The Extensions of Noha

Area of interest:
Party Space Group Interaction engaged in for the goal of TRANSCENDENCE

Questions:
Is not-being the same as being somewhere else?
Does Telepresence equate to transcendence?
What is involved in losing yourself?
How can technology produce an ecstatic experience?
What place does Interactive Media have at a party/music performace/rave?
Should people interact with the music or just with the space?
Can the music be extricated from the concept of the space?
Is this a “difficult” subject?
Do I want to make tools for the performer or tools for the audience?
Which do I want to make first?
I’m worried that making stuff for people to do during a musical performance would distract them from getting as into the music, or if that if the audience successfully lost itself in the music, it wouldn’t care about my ambient experiences – am I just being silly?

Method or process:
Make stuff and test it at DJ gigs? Talk to Scott about Tim Leary and telepresence, listen to Maryanne Amacher, read about projects at Ars Electronica that interest me, find out how to satisfy my urges to make “unsafe” work – I like Toshio Iwai and the Electroplankton stuff but this whole “video games is the new rock and roll” crap has been blown vastly out of proportion. Interactive Media, at least in the IMD, is lacking in blood and sweat and gully crunky griminess so I want to make it my business to sex it up a little.

Topics:
Collective behavior - rocking out
Audiovisual trickery/fuckery
Loud and raucous. Lascivious.

Showtoys – party game – utilize cellphones 1st, more later
-do I want a narrative?
-can I make people find each other and do things? Maybe exchange codes. Why?
Join onscreen avatars together unlock loops or modulations – new musical and video directions – higher levels of animation like in shooters – higher levels of stimulation for better attacks is a reward for joining together with others. The more people the more progression. How to sense levels of moshing, intensity of movement on the dancefloor? Video tracking?
Humidity sensors???
Intended crowd: Berserk sweaty [term->] audience, dark alley – “The Smell”