Sensory Anomalies

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• Sensory Anomalies
• Michael Naimark

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• Contents
• Mediated Sensory Experience
• Anomalous Space
• Dome Projections
• Displacements
• Anomalous Time
• Moviemaps
• Be now here
• Anomalous Interaction
• Karlsruhe Moviemap
• See BANFF Kinetoscope
• Violation and Metaphor

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• Mediated Sensory Experience
• Experimental design research!
• Explores formal aspects of time, space, place,
  movement and perception
• Nature of mediated sensory experience is central
  to such explorations

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• Mediated Sensory Experience
• Biggest difference with first-hand experiences is
  wether sensory anomalies exist
• None in first-hand experience
• The physical world obeys laws of science
• Anomalies in physical world are due to human
  software, hardware issues, such as psychosis NOT
  because of environment

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• Montage
• Audience transported across space and time
• Changing scale
• Photo-realistic fantasy characters
• These anomalies are intentional, meant to create
  metaphor and poetry

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• Virtual Reality
• Theoretical construct merging of feeling of
  first-hand experience with the freedom of
  physical world constraints.
• Goal indistinguisability form first-hand
  experience in the physical world
• Goal not creating a metaphor and poetry but
  about re-creating multi-sensory experience as
  consistent as possible

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• How can media technologies expand a sense of
  place?
• Experimental projects to transcend and exploit
  sensory anomalies and watch what happens.

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• Anomalous Space
• Dome projections
• Displacements

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• Dome projections
• 180 degree camera
• Projected on inside of dome, while people inside
  gt people read world /_ correctly
• Projected outside people on outside looking
  inward
• No miracle inside-out illusion

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• Displacements
• Bring spatiality back into cinema by moving movie
  projectors like cameras do when filming
• Natural-looking flashlight effect occurs
• "Still life with TV Guide" study, used for
  Displacements poster.

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• Spray painting everything in the room white to
  become its own projection screen. (photo Scott
  Fisher)

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• Anomalous Time
• Moviemaps
• Be now Here

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• Moviemaps
• Motion pictures can be triggered by space
  instead of time, measuring frames-per-feet,
  instead of frames-per-second
• interactive travel experience by pre-recording
  paths and turns
• Access to material so that participant has
  control of speed and direction

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• A flight plan, 10 by 10 mile grid centered on the
  Golden Gate Bridge. Coordinates on right were
  used for the helicopter's navigation system.

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• You-are here screen, aerial imagery, and
  trackball controller.

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• No moving objects (otherwise you have to
  dialogue with speed assignments of public)
• Another time anomaly sun, shadow...
• http//www.naimark.net/projects/goldengate/goldeng
  ate_v1.html

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• Be now here
• Upside of anomalous time possibility to
  experience more then one time slice of time
  simultaneously
• Breugel painting
• Dozens of people in same scene
• Where not there together probably...
• This glorious view of children at play in a
  European village was painted by Peter Breugel the
  Elder (1520-1569)

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• Be now here
• stereopanoramic installation of public plazas in
  UNESCO-designated World Heritage Sites in Danger
• Paricipants wore polarized 3D glasses
• Four channel location sound
• All add feeling of being in these four
  endagered places
• http//www.naimark.net/projects/benowhere/benowher
  e_v1.html

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• Viewer wears 3D glasses and views a large
  immersive screen. The child is in Timbuktu, Mali.
  (composite photo Ignazio Moresco)

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• The entire floor rotates once every two minutes
  in sync with the panning imagery, creating an
  illusion that the screen is rotating around the
  viewers. This effect is similar to the feeling
  when the train next to your pulls out of the
  station. (composite photo Christoph Dohrmann)

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• More daring
• A triptych of the same place but of three
  different times a day.
• Sun, sky, people dramatically change.
• But even whith such anomalies, the placeness
  apparantly remains.

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• Anomalous Interaction
• Karlsruhe Moviemap
• See BANFF Kinetoscope

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• Karsruhe Moviemap
• Hardest part for many artists making interactive
  work for the first time realization that
  audience matters, their behaviour must be taken
  into account
• gtlt traditional view artists (unlike designers)
  work from an internal drive, independent of an
  audience
• The rules change when an interactive artwork
  asks its audience to participate

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• 1989 Naimark made an immersive moviemap
  installation
• Past moviemaps on small screen
• Karlsruhe wide-angle lens and projected on a
  large screen
• Based on karsruhes famous tram system
• Allowed participants to control speed and which
  way to go
• Tramcar used for filming
• Visceral experience, why not get the whole body
  into act? (foot switches to control direction,
  lever to control speed)
• Wrong idea experience was so immersive people
  didn't want to look down to find the switches

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• Karlsruhe Moviemap

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• Portion of the map screen. Cursor shows position
  in real time. The tram south leads into the Black
  Forest.

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• 16mm pulse-frame camera is interfaced to the
  tram's electronic odometer.
• http//www.naimark.net/projects/karlsruhe/karlsruh
  e_v1.html

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• See BANFF Kinetoscope
• Exploration of using a variety of sensory
  modalities
• 1993 stereoscopic moviemap
• Scene from the Banff region of Canadian Rocky
  Mountains

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• Stereoscopic camera rig consisting of two
  "pulse-frame" 16mm motion picture cameras on a
  "Super Jogger" baby carriage. The cameras are
  distance-triggered by an encoder on the wheel.
  (photo Louis Psihoyos)

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• See Banff kinetoscope. Design based on actual
  kinetoscopes but with false "cartoon" perspective
  looking down (see EAT, 1989).

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• An "authentic" stereogram from the See Banff
  footage. (Actually, the images are reversed to
  you can fuse them to see 3D by crossing your
  eyes. Try it!) (composite photo Cathy McGinnis)

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• Conclusion
• Metaphor to some is violation to others.
• Faithful representation is a noble engineering
  goal, but things aren't quite as clear in art and
  design.
• Good metaphor can be in a form of
  short-hand...Sensory anomalies