error101/internet

"The virtual communities created by online games have provided us with a new medium for social interaction and communication. Avatar Machine is a system which replicates the aesthetics and visuals of third person gaming, allowing the user to view themselves as a virtual character in real space via a head mounted interface."

this is one weird piece of work functioning as both a "mobile installation" and a socio-environmental study.



"The Head is a wearable sculpture with connection to internet and public access via mobile phone/sms.
The Head is available for adoption for the public. When someone adopts the piece they become responsible for it. Ideally the Head should follow its "foster-parent" everywhere s/he may go or alternatively placed in a location of their choise. The head contains a mobile phone, which is embedded in such a way that the camera of the phone functions as an eye of the head-sculpture.

The general public can access the Head via their mobile phones by sending an sms-message. When the Head receives the sms-message it responds by capturing an image and recording a short sound file simultaneously. This image with sound is sent back as a reply to the sms-sender and automatically uploaded to a dedicated website. I think about it as a kind of a collective memory.

The Head will be adopted and carried around by various individuals and it's mind (vision / hearing) is triggered to collect memories on the way.
Additionally to the open public adoption, I intend to make it available for adoption by specific public figures. For example a police officer, a politician, a tourist guide, a teacher: professions, which generally have "a view" on society."

Dreamlogs are an idea association engine. They propose another way to surf on the Internet, by disentangling the discourses that have interlaced over time

Dreamlogs are a new interface to the Global Text: a non-utilitarian and non-local alternative to search engines (eg. Google)

Dreamlogs confront the temporality of a dreamed life with the infinite dimensionality of speech

"A near-empty midnight session of the French National Assembly proposed this week that France allow peer-to-peer sharing of films and music over the Internet - a move that would legalize in the country what is now considered wholesale piracy in virtually every other nation."