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“Chat” at 24c3 movie
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I just updated the “Chat” project site with some new pictures and a movie of Chat action at 24c3.
"Chat" at 24C3
Chat performance yesterday at 24C3 went very well and was a lot of fun. Tim made up a short story on the psychology of a chat bubble.
more pics on flickr
udate: thx to daniel, duracell, szahra, martel among others for support!!!
"Chat" at 24C3
I am planning to show the latest Chat version at 24C3 Chaos Communication Congess Berlin ( 27-30.12.07 ) on sat. 29.12 from 5 pm till open end.
Merry X-mas to everybody! See you next year!
"Typing of the death"
Inspired by the “Chat” pics below
somebody did send Jonah this link. An edutainment game called “Typing of the death” released for dreamcast in 2000. Instead of shoting zombies players have to type the right letters to kill them. lol
Maybe I should modify “Chat” for doing that too. ;-)
Thx for the link Jonah!
"Chat" vers.2.0 preview
I am working on a new version of the mobile installation/performance “Chat” (premiered during Ars Electronica 07). This version will be shown during Clubtransmediale in Jan/Feb 2008. Stay tuned!
More speech bubbles
While I was performing “Chat” at Marienstrasse, 2nd City, Ars Electronica 2007 the G.R.L. guys were joking, making sure the got the biggest chat bubble. Imagine me standing with my “Chat” speech bubble next to the wall in this pic. It’s always a lot of fun having James and Evan around.
Today Tobi (aka Mr.Timemachine-Firefox-retro-plugin) who was part of my 2nd City shop team send me this link.
Somehow the project TXTual Healing by Paul Notzold appears to be a nice combination of GRL lasertagging and public speechbubbles. Check it out!
"Chat", full documentation.
Chat documentation completed!
The Chat project is a mobile performance installation that can be played by two people at a time. Just like in World of Warcraft or Second Life, the two participants communicate with each other in the form of brief text messages input via keyboard. Immediately after they’ve been entered, the written communiqués appear in comic-strip-like dialogue balloons projected above the speaker’s head.
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New Project: Chat
Good news! Upcoming project Chat is part of the Second City area I am working on at Ars Electronica. But I will talk about this whole Ars-Second-Life topic later.
The project Chat is of course the next stepp coming from the project Speech Bubble. In fact the concept of Chat is even older than the Speech Bubble project.
Project description goes something like this:
Chat is an interactive installation and a performance in
public space.
Similar to online computer games like Second Life or
World of Warcraft two persons are having a conversation
by writing text messages on a keyboard. The speech
bubble floating above the participants head displays the
written words of this ‘player’ in real time. The wireless
keyboard is connected to a PDA. A very small and light
weight LED beamer projects the text messages on the
translucent speech bubble. The whole equipment and
the speech bubble are attached to a stick which is carried
by a technician. These two technicians do follow each
participant individually so that the speech bubble stays
above the ‘players’ head even if they move.
It is recommended to show this piece at night or dark
places. Crowded clubs or conferences with many people
on a spot are a good environment to run this installation.
There is a more detailed german text version which will be translated for the AEC catalogue.
More infos about Ars Electronica and Second Life coming soon. Nice projects and workshops. It sgoing to be fun.
(By the way, the comment of Ahmet made me blog this. Sure, everybody wants the interactive speech bubble. Although I do like the first version very much)