26 January, 2010

Ars Electronica Archive in Second Life (Complete Version)

"Ars Electronica Archive in Second Life" was produced for exhibition in "Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan / Ars Electronica 30 years for Art and Media Technology" at Museum of Contemporary art Tokyo and The 13th Japan Media Arts Festival.



In this archive, users can browse images and webpages of Japanese winners of Prix Ars Electronica 1987 to 2007. And also, this archive support Livecam function (the scene of exhibition will be projected) and twitter search widget. I'm constructing new function contributing the chatlog in Second Life to twitter now.

SLurl:http://slurl.com/secondlife/tmu/193/174/29



Credits:
Created by Hidenori Watanave + Hidenori Watanave Lab. Tokyo Metropolitan University (Music by Kensuke Takada, Supported by Yumi Akutsu, Ayaka Daimon, Yuki Nakamaru, Yurina Takata and Kazuya Kitahara)
Conception by Tomoe Moriyama

15 January, 2010

Ars Electronica Archive in Second Life

Updated 20100115: Live camera function, and BGM by K. Takada (a student in Tokyo Metropolitan University) was installed. This archive will be exhibited in mouse-looking mode with a controller of Playstation.



Updated 20100110: The media browser and Ars Electronica archives of 1987 - 1991 were included. >>movie

Updated 20100109:
Viewing function of Twitter search result and contents of official website were included. >>movie

Updated 20100107: Japanese Artists' works of Ars Electronica 1987 were included. >>movie



Now we are developing "Ars Electronica Archive in Second Life" for our exhibition in "Technoclasm Cyber Arts Japan / Ars Electronica 30 years for Art and Media Technology" in MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO.


Now It is under construction, and will be exhibited in the museum, Feb.02 - Mar.22, 2010. We will introduce its progress report by this blog.

See also:

19 December, 2009

SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Presentation

Our 2 presentations at SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 are completed. We just uploaded our movies to YouTube. One movie of Sketches session is full version, but another one is a digest version, because of YouTube's limitation of time-length.


Tuvalu Visualization Project"
Presentation by Makiko Suzuki Harada


"Educational Activity Using A Photograph Mapping System"
Presentation by Hidenori Watanave