saturday, 20/4/96

finally succeeded in downloading moviestar player to allow me to view movies from websites and moviestar maker to remake qt movies for streaming for embedding into sites. also received mail from david rokeby. "Hi komninos, I would be very interested in seeing your cdrom. It sounds very interesting. I haven't done anything like liquid language in many years, but it is always in my mind to do something more. I am working on this "Giver of Names" piece which is sort of the ultimate interactive poetry system. You place objects in front of it, and it constructs metaphors based on what it sees and speaks them out loud. The metaphors are chosen through interactions of ideas in a large interconnected knowledge base. This piece will take a long time before it is finished but it has lead me to investigate a lot of very interesting things. I decided not to make Liquid Language interactive. It was originally interactive, but I found that tha act of interacting took away from the experience of having the text wash over you. Though almost all of the work I have ever done has been interactive, in this case, I decided to remove the interaction. David Rokeby" jon reeves replied to my email saying he was keen to co-operate.

kaz

sunday, 21/4/96

outputted the cyberpoems to video for the performance scheduled for the 16th of may at qut. one hour of animations. also captured the section from the review program(9/95) revp01.movie, 9.5mb, from the abc. tried to compress it as much as i could. got it down to 2.9mb, revcomp.

kaz

monday, 22/4/96

spoke with paul brown, communication design, about addressing his first year design students on monday april 29th from 4 - 6 pm in n516 about my cd-rom and cyberpoetry. arranged with andrew brown to speak to his music students on tuesday april 30th. 5-6pm, m118, on sound in my work, manipulating voices and computer voices.

kaz