This semester I am doing a directed research CNTV 590 project with Scott Fisher as my advisor. I will try to update my progress here as often as possible so that those that are interested may follow along and contribute comments. Please feel free to write me about any issues that you find compelling as I believe that an open dialogue is the most important aspect of all academic programs.
There are really two initial goals that I have in my reasearch right now: (1) the first is to design an infrastructure for a database that dynamically organizes tagged (think RFID or GPS) objects (mobile and static) and their metadata into "communities" so that one may leverage the relational networks and (2) the second is to design an interface for this system (AR...).
And after the technology is finished, what then?
Art.
What do I mean by that?
Of course the technology could have all sorts of industrial uses and as well as many nefarious privacy invasion implications... but I would challenge everyone (as well as myself) to overlook the obvious and try to imagine a fluid medium where every object is a primitive that participates in building a piece of art that is both physical and virtual through the natural and programmed relationships between the space, the objects and the viewer.
Um... what do I mean by that?
I don't know yet! That's why I'm doing the project.
See you soon.
K
Aren't you sick of all these returns?
You should learn to give up.
You should learn to lose hope.
You should learn to abandon expectations.
You should learn to surrender your ambitions.
Just leave it alone.
And watch me whither.
Away.