Milkshake T2:

.Nan Wang, Trimester 2

Milkshake machine

About Transmediale 02/11

I participated some workshops; went to some lectures, conferences during Transmediale. After the whole festival, I couldn't say whether I like it or not. I received a lot of input information; some discussion also trigger me to start to think about certain network culture phenomenon. However, i still need to figure out whether those research and methodology fits my own direction. or after Transmediale whether i have a direction or not...........  ;( Anyway the good thing is: i did recorded some interesting sound in Berlin. Although the original plan is record the sound of footstep walking in snow field. But there are no snow anymore. may be next year.............

workshops:

1. Spam workshop 2. Anablog Stencil-Print Workshop 3. A-typo artistic book workshop

Talk, Screening, Performance:

1. Green rush 2. text file of desire 3. Video vortex 4. Long tern preservation of digital art 5. Media materials 6. Code narrative

Makino Takashi Analog film workshop 02/11

I appreciate the beauty of analog film. and really admired the aesthetic and quality of Makino Takashi's work. something simple but complex. 2D also 3D. I am thinking to use After effect scripting link this analog film generated noise pattern opacity data together with digital sound volume. O~~ did i mentioned that i just found out using Sublime write javascript in After effect? could be interesting. may be later try out kinet to generate digital image combined it together.

considering "in between" as a "position"

What is real is the becoming itself, the block of becoming, not the supposedly fixed terms through which that which becomes passes.

— Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

tools and reading list

Reading:

Video Vortex Reader I Responses to YouTube

Video Vortex Reader II Moving Images Beyond YouTube

Immersion into Noise----Joseph Nechvatal

Aesthetics of Visual Noise in Digital Literary Arts---Maria Engberg

Cracked Media, the sound of malfunction ---caleb kelly

Body in Pain ---Elaine Scarry

On Beauty and Being Just ---Elaine Scarry

Orgasmology --- Annamarie Jagose

Tools:

Although I have been overwhelmed by all kind of fancy coding languages and software. finally I decided to narrowed down my options.(still a lot ....)

1. processing

2. openframeworks

3. arduino

4. cinema 4d

5. analog film

6. Ableton

Media Object: Noise

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.

Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful