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[microsound] interactive installation/environment discussion list?



hey folks,

since you're the most consistently interesting and clued-up bunch of all the arts-related mailing lists i'm on, could you recommend a discussion list devoted to 'experience of space' kind of interactive installations?

i make them myself, sometimes, but i don't have any formal art training and so i feel like i'm in a conceptual void when i try and talk about them to other people, because i'm always a lot more interested in how they feel to be in than what they might 'mean'. for example, i went for a bike ride along a canal the other day, along a long straight stretch that had equally spaced trees along both sides of the path for about 3 km constantly, and got an idea for a piece that sensed how fast a cyclist was going and made a pulse of light seem to travel up the path alongside them (using many microcontrol'd LEDs), with a soundtrack to match (using many speakers), so that if the cyclist slowed down the soundtrack would continue at the same speed, along the path.

i don't know how to talk about this other than as an experience. i know somehow that there's a lot of meanings that can be extracted from this, and i know i'm trying to say something myself about the experience of cycling at speed down long tunnels - but then i go and i see works that actually get exhibited and often there's a whole lot more conceptual description to them, but to my mind at least often a whole lot less interest in the actual experience of the thing.

so, what i'm looking for really is a good place to lurk and observe, so i can learn to write about my ideas in the right kind of way...

thanks in advance :-)
d

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damian stewart | +31 6 5902 5782 |  damian@xxxxxxxxxx
frey | live art with machines | http://www.frey.co.nz

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