Collaboration
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Overview
Focus of your group: Create a place that people can, and want, to visit. Focus on creating things/places that are both practical in SL, and potentially in RL as well. Use SL as a collaborative process to discuss the vision, what's being created while its happening.
Potential meeting time: Before and after class period.
Narrative
Collaboration Project Narrative
Members
- Melissa
- Melanie
- Dean
- Veronica
- Ryan
- Colin
Individual Tasks
Updated based on the revised assignment of presenting a space that looks complete, even if not functional
- Redesign layout to reflect spaces for everything we've talked about (a larger installation space, a jurying space, a little space for our "object drop-box," maybe a space for some sort of entrance or something where people will receive their notecards/instructions, etc.) then remap benches, greenery, and paths are needed.
- Building the first art installation.
- Building the jurying space and what will be the "object dropbox" (just a barrel or something at this point), including voting system and implementation of the selected piece.
- Building and scripting an entrance/introduction. Evan mentioned in class that while looking for the object drop-box script, he found a script for an object that accepts notecards. One way to do the voting process would be to hand out notecards named "VOTE FOR PROJECT 1," "VOTE FOR PROJECT 2," etc. that people could drop off in a box in the jurying space to cast their vote. The "entrance" could be a sign that says "touch here for help" and gives the user a stack of notecards: one for each project and one that describes how the process works.
4 tasks, 6 group members. I think that which of these will take the most time will depend on how dedicated the people working on it are (ie: a really great art installation might take days to finish, but a big wooden sphere would take 5 seconds) so it's hard to say which should have 2 people on it.
Due Thursday Nov. 01
Ryan - I guess I'll volunteer to do the entrance. It's the only thing that we know can be scripted right now--the other things are up in the air and probably only need to be built--and for some weird reason I feel confident about coding it.
Due Thursday Oct. 25 *DONE*
- Grass (Veronica)
- 1st circle space (Melanie)
- 2nd circle space (Melissa)
- T Station (Dean)
- Chairs, benches (Ryan)
- Trees (Colin)
Art Installation
Overview
- Art installation as you come out of the T
- Set-up a few seating or viewing areas around this area
- Bring in outside art groups to collaborate on a rotating installation
- Bi-monthly installation
- Bringing together private and public art groups (public school and private art galleries)
Idea #1: Fountain
- A fountain as installation
- Reflecting pool between the two columns
- Two joysticks that could be controlled by two different people
- The columns shoot water between both over the reflecting pool in the middle
Jury Space
Voting and Displaying Citizen Art
The theme of our space is Collaboration, so the objective is for people to interact in our space. The public would build an object based on a theme that changes over a period of time to submit to our space, and in turn we will display these images on a platform, preferably in real time. People would then have the ability to vote on each submission by interacting with that object in some way to show that they've selected that object. For example, if there is a way to have a targa file over each object to be voted on, that would allow them to select that image as their vote and submit. Then, we need a way to automatically tally those votes, and then show visually a meter that shows how each piece is doing in votes. After a period of voting time, the winning piece would automatically be displayed on another platform in the middle of our space. Each voting period, this process would repeat.
Project Proposals
From Colin
Let's focus on designing a single installation. And then use this "juried space" to put up a two or three other ideas that could be voted on by visitors in SL.
With this idea, we could plan to:
- Focus on making one installation cool and interactive.
- Build the juried space to get people to vote on the installation they'd want to go up next.
I also sent an email to Evan to see if he could send us a link to the juried space he was talking about in class last week. I thought if we could see an example of how a juried space worked, it might help us in designing our space.
So, whether or not we want to split into groups, here's what I am proposing:
- Part #1: Design main installation
- Part #2: Come up with one idea to be shown in the juried space
- Part #3: Come up with a second idea to be also shown in the juried space
- (Optional) Part #4: Come up with a third idea to be also shown in the juried space
Here's how I am picturing the juried space to work:
- People in SL can walk up to a "photograph" or representation of the installation and read a description of the project.
- We'll need a script that can allow people to vote on which installation they like the best.
So, this approach has two main parts based on building one main installation and at the same time building a juried space where people can vote on future projects.
IDEA
- Design, propose and think about we've learned
- Why does the space work?
Final Project
Notes from class (11/13)
Activate part of the project - think about how to recommend it in an urban context. Why does the project work? Using machinima films, compare physical govt. center v. virtual collaboration space. Should be a group statement. Create a 2 to 3 minute video as a group. Also a personal assessment of the project. Engaging in the disciplines (literature on the topic).
Juxtaposing the uses in real life v. what we're doing.
Some feedback from Eric on our project:
The notion of a rotating art project, user feedback in urban context, placement of things in terms of how people get things/information when they enter into a space. Making persuasive argument for the actual redesign of urban space.
Sample machinima video (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/videos/CyberOne.mp4)
Script
Collaboration Final Project Script
Attribution
- Govt. Center photo #1 (http://flickr.com/photos/davidgalestudios/1051403966/), by davidgalestudios (http://flickr.com/photos/davidgalestudios/) available under a CC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en)
- Govt. Center photo #2 (http://flickr.com/photos/kingdafy/752701402/in/photostream/), Sears Crescent building
- "Winning Sculpture" by Jeffrey Gomez
- Sculpture #3 by Jesz Murakami (http://secondlife.meetup.com/9/members/4068635/?gj=sj3)
- Sculpture #2 by Cheen Pitney (http://cheenpitney.blogspot.com/2007/11/first-nations-dancers-series-first-look.html)
- Sculpture #3 by Manfred Pessoa (http://secondarts.wordpress.com/artists/)
- All sculptures rom Oyster Bay Sculpture Garden and Aquarium, Oyster SLURL (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Oyster/41/169/82)
- For more background information, visit "Black Tie and Blues: Our machinima release event" (http://secondarts.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/black-tie-and-blues-our-machinima-release-event/)