User Groups
InterAccess' studio is a place where people can enter at any level and map out new territories of thought and invention. Here, both collaborative and individual projects are fostered and supported: from concept development, through production to exhibition and dissemination. Continuous hands-on experimentation allows participants to compare, play with and develop new methodologies in order to accelerate their own research. Some research projects developed in collaboration with InterAccess include:
IO Media
Ongoinghttp://interaccess.org/studio/iomedia.php
I/O Media is a collaborative collective of sound and video artists exploring real-time performance in an improvised construction that is reminiscent of 1960's free-jazz.
The fluctuating group of participants utilize a wide variety of instruments to make their audio/video compositions, including homemade hardware, customized software applications, analog synthesizers, samplers, and video mixers. Members of the group also experiment with performance techniques such as live sampling, real-time sample manipulation, and audio/video interaction.
Art Interface Device
Ongoinghttp://aid.interaccess.org
The Art Interface Device (AID) is a microprocessor platform for building electronic installation art. It can also be used as an interface between such artworks and computers. It will enable the artworks to respond to people and the physical environment. AID was developed in the InterAccess studio, facilitated by Mike Steventon. The group continues to meet to develop the project on Sundays at InterAccess.
[Territoires Ouverts — Open Territories]
2004http://www.tot.sat.qc.ca/ index_e.html
The TOT project [Territoires Ouverts — Open Territories] aims at the emergence of a strong cultural expression that relies on the creativity of a new generation of artists and authors and leading interface and network technologies. A network of partners will enable the scientific, artistic and cultural communities to gather together to address issues of creation, dissemination and development of new audiences. Accordingly to its mandate, the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), together with its network of institutional and private partners, will be able to open the broadband network environment to talented creators who are ideally placed to illustrate broadband's potential as a means of avant-garde cultural expression. To accomplish this goal, the SAT intends to focus its energies on the development of three creative platforms to be deployed on the Canadian broadband network, which the SAT will then put at the disposal of various creators. Interaccess was the research partner for TOT2 in the creation of the pixelTANGO visual performance software, with Ben Bogart, an InterAccess member, leading development. InterAccess continues to be involved in the project as a participant and Ben Bogart continues to lead the development of pixelTANGO.
playList
2004http://www.playlistnetwork.com
playList is an authoring environment for the creation of non-linear content that will be delivered via broadband networks. A web-based authoring environment allows artists to work with media that is sorted in a shared database. The work is authored conversationally, with the artists editing and adding segments to one another's work in order to continue existing narratives or introduce new tangential paths. Each original clip of audio or video contains metadata: associated notes, annotations and facts pertaining to that particular clip. Metadata is generated automatically by the system but can also be created intentionally by the artists or others who have been invited to add their notes and commentary. The metadata provides the basis for editing and reconfiguring the displayed work in accordance with viewer input. A web browser interface for the public permits multiple navigations through streaming media. To watch, the viewer enters search terms or keywords. Using this input, the browser returns a 3D model of the movie that retains the artists' narrative decisions while simultaneously conforming its orientation to the viewer's choice of emphasis. Embedded keyframes permit the viewer to initiate video playback from any unique point in the 3D model. The number of possible versions of the work that can be viewed by the public online is virtually limitless. playList is a project by Willy LeMaitre and Eric Rosenzveig.
