Harvestworks New Works Residency Application Work Sample
March 31, 2010
Synopsis
The work I am proposing is part of a long term goal to start a weekly (or monthly) comedy night where the performers use custom-made software to enhance their act.
A prototype of a pair of covert stereoscopic video recording glasses I developed with Reggie
This residency would help me complete the first two steps, in which I will develop a series of performances with comedian and musician Reggie Watts utilizing projection, augmented reality and other computer vision techniques, speech-driven generative content, and a custom-made stereo vision device. The second step is a “summit” of comedians and programmers, the goal of which is to generate ideas around humor and software and start collaborations on new projects.
The World Series of ‘Tubing is a conceptual augmented reality game played in front of a live audience, combining the intensity of a high-stakes poker tournament with the world of sensational online video.
Invisible Threads is a mixed reality performance installation that explores the growing intersection between labor, emerging virtual economies and real life commodities through the creation of a designer jeans sweatshop in the metaverse Second Life.
Inside the Artist’s Studio is a radio program hosted by a robotic Chimpanzee named James Chimpton. Chimpton’s brain is powered by a markup language I created called ABSML, or A BullShit Markup Language. The result is rather absurd – a clothed robotic monkey, interviewing artists in the Biennial about their work, in a robotic english accent.
Harvestworks New Works Residency Application Work Sample
Synopsis
The work I am proposing is part of a long term goal to start a weekly (or monthly) comedy night where the performers use custom-made software to enhance their act.
A prototype of a pair of covert stereoscopic video recording glasses I developed with Reggie
This residency would help me complete the first two steps, in which I will develop a series of performances with comedian and musician Reggie Watts utilizing projection, augmented reality and other computer vision techniques, speech-driven generative content, and a custom-made stereo vision device. The second step is a “summit” of comedians and programmers, the goal of which is to generate ideas around humor and software and start collaborations on new projects.
Reggie Watts
Reggie Watts does London
F_CK SH_T STACK
Reggie on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Jeff Crouse
The World Series of ‘Tubing is a conceptual augmented reality game played in front of a live audience, combining the intensity of a high-stakes poker tournament with the world of sensational online video.
Invisible Threads is a mixed reality performance installation that explores the growing intersection between labor, emerging virtual economies and real life commodities through the creation of a designer jeans sweatshop in the metaverse Second Life.
Inside the Artist’s Studio is a radio program hosted by a robotic Chimpanzee named James Chimpton. Chimpton’s brain is powered by a markup language I created called ABSML, or A BullShit Markup Language. The result is rather absurd – a clothed robotic monkey, interviewing artists in the Biennial about their work, in a robotic english accent.