From jim at vispo.com  Mon Mar  3 13:38:40 2014
From: jim at vispo.com (jim andrews)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:38:40 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
Message-ID: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>

I have written a Teleporter at
http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm 

You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map of where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the representational hyperreal. 

Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?

ja


From liane.gabora at ubc.ca  Mon Mar  3 13:51:13 2014
From: liane.gabora at ubc.ca (Liane Gabora)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 11:51:13 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
Message-ID: <CF3A1D31.143F4%liane.gabora@ubc.ca>

Cool!! 

When I went to map view I couldn't see how to go back to the place I had
been, as hitting teleport took me to a new location.

Liane

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Liane Gabora, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
email: liane.gabora at ubc.ca
https://people.ok.ubc.ca/lgabora/
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindbloggling
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On 2014-03-03 11:38 AM, "jim andrews" <jim at vispo.com> wrote:

> I have written a Teleporter at
> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm
> 
> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to
> steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a
> pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map of
> where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the representational
> hyperreal. 
> 
> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
> 
> ja
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com




From jim at vispo.com  Mon Mar  3 14:18:55 2014
From: jim at vispo.com (jim andrews)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 12:18:55 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <CF3A1D31.143F4%liane.gabora@ubc.ca>
References: <CF3A1D31.143F4%liane.gabora@ubc.ca>
Message-ID: <E4430B58-76C9-4F6E-8B63-CE5AC51EEB3C@vispo.com>

Hi Liane,

When you are looking at a map, there's a button that says "Street". If you press it, it takes you back to the 'street view' as Google calls it, or the representational hyperreal as most people know it. That self-same button, when you're looking at at panoramic Maya amid the representational hyperreal, changes its tune: it says "Map" in that case. It's a button with a big 'but'. 

ja

On 2014-03-03, at 11:51 AM, Liane Gabora <liane.gabora at ubc.ca> wrote:

> Cool!! 
> 
> When I went to map view I couldn't see how to go back to the place I had
> been, as hitting teleport took me to a new location.
> 
> Liane
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Liane Gabora, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Psychology, University of British Columbia
> email: liane.gabora at ubc.ca
> https://people.ok.ubc.ca/lgabora/
> http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mindbloggling
> www.faceco.co
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2014-03-03 11:38 AM, "jim andrews" <jim at vispo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have written a Teleporter at
>> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm
>> 
>> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to
>> steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a
>> pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map of
>> where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the representational
>> hyperreal. 
>> 
>> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
>> 
>> ja
>> _______________________________________________
>> x mailing list
>> x at vispo.com
>> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com




From andrew.klobucar at njit.edu  Mon Mar  3 14:41:09 2014
From: andrew.klobucar at njit.edu (Klobucar, Philip Andrew)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:41:09 -0500
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
Message-ID: <CAH-F+L=j+bJN4WJ0H0XG8KOAAsQy0RgZE-XBPi7hZE1kMCAfUQ@mail.gmail.com>

It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside...

"Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--But not for us." Kafka
Andrew Klobucar
Associate Professor
Department of Humanities
428 Cullimore Hall
973.596.5724
klobucar at njit.edu


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:38 PM, jim andrews <jim at vispo.com> wrote:

> I have written a Teleporter at
> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm
>
> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to
> steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a
> pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map
> of where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the
> representational hyperreal.
>
> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
>
> ja
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
>
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From pardenarden at gmail.com  Mon Mar  3 16:39:36 2014
From: pardenarden at gmail.com (Sean Arden)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 14:39:36 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <CAH-F+L=j+bJN4WJ0H0XG8KOAAsQy0RgZE-XBPi7hZE1kMCAfUQ@mail.gmail.com>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
	<CAH-F+L=j+bJN4WJ0H0XG8KOAAsQy0RgZE-XBPi7hZE1kMCAfUQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CA+2bDAcEiTmG7OgnE07tJYRtMtFXrJfiEY-zaz5RKcQnr6nTjw@mail.gmail.com>

I love this



On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Klobucar, Philip Andrew <
andrew.klobucar at njit.edu> wrote:

> It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside...
>
> "Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--But not for us." Kafka
> Andrew Klobucar
> Associate Professor
> Department of Humanities
> 428 Cullimore Hall
> 973.596.5724
> klobucar at njit.edu
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:38 PM, jim andrews <jim at vispo.com> wrote:
>
>> I have written a Teleporter at
>> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm
>>
>> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to
>> steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a
>> pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map
>> of where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the
>> representational hyperreal.
>>
>> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
>>
>> ja
>> _______________________________________________
>> x mailing list
>> x at vispo.com
>> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
>
>


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From deanne at diamedia.net  Mon Mar  3 17:10:46 2014
From: deanne at diamedia.net (Deanne | Dia Media)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:10:46 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <CA+2bDAcEiTmG7OgnE07tJYRtMtFXrJfiEY-zaz5RKcQnr6nTjw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
	<CAH-F+L=j+bJN4WJ0H0XG8KOAAsQy0RgZE-XBPi7hZE1kMCAfUQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<CA+2bDAcEiTmG7OgnE07tJYRtMtFXrJfiEY-zaz5RKcQnr6nTjw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1A369541-5981-4B7D-A90B-5AB0B5495573@diamedia.net>

Fabulous Jim!
I think I would like the teleport button (front the machine page) to also be on the actual command centre..I want to pull that handle down! ;_
Unless it is there and I missed it.
Cheers,
Deanne

On Mar 3, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Sean Arden <pardenarden at gmail.com> wrote:

> I love this
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Klobucar, Philip Andrew <andrew.klobucar at njit.edu> wrote:
> It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside...
> 
> "Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope--But not for us." Kafka
> Andrew Klobucar
> Associate Professor
> Department of Humanities
> 428 Cullimore Hall
> 973.596.5724
> klobucar at njit.edu
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:38 PM, jim andrews <jim at vispo.com> wrote:
> I have written a Teleporter at
> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm
> 
> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map of where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the representational hyperreal.
> 
> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
> 
> ja
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sean Arden
> ----------------
> seanarden.tumblr.com
> pardenarden.tumblr.com
> adventures in stereo
> atomized.ca
> twitter
> vimeo
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com

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From jandrews14474 at ecuad.ca  Mon Mar  3 17:58:05 2014
From: jandrews14474 at ecuad.ca (Jim Andrews)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:58:05 -0800
Subject: [x] Arne Eigenfeldt: Group of X: Fri Apr 25, 7pm, Beresford St
Message-ID: <E67BEAA8-EA5D-4340-8304-11A2AD8ABFB6@ecuad.ca>

I'm delighted to announce that Arne Eigenfeldt will be giving a talk to the Group of X on Fri Apr 25, 7pm.

Arne Eigenfeldt is a composer who has dedicated the last ten years to making his computer a truly creative partner. Exploring notions of AI through the use of multi-agent systems and evolutionary algorithms, his systems attempt to generate what Galanter considers the "complete work of art" through autonomous processes.

artwork: http://www.sfu.ca/~eigenfel/arne/works/works.html
papers: http://www.sfu.ca/~eigenfel/arne/research.html

He will describe his latest system, which will generate live music for eight musicians. Musical notation will be displayed on iPads for individual musicians to read (not improvise), and will be accompanied by three robotic instruments. The music will use a completely heuristic interpretation of evolutionary algorithms for creative purposes, and will be premiered at SFU Woodward's on May 2nd and 4th by the Turning Point Ensemble.

Arne teaches at Simon Fraser U in Vancouver in the School for Contemporary Arts and is also associated with SIAT, the School of Interactive Arts and Technology.

LOCATION

The talk is at Jim Andrews's and Natalie Funk's place at #805, 4350 Beresford St, Burnaby (Metrotown). There's free parking at the foot of the building and on Beresford St. Just don't park in the bus stop. It is easy to get here by skytrain. Go to the Patterson skytrain station. Walk up Beresford St. for 3-5 minutes. You can only walk in one direction on Beresford cuz it starts at the Patterson station. We are at the corner of Willingdon and Patterson. Buzz 139. BYOB. We will provide sushi and possibly sweets.

MAP

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=4350+Beresford+St,+Burnaby,+BC 


From bbogart at sfu.ca  Tue Mar  4 10:37:20 2014
From: bbogart at sfu.ca (B. Bogart)
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 08:37:20 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
Message-ID: <53160140.5060106@sfu.ca>

Hi Jim,

Teleporter implies to me the transmission of a live space, not a
prerecorded image.

At first I was thinking you set up a robot camera that is user
controlled somewhere!

One could imagine a pano camera on say the ocean floor, that would
capture an image each second and then allow multiple people to look at
different parts of it at the same time.

B.

On 14-03-03 11:38 AM, jim andrews wrote:
> I have written a Teleporter at
> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm 
> 
> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map of where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the representational hyperreal. 
> 
> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
> 
> ja
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 



From jim at vispo.com  Wed Mar  5 02:29:41 2014
From: jim at vispo.com (jim andrews)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 00:29:41 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <53160140.5060106@sfu.ca>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>
	<53160140.5060106@sfu.ca>
Message-ID: <9BCD9747-EED7-44E7-B923-B558219CE4E0@vispo.com>

Hi Ben,

I think of a teleporter as something fictional, for now, ie, something that transports you instantly across space. The technology does not exist, of course, but everybody knows what a teleporter is cuz it exists so prominently in Star Trek. 

What's the closest thing we have to it now? Well, telephone and video/television chat allow us at least to communicate more or less instantly across great distances. 

So it's true there is some 'false advertising' in calling my piece Teleporter. But, still, there is some marvelousness going on in it, I think. When you press the 'Teleport' button you are more or less instantly shown a panorama of a more or less random location on the planet. You can press the Teleport button till the cows come home but you won't see the same location twice in the same session. And because these are more or less random locations, you see a lot of views from islands in the ocean. Cuz so much of the world is covered in oceans. You see repeats if you have multiple sessions, but not within the same session. 

When you press the Teleport button, the program generates a random location. And then requests Google Maps return the closest 'street view' or 'panorama' to that location. If we haven't seen the resulting panorama, we view it. If we have, then we generate a different random location and start again.

It's interesting to note that this results in something with a convincing international flavour. But I expect that more than 50% of the available panoramas are of places in the USA. We don't see that many USA panoramas. The proportion of USA panoramas we see is about the same as the proportion of the USA land mass to the total world land mass. Cuz we're selecting a random location, not a random panorama.

I'm finding the results entertaining, myself. I kind of lucked out on an approach to that database of panoramas that doesn't simply result in a lot of same same  samey same road trip shots. The notion of the teleporter had some imaginative energy, to me, and that energy of the random location imbues the search results with the world's diversity across locations.

ja

On 2014-03-04, at 8:37 AM, B. Bogart <bbogart at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Hi Jim,
> 
> Teleporter implies to me the transmission of a live space, not a
> prerecorded image.
> 
> At first I was thinking you set up a robot camera that is user
> controlled somewhere!
> 
> One could imagine a pano camera on say the ocean floor, that would
> capture an image each second and then allow multiple people to look at
> different parts of it at the same time.
> 
> B.
> 
> On 14-03-03 11:38 AM, jim andrews wrote:
>> I have written a Teleporter at
>> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm 
>> 
>> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you can use to steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports your cranium to a pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The "Map" button lets you see a map of where you are. The "Street" button takes you back to the representational hyperreal. 
>> 
>> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
>> 
>> ja
>> _______________________________________________
>> x mailing list
>> x at vispo.com
>> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
>> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> x mailing list
> x at vispo.com
> http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com




From bbogart at sfu.ca  Wed Mar  5 10:36:43 2014
From: bbogart at sfu.ca (B. Bogart)
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 08:36:43 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <9BCD9747-EED7-44E7-B923-B558219CE4E0@vispo.com>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>	<53160140.5060106@sfu.ca>
	<9BCD9747-EED7-44E7-B923-B558219CE4E0@vispo.com>
Message-ID: <5317529B.2060300@sfu.ca>

Hi Jim!

Thanks for your response.

Indeed I did not think of our use of the word "tele" in the context of
television which can be clearly "live" or not.

It is certainly an interesting way to discover new places in the
overwhelming number of possible locations held by google.

Your points regarding the even distribution of random locations on the
globe really interesting, and its an important point to make. Of course
there is still a bias in that its unlikely (or impossible) we'll arrive
at locations where smart phones and cameras are a rarity.

Now that is an interesting idea, to use the density of the panoramas to
identify the locations that have not been well captured and generate a
map from that. I would expect it would approximately match a map
plotting wealth by location.

Ben


On 14-03-05 12:29 AM, jim andrews wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> I think of a teleporter as something fictional, for now, ie,
> something that transports you instantly across space. The technology
> does not exist, of course, but everybody knows what a teleporter is
> cuz it exists so prominently in Star Trek.
> 
> What's the closest thing we have to it now? Well, telephone and
> video/television chat allow us at least to communicate more or less
> instantly across great distances.
> 
> So it's true there is some 'false advertising' in calling my piece
> Teleporter. But, still, there is some marvelousness going on in it, I
> think. When you press the 'Teleport' button you are more or less
> instantly shown a panorama of a more or less random location on the
> planet. You can press the Teleport button till the cows come home but
> you won't see the same location twice in the same session. And
> because these are more or less random locations, you see a lot of
> views from islands in the ocean. Cuz so much of the world is covered
> in oceans. You see repeats if you have multiple sessions, but not
> within the same session.
> 
> When you press the Teleport button, the program generates a random
> location. And then requests Google Maps return the closest 'street
> view' or 'panorama' to that location. If we haven't seen the
> resulting panorama, we view it. If we have, then we generate a
> different random location and start again.
> 
> It's interesting to note that this results in something with a
> convincing international flavour. But I expect that more than 50% of
> the available panoramas are of places in the USA. We don't see that
> many USA panoramas. The proportion of USA panoramas we see is about
> the same as the proportion of the USA land mass to the total world
> land mass. Cuz we're selecting a random location, not a random
> panorama.
> 
> I'm finding the results entertaining, myself. I kind of lucked out on
> an approach to that database of panoramas that doesn't simply result
> in a lot of same same  samey same road trip shots. The notion of the
> teleporter had some imaginative energy, to me, and that energy of the
> random location imbues the search results with the world's diversity
> across locations.
> 
> ja
> 
> On 2014-03-04, at 8:37 AM, B. Bogart <bbogart at sfu.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jim,
>> 
>> Teleporter implies to me the transmission of a live space, not a 
>> prerecorded image.
>> 
>> At first I was thinking you set up a robot camera that is user 
>> controlled somewhere!
>> 
>> One could imagine a pano camera on say the ocean floor, that would 
>> capture an image each second and then allow multiple people to look
>> at different parts of it at the same time.
>> 
>> B.
>> 
>> On 14-03-03 11:38 AM, jim andrews wrote:
>>> I have written a Teleporter at 
>>> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm
>>> 
>>> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you
>>> can use to steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports
>>> your cranium to a pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The
>>> "Map" button lets you see a map of where you are. The "Street"
>>> button takes you back to the representational hyperreal.
>>> 
>>> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
>>> 
>>> ja _______________________________________________ x mailing
>>> list x at vispo.com http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
>>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________ x mailing list 
>> x at vispo.com http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________ x mailing list 
> x at vispo.com http://vispo.com/mailman/listinfo/x_vispo.com
> 



From jim at vispo.com  Wed Mar  5 11:32:54 2014
From: jim at vispo.com (jim andrews)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:32:54 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <5317529B.2060300@sfu.ca>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>	<53160140.5060106@sfu.ca>
	<9BCD9747-EED7-44E7-B923-B558219CE4E0@vispo.com>
	<5317529B.2060300@sfu.ca>
Message-ID: <340FF430-9A7B-4C53-9F16-1766CB2EE8F1@vispo.com>

Hi Ben,

Yes indeed such a (statistical) map of global panorama density could be generated in a Telporter session. The globe would be covered by a web; the larger the hole in the web, the less the panorama density. I would be surprised if Google was not on that already, actually. Of course I would expect the primary correlation here is whether the territory is covered by ocean or land. There are very few panormas (though there are some) out in the middle of the ocean and not on land. Some are underwater. On land, I would expect panorama density would, most importantly, correlate with nationality. I expect some countries do not have much Google action going on. Also, population density would be another strong correlation. 

But, as you point out, probably wealth is strongly correlated with panorama density. Mind you, I've seen some pretty destitute looking areas in a few of the areas. I just looked at a panorama near Lipu Hospital, 303 County Rd, Zhuji, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China that seems rather gritty. And I've seen some panoramas in the streets of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and northern Iraq that were pretty gritty. Mind you, I can't find them other than in Teleporter, ie, I can't find them by going there in maps.google.com. Not sure about that. 

It's not only employees of Google making and contributing panoramas. If you look in the bottom right of a panorma, you see the photography credit. Some individuals are credited in some of them.

I'll have to create a 'share' button for Teleporter.

ja


On 2014-03-05, at 8:36 AM, "B. Bogart" <bbogart at sfu.ca> wrote:

> Hi Jim!
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> Indeed I did not think of our use of the word "tele" in the context of
> television which can be clearly "live" or not.
> 
> It is certainly an interesting way to discover new places in the
> overwhelming number of possible locations held by google.
> 
> Your points regarding the even distribution of random locations on the
> globe really interesting, and its an important point to make. Of course
> there is still a bias in that its unlikely (or impossible) we'll arrive
> at locations where smart phones and cameras are a rarity.
> 
> Now that is an interesting idea, to use the density of the panoramas to
> identify the locations that have not been well captured and generate a
> map from that. I would expect it would approximately match a map
> plotting wealth by location.
> 
> Ben
> 
> 
> On 14-03-05 12:29 AM, jim andrews wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>> 
>> I think of a teleporter as something fictional, for now, ie,
>> something that transports you instantly across space. The technology
>> does not exist, of course, but everybody knows what a teleporter is
>> cuz it exists so prominently in Star Trek.
>> 
>> What's the closest thing we have to it now? Well, telephone and
>> video/television chat allow us at least to communicate more or less
>> instantly across great distances.
>> 
>> So it's true there is some 'false advertising' in calling my piece
>> Teleporter. But, still, there is some marvelousness going on in it, I
>> think. When you press the 'Teleport' button you are more or less
>> instantly shown a panorama of a more or less random location on the
>> planet. You can press the Teleport button till the cows come home but
>> you won't see the same location twice in the same session. And
>> because these are more or less random locations, you see a lot of
>> views from islands in the ocean. Cuz so much of the world is covered
>> in oceans. You see repeats if you have multiple sessions, but not
>> within the same session.
>> 
>> When you press the Teleport button, the program generates a random
>> location. And then requests Google Maps return the closest 'street
>> view' or 'panorama' to that location. If we haven't seen the
>> resulting panorama, we view it. If we have, then we generate a
>> different random location and start again.
>> 
>> It's interesting to note that this results in something with a
>> convincing international flavour. But I expect that more than 50% of
>> the available panoramas are of places in the USA. We don't see that
>> many USA panoramas. The proportion of USA panoramas we see is about
>> the same as the proportion of the USA land mass to the total world
>> land mass. Cuz we're selecting a random location, not a random
>> panorama.
>> 
>> I'm finding the results entertaining, myself. I kind of lucked out on
>> an approach to that database of panoramas that doesn't simply result
>> in a lot of same same  samey same road trip shots. The notion of the
>> teleporter had some imaginative energy, to me, and that energy of the
>> random location imbues the search results with the world's diversity
>> across locations.
>> 
>> ja
>> 
>> On 2014-03-04, at 8:37 AM, B. Bogart <bbogart at sfu.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Jim,
>>> 
>>> Teleporter implies to me the transmission of a live space, not a 
>>> prerecorded image.
>>> 
>>> At first I was thinking you set up a robot camera that is user 
>>> controlled somewhere!
>>> 
>>> One could imagine a pano camera on say the ocean floor, that would 
>>> capture an image each second and then allow multiple people to look
>>> at different parts of it at the same time.
>>> 
>>> B.
>>> 
>>> On 14-03-03 11:38 AM, jim andrews wrote:
>>>> I have written a Teleporter at 
>>>> http://vispo.com/mad220/maps/teleporter.htm
>>>> 
>>>> You start out in the machine itself. There are two buttons you
>>>> can use to steer the machine. The "Teleport" button transports
>>>> your cranium to a pseudo-random location on planet Earth. The
>>>> "Map" button lets you see a map of where you are. The "Street"
>>>> button takes you back to the representational hyperreal.
>>>> 
>>>> Suggestions to improve the machine? Comments?
>>>> 
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From bbogart at sfu.ca  Wed Mar  5 12:44:08 2014
From: bbogart at sfu.ca (B. Bogart)
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 10:44:08 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <340FF430-9A7B-4C53-9F16-1766CB2EE8F1@vispo.com>
References: <238059F5-0864-40BD-8A34-39D306C45DAF@vispo.com>	<53160140.5060106@sfu.ca>	<9BCD9747-EED7-44E7-B923-B558219CE4E0@vispo.com>	<5317529B.2060300@sfu.ca>
	<340FF430-9A7B-4C53-9F16-1766CB2EE8F1@vispo.com>
Message-ID: <53177078.90701@sfu.ca>

I'll comment inline...

On 14-03-05 09:32 AM, jim andrews wrote:
> But, as you point out, probably wealth is strongly correlated with
> panorama density. Mind you, I've seen some pretty destitute looking
> areas in a few of the areas. I just looked at a panorama near Lipu
> Hospital, 303 County Rd, Zhuji, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China that seems
> rather gritty. And I've seen some panoramas in the streets of
> Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and northern Iraq that were pretty
> gritty. Mind you, I can't find them other than in Teleporter, ie, I
> can't find them by going there in maps.google.com. Not sure about
> that.

Indeed there is something interesting in the tension between a external
visitor capturing an image and a location in which the image is
captured. The cultural construction of the other through visual media is
an old topic. It's hard to see this outside of the context of
colonialism and appropriation.

There is also the issue of locality. Gritty and homeless and luxury and
million dollar condos may very well be in close proximity. While this
does mean that those poor/emerging locations are being represented, they
are being represented through the lens (literally) of an outsider (I
suspect in general).

There is also the urban / rural divide and the roads that connect them.
We can teleport to particular points on a path that seem to have no
significance in themselves beyond the path.

> It's not only employees of Google making and contributing panoramas.
> If you look in the bottom right of a panorma, you see the photography
> credit. Some individuals are credited in some of them.

Indeed, it seems android phones can take such panoramas, I wonder if
those posted on G+ will end up in the service you are using.

> I'll have to create a 'share' button for Teleporter.

Yes!! I think this would be really interesting... Also a sense of where
other panoramas are nearby in the map would be nice to see. I keep
wondering why this point, why not 1 mile up or down, are those images
not in the service, or is this point just the closest?

B.



From jim at vispo.com  Wed Mar  5 14:21:21 2014
From: jim at vispo.com (jim andrews)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:21:21 -0800
Subject: [x] Teleporter
In-Reply-To: <53177078.90701@sfu.ca>
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	<340FF430-9A7B-4C53-9F16-1766CB2EE8F1@vispo.com>
	<53177078.90701@sfu.ca>
Message-ID: <14D304B7-EEE8-44D1-9B3F-73D75F141023@vispo.com>

> 
> On 14-03-05 09:32 AM, jim andrews wrote:
>> But, as you point out, probably wealth is strongly correlated with
>> panorama density. Mind you, I've seen some pretty destitute looking
>> areas in a few of the areas. I just looked at a panorama near Lipu
>> Hospital, 303 County Rd, Zhuji, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China that seems
>> rather gritty. And I've seen some panoramas in the streets of
>> Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, and northern Iraq that were pretty
>> gritty. Mind you, I can't find them other than in Teleporter, ie, I
>> can't find them by going there in maps.google.com. Not sure about
>> that.
> 
> Indeed there is something interesting in the tension between a external
> visitor capturing an image and a location in which the image is
> captured. The cultural construction of the other through visual media is
> an old topic. It's hard to see this outside of the context of
> colonialism and appropriation.

It's an issue, of course. But Google maps and Teleporter are available to anyone able to surf the web. That does not include everyone on the planet, but it has broad international, intercultural availability. Many of the panoramas have the feel of being shot by outsiders, it's true. Some seem far more involved in the context, however. Many of them are not linked to adjacent panoramas; these isolated panoramas usually aspire to some sort of self-sufficiency. Which doesn't mean they weren't taken by outsiders, but the isolated ones are usually interesting as photographs, at least. Sometimes they go well beyond that.  

> There is also the issue of locality. Gritty and homeless and luxury and
> million dollar condos may very well be in close proximity. While this
> does mean that those poor/emerging locations are being represented, they
> are being represented through the lens (literally) of an outsider (I
> suspect in general).

Yes I expect that's often the case, though not always.

> There is also the urban / rural divide and the roads that connect them.
> We can teleport to particular points on a path that seem to have no
> significance in themselves beyond the path.

Linking the panoramas to relevant, interesting info--without using the Google Places API, which costs money--is part of the rest of the project, certainly.

> 
>> It's not only employees of Google making and contributing panoramas.
>> If you look in the bottom right of a panorma, you see the photography
>> credit. Some individuals are credited in some of them.
> 
> Indeed, it seems android phones can take such panoramas, I wonder if
> those posted on G+ will end up in the service you are using.
> 
>> I'll have to create a 'share' button for Teleporter.
> 
> Yes!! I think this would be really interesting... Also a sense of where
> other panoramas are nearby in the map would be nice to see. I keep
> wondering why this point, why not 1 mile up or down, are those images
> not in the service, or is this point just the closest?

When you're in Teleporter's map view, you see a crosshair symbol in the center of the screen. When you click the "Street" button, the panorama you will see will be the closest one to where the crosshair is located. And the map marker will subsequently be updated.

ja




From eliferrari at gmail.com  Wed Mar  5 14:59:13 2014
From: eliferrari at gmail.com (Elisa Ferrari)
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:59:13 -0800
Subject: [x] VIVO | PERMANENT DEVIATION | Fri March 14, 8PM-12AM
Message-ID: <CAP5icGYq+anrExd9y8in2EQDHP3YYDF4vUp=MaMM0fk=jVrbNA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all

On Friday March 14 @ VIVO Media Arts, we are launching PERMANENT
DEVIATION, an online Processing compiler and simultaneous
participatory exhibition space
conceived by JULIE GENDRON. Please see below for more details.

I thought this event might of interest to the subscribers of this
mailing list  based in Vancouver or elsewhere!

***Please note that people who cannot attend are welcome to
participate by going to the site (http://permanentdeviation.com) on
the night of the event to add their own code or watch the coding LIVE.

Thank you
elisa

----
*PERMANENT DEVIATION*
Opening: *FRIDAY MARCH 14, 2014 / 8pm-12am (PST)*
Website launch and live art
codinghttp://vivomediaarts.com/event/permanent-deviation

PERMANENT DEVIATION (http://permanentdeviation.com) is an online
Processing compiler and simultaneous participatory exhibition space
conceived by JULIE GENDRON in association with BRADY MARKS.

Permanent Deviation provides an online space that can be described as an
exquisite corpse, graffiti wall, training ground for making generative art
using the Processing* programming language. Coders must use the code of
the last participant in a set amount of time to generate a new art object.
In this way, each participant's code acts as the baseline from which the
next coder has to work.

The site will be officially launched at VIVO on March 14, 2014 in the
Video Bar. JESSE SCOTT and JULIE GENDRON will co-curate an evening of live
art generation where any coders at the opening or around the world can
take over the site and change the canvas.


JULIE GENDRON is a designer and artist who works in the areas of
interactivity, access, playfulness and change. Julie designs and
facilitates experiences that allow people to explore and create their own
point of view, culture and communities through her participatory art
practice. This project is one in a series of structural artworks that is
intended to be completed by its viewers. Other works can be seen
here:http://desiringproductions.com

*Processing is a generative programming language typically used for the
purpose of art making. It is normally executed in a client-side
application but this project uses the processing.js library to allow it to
be used online.

This project was developed with the participation of Creative BC and the
British Columbia Arts Council.

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/484541391645933/

VIVO WEBSITE: http://vivomediaarts.com/event/permanent-deviation
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From jim at vispo.com  Tue Mar 25 00:06:11 2014
From: jim at vispo.com (Jim Andrews)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:06:11 -0700
Subject: [x] Group of X: Christopher Anderson, Fri Mar 28, 7pm
Message-ID: <2B0D2704D8D14295AB1BD982C672DE17@OwnerPC>

I'm happy to announce that Christopher Anderson will be presenting his work 
to the Group of X on Fri Mar 28 at 7pm.

Christopher Anderson is a recent master of fine arts graduate, sessional 
instructor and research assistant in the School of Contemporary Arts at 
Simon Fraser University in Vancouver British Columbia. He is a composer and 
performer with a background in both traditional and electroacoustic music. 
His interests include exploring new approaches to interactive music 
performance and the use of generative systems within composition. Much of 
his recent work has been in assisting a generative music project, the 
Generative Electronica Research Project (GERP), within the Metacreation, 
Multi-Agent Systems lab (MAMAS) at SFU. Christopher recently presented some 
of this work at the October 2013 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 
and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Music Metacreation workshop in 
Boston. He also writes electronic music related articles for the online 
magazine PopMatters.

For this Group of X meeting he will be discussing the use of generative 
systems in live mixed media performance and how they relate to his practice. 
He will demonstrate some of his MFA thesis work as well as some systems that 
have emerged from his work as a research assistant with MAMAS at SFU.  He 
will also be looking at how some corpus based algorithmic processes can 
provide some interesting results for use in live performance and in music 
studio production practices.  Some areas of live performance aesthetics such 
as ephemerality will also be discussed.

His Vimeo performance videos: http://vimeo.com/user7857243

SoundCloud site of his generative system GEDMAS: 
https://soundcloud.com/pitter-pattr

Website: oscillatedspace.com (under construction)

LOCATION

The talk is at Jim Andrews's and Natalie Funk's place at #805, 4350 
Beresford St, Burnaby (Metrotown). There's free parking at the foot of the 
building and on Beresford St. Just don't park in the bus stop. It is easy to 
get here by skytrain. Go to the Patterson skytrain station. Walk up 
Beresford St. for 3-5 minutes. You can only walk in one direction on 
Beresford cuz it starts at the Patterson station. We are at the corner of 
Willingdon and Patterson. Buzz 139. BYOB. We will provide sushi and possibly 
sweets.

MAP

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=4350+Beresford+St,+Burnaby,+BC 




From swingfroggy at yahoo.ca  Tue Mar 25 22:36:10 2014
From: swingfroggy at yahoo.ca (Frederica)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:36:10 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [x] Group of X: Christopher Anderson, Fri Mar 28, 7pm
Message-ID: <1395804970.9238.BPMail_high_noncarrier@web160705.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>


Argh, you're on the same evening as In VIVO Media Arts Open House (6pm, 1965 Main St)!!

So I'll come but I will be a little late.

Frederica


------------------------------
On Mon, 24 Mar, 2014 10:06 PM PDT Jim Andrews wrote:

>I'm happy to announce that Christopher Anderson will be presenting his work to the Group of X on Fri Mar 28 at 7pm.
>
>Christopher Anderson is a recent master of fine arts graduate, sessional instructor and research assistant in the School of Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver British Columbia. He is a composer and performer with a background in both traditional and electroacoustic music. His interests include exploring new approaches to interactive music performance and the use of generative systems within composition. Much of his recent work has been in assisting a generative music project, the Generative Electronica Research Project (GERP), within the Metacreation, Multi-Agent Systems lab (MAMAS) at SFU. Christopher recently presented some of this work at the October 2013 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Music Metacreation workshop in Boston. He also writes electronic music related articles for the online magazine PopMatters.
>
>For this Group of X meeting he will be discussing the use of generative systems in live mixed media performance and how they relate to his practice. He will demonstrate some of his MFA thesis work as well as some systems that have emerged from his work as a research assistant with MAMAS at SFU.  He will also be looking at how some corpus based algorithmic processes can provide some interesting results for use in live performance and in music studio production practices.  Some areas of live performance aesthetics such as ephemerality will also be discussed.
>
>His Vimeo performance videos: http://vimeo.com/user7857243
>
>SoundCloud site of his generative system GEDMAS: https://soundcloud.com/pitter-pattr
>
>Website: oscillatedspace.com (under construction)
>
>LOCATION
>
>The talk is at Jim Andrews's and Natalie Funk's place at #805, 4350 Beresford St, Burnaby (Metrotown). There's free parking at the foot of the building and on Beresford St. Just don't park in the bus stop. It is easy to get here by skytrain. Go to the Patterson skytrain station. Walk up Beresford St. for 3-5 minutes. You can only walk in one direction on Beresford cuz it starts at the Patterson station. We are at the corner of Willingdon and Patterson. Buzz 139. BYOB. We will provide sushi and possibly sweets.
>
>MAP
>
>https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=4350+Beresford+St,+Burnaby,+BC 
>
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