'Ere be Dragons
Lansdown Lecture - Heartlands: heart-rate, GPS, gameplay
'Ere Be Dragons is a pervasive digital artwork which encourages users to explore both their environment and themselves. Based on mobile computing, it is responsive to location and biodata (heartrate) which it uses to construct a responsive visual and auditory environment overlaid on the real world. It is designed to be highly engaging while at the same time raising important issues about health and behaviour. The work is an interdisciplinary collaboration between digital artists, an electronic arts centre, health scientists, and the UK research laboratory of a major IT company (Hewlett Packard)
Now here is a cool application for A.R glasses. Building a virtual world based on your heartbeat - the more your heart works during healthy exercise, so a more extravagant world is created around you. This could spawn all sorts of games, and be linked into other 3d worlds , so you could create content there with you heart beat.
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It's just a shame the 1 hour lecture is in north London, two and a half hours away:- they need to broadcast it in cyberspace so it's a bit easier to see. If we had our A.R glasses, we could all attend.
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interesting links and thoughts surrounding them. focus now needs to be on delivering for next friday's deadline and monday 19th presentations. in longer term though we should look at guy debord's 'the society of the spectacle' and the idea of the 'situationist game'. environmental matters seem to be of interest to you and it would be great to make work and carry out more research in this area. talk to billy the technician who is interested in this too. maybe we should look at the 'one laptop per child' campaign. the machines developed happen also to be eco-friendly. there are clubs where the energy used is generated through impact on floor of those dancing. lastly lazano-hemmer the mexican artist made an interesting piece which used heartbeat. i saw saw this during the summer so can talk to you more about it: http://interface.a-n.co.uk/reviews/single/377583 . all the best for the week ahead...
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