idea. The knot catches fire as it becomes more and more entangled, a representation of the idea "fizzling out."
So the video is a symbolic - and very simplified - representation of a certain cycle in the mind, in which ideas come and go, entering into realization or fizzling out into nothingness entirely by chance according to whether or not the elements in the mind are aligned correctly to capacitate the realization ofthe idea's potential.
That being said, this video is an idea not fully realized. There is no represenatation per se of when an idea "gets through" and its potential is realized. This is something i couldn't think of quite how to express, but would like to, as i think it would be a step towards completely realizing the potential in this idea.

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This, for me, is still very much a thought, a part of a larger concept to be explored. I am interested in failed, abandoned spaces and how they affect human emotion and behavior. The idea with this exploration is to insert the viewer into the imagery as a way to contemplate the issues presented. I found interesting the comments on loneliness and the lack of identity of the mass/crowd. From here I want to alter the timeline of some of the silhouettes where some freeze in time while others delay or have altered states of time. I also want to explore the idea of surveillance, and the suggestion of the zoomed panning of the original picture is one that I find extremely interesting. I will post a new video after I alter some of those things.

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Jason Gaspar

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Media Mill Video

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Continue reading "Peter Browne-Shark Attack!" »

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My first game of tic- tac -toe.
one on one.

Guess whose the champ.

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Intro to Mediamill:

• Mediamill and general help and a nice tutorial.


• Video Codec information and list.

To do for the next class:

Download the demo patch ...

1. Make a representative still image of your project using and the message.


2. Record a "performance" of your project in Jitter using the
   object.


3. Upload your video to Mediamill and create a Flash 640x480 derivative.


4. Post your video on the class blog, along with the still image.


5. Along with your video and image, post a 250 word reflection on your piece and your creative process.

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Now that we've gotten our hands a bit dirty, we're ready to get into the Max tutorials.
The max tutorials come with the MaxMSP installer which we got in class from here.

There are two components:
1. A folder full of tutorial patches; download the zip file to your hard drive, double click on it to unzip it and get the folder.
2. A PDF file that describes all the patches.

Your assignment, due Monday Sep. 17th 2007, is to study Tutorials 1-26. This means, for every tutorial patch, you open the patch with MaxMSP/Jitter, open the PDF file and find the corresponding entry for the patch you're studying, play with the patch, read about the patch in the PDF, if there is anything you don't get, post a comment to this blog entry.

If you can't get the files for whatever reason, you can also find everyting on our class server:
afp://artserve.cla.umn.edu/momeni1/Installers/MaxMSP/Documentation/

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1 "Learn Max/MSP in 24 hours"
1.1 Objects, Messages, Data Flow and Order of events
1.1.1 bang
1.1.2 message
1.1.3 object
1.1.4 comment
1.1.5 trigger
1.1.6 gate / switch
1.1.7 select / route / OSC-route
1.1.8 counter
1.2 Data Storage
1.2.1 multislider
1.2.2 collection
1.2.3 table
1.2.4 buffer~
1.2.5 SDIF
1.2.6 jit.matrix
1.3 Arithmetic
1.3.1 +, -, *, /, !+, !-, !/, %,
1.3.2 scale/zmap
1.3.3 function
1.3.4 expr
1.4 Timing
1.4.1 delay
1.4.2 metro
1.4.3 qlist
1.5 Communication in patches
1.5.1 patch cords
1.5.2 send/receive
1.5.3 send~/receive~
1.5.4 route / OSC-route
1.5.5 pvar
1.6 List Processing
1.6.1 zl
1.6.2 mxj list
1.6.3 Lobjects
1.7 The "new" Max/MSP/Jitter
1.7.1 pattr
1.7.2 object prototypes
1.7.3 clippings
1.7.4 MaxToolbox

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