Aesthetics of Interactive ArtsAssignment 2

Anticipation, Aesthetics and Innovation

David Leonnig

Innovation - Ripstop NylonLightweight, synthetic Fabric with Cross Fibers

Aids Mans Ability to Fly - Wingsuit

Innovation - MP3 CompressionDigital Compression to Expedite Download, Reduce Size

Innovation - PhotographyUsing radiant energy to capture images on film or

CCD

Music and sound easily captured, reproduced, shared

Allows the miniature world to be seen - Microphotography

Ripstop NylonInnovation

• Nylon invented in 1935 by Dupont

• Dr. Wallace Hume Carothers - February 28, 1935

• Used to replace silk in women’s stockings

• Used for hot air balloons

• Used since in clothing, camping & extreme sports gear - lightweight, durable and wind resistance

• Aids Mans Ability to Fly - Wingsuit

Innovation - Ripstop NylonLightweight, synthetic Fabric with Cross Fibers

http://villageofjoy.com/most-amazing-sport-in-the-world-wingsuit-flying/

Windsuit Base Jumpers• Roaring wind in

your ears - unbelievable

• As close as mancomes to flying withoutassistance

• Art in the airwith out a balloon or aparachute

The Art of Birdmen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N34eMz_rY_U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWYIynY16k&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0tU3Hy7et8&feature=related

Digital/MP3 CompressionInnovation

• 1987 Digidesign markets "Sound Tools," a Macintosh-based digital workstation using DAT as its source and storage medium.

• 1991Alesis unveils the ADAT, the first affordable digital multitrack recorder.Apple debuts the "QuickTime" multimedia format.

• 1995Iomega debuts high-capacity "Jaz" and "Zip" drives, useful as removable storage media for hard-disk recordings.

• 1996Experimental digital recordings are made at 24 bits and 96 kHz.

Digital/MP3 CompressionInnovation

• 1997DVD videodiscs and players introduced. 6-channel surround sound audio expected to supplant the CD as the chosen playback

• 1999 MP-3 players for downloaded Internet audio appear.

• 2001October 22, 2001 - Apple introduces the iPod

• 2003Apple introduces iTunes and iTunes Music Store for Windows

• 2005Fifth-generation Video iPod. Apple sells music videos and TV shows online

Digital/MP3 Compression

Digital/MP3 Compression

• What your ears no longer hear

• How much vibration comes from an ear bud

• The sound of silence and of deep meaning

Digital/MP3 Compression

• Examples “left” http://www.responsibleradio.com/mp3s/earsleft.mp3

• and “right” http://www.responsibleradio.com/mp3s/earsright.mp3

Affordable Microphotography

Innovation

• Photography inventedLouis Daguerre was the inventor of the first practical process of photography. In 1829, he formed a partnership with Joseph Nicephore Niepce to improve Niepce’s process. In 1839, Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography, naming it after himself - the daguerreotype.

• Micro-Photography...is photography on a vastly reduced scale, to be observed using a microscope or projected. Though George Shadbolt is credited with being the inventor of micro-photography, the first known example of micro-photography was by John Benjamin Dancer in 1839, when he produced photographs 15mm in diameter.

Affordable Microphotography• Lincoln was the first president widely

photographed, and the Civil War was the first war captured by photographic plates

• Micro-photography makes possible the art of digitally photographing the details of small things

Affordable Microphotography• The process allows the eye to see a different

perspective than previously available. It also allows us to consider texture and form in the smallest of manufactured and living designs.

The End• I wanted to experience the wind in my

ears

• I wanted to see things my eyes couldn’t see

• I want to hear more, not less, of aesthetically pleasing sounds

• I want to know more of things we all can now imagine and experience

• In our digital world, our appreciation of everything - except sound - seems better.

Bibliography• Louis Daguerre -http://inventors.about.com/od/dstartinventions/a/Daguerreotype.htm

• http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/photography

• http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/micro_ph.htm

• Audio Engineering Society Historical Committeehttp://www.aes.org/aeshc/docs/audio.history.timeline.html

• The Perfect Thing. How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture and Coolness Stephen Levy, Simon & Shuster, (c) 2006

• http://villageofjoy.com/most-amazing-sport-in-the-world-wingsuit-flying/

• http://www.marcasmcphee.com/graphics/blog/Wingsuit-public%20domain.jpg

• http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/gofast/27915/images/27915-hi-luigi2.jpg

• http://dvice.com/pics/Wingsuit.jpg (part of the Sci Fi online network)

• http://howsoonis08.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/wingsuit.jpg

• http://www.johenrik.com/var/storage/images-versioned/5779/1-eng-GB/wingsuit1.jpg

• Texas Instruments Incorporated, electronmicroscope image of DMD. 1996

• Billy Erwin, Plano Photography Club, 2007-2008