The Living Web

2002, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU
Source: 2002, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU

(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau

The Living Web ,
Co-workers & Funding
developed in collaboration between
ATR Media Information Science Research Lab, Kyoto,
the FhG-IMK Frauenhofer Institute for Mediacommunication Bonn and the
IAMAS Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Gifu Japan.
Supported by the BEC Bonner Entwicklungswerkstatt für Computermedien.
http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/FRAMES/TOPFRAMES/TheLivingWebTop.html
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Description
This CAVE-based interactive and immersive installation explores the potential of the world-wide web as interactive and immersice data and information medium. Today information on the Internet is presented in a standard fashion, as defined by the currently available image browsers. In "The Living Web" users can immerse themselves physically and in 3D into this image and sound information streamed "live" from the Internet. Microphones pick up the users' conversations and use them to generate and download corresponding image and sound file from the Web. Users can furthermore interact with these data through intuitive interfaces and explore their content in more detail. "The Living Web" presents a novel system for intuitive, immersive and entertaining information creation and retrieval.

CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU
Keywords
  • genres
    • installations
      • interactive installations
      • virtual reality (VR)
    • telematic art
  • subjects
    • Art and Science
      • dynamical systems
    • Arts and Visual Culture
      • theory
        • complexity
    • Media and Communication
      • Internet
  • technology
    • displays
      • electronic displays
        • Cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE)
      • non-electronic displays
        • active shutter 3D systems
    • hardware
      • joysticks
    • interfaces
Technology & Material
Hardware
1 3D Environment (CAVE, Cave Automatic Virtual Environment)
1 Internet connection
1 Computer with 4 video outputs (4 stereo video screens)
3D glasses
Interface
Interactive tweezer interface equipped with 3D position sensor (Polhemus)
Polhemus interface
3D glasses
Software
Speech recognition (3rd party)
Internet image server (fetching and formatting)
Image flow control from speech engine
Exhibitions & Events
Art of Immersion, CAVE Festival
Bibliography
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