David White at Oxford University is looking for people to fill in this questionnaire about identity in spaces like Second Life.Here are screen grabs of a few of my answers from the survey.
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Looking at glittery animated GIF’s
This is a screanshot of a MySpace background I loaded onto my blog to test it out. It was lovely blinking away but it made the text/research inaccessible. I’ve been looking at these stamps just as I did as a child with a special sticker on my best notebook, marking it as my territory. I have yet to find the right thing for me. I made some of these blinking GIF’s years ago and dropped them into a Director CD-ROM adventure into a dream. They are still on a zip disk probably sitting peacefully at the bottom of a landfill somewhere in Canada…Olia Lialina is one to follow for her work with glitter and animated GIF’s and other such visual stimuli. Her article Vernacular Web 2 wraps a context around the design/layout of the blog and the MySpace account in forming indicators of identity; signifiers of status, mood, likes and dislikes, affiliations.I have pinched the following background info from a paper by Lialina to highlight that pinpointing the actual source is difficult when speaking about the ‘current’ situation of making/carving out social space and identity on the internet. The paper is found here.
In the beginning this article was an “index.html” saved in the “glitter” folder. Then it got the working title “The work of users in times of perfect templates”. Then it became “Rich User Experience for the Poor” and was presented at the New Network Theory conference. After the presentation, UCSB professor Alan Lui suggested to rename it to “Homesick”. But for the moment I’ll leave it as
My new hair arrived from China this morning
Notes from today
New work
A snap of the first in a new series. This one is Leeds. To come are Toronto, New York, and London. All specific locations to be confirmed. The research related to the locations will appear here. I’m looking for 1st Life locations that are true to scale, detail, general purpose in Second Life. If anyone can recommend these ‘dual’ places please send me an email.
Fireworks seen from the attic
Sketchbook
Snap of recent geo-location
I have been geo-locating from my iPhone using InstaMapper GPS Tracker application. Above is an embedded map of my most recent location. However, it is the actual trails that this applications provides on their site that I find more intersting. Unfortunately the trail is not visible outside of their website, so periodically I will capture an image of it.
Snap of recent geo-locationOriginally uploaded by meganleigh72 Hours in Second Life
‘On Thursday October 12th, Versu Richelieu entered a window at the corner of 39th Street and 5th Avenue in New York City. For the next 3 days, she stayed in the window and built out a replica of the city surrounding her. The story captivated the imagination of the internet community as hundreds of thousands of people logged into nyclivewindow.com to watch her progress in realtime.’ credit here
Today’s Visualization: Still tackling this transfer document.
megansmith.ca blog structure
I generated this HTML Graph from a link I found on the Lilyapp.og site. The Processing source code is written by Sala and is available to use and alter.
What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
EVA London 2008
I just spent three days at EVA London held at the British Computer Society in Covent Garden. The conference was jointly hosted by Computer Arts Society.
Among the speakers Julie Tolmie, Steve DiPaola, and Kia Ng were among my favorites with their incredible research into teaching methods for string instruments, visualizing mathematical theory, and Vision Science analysed through Rembrandt paintings. Rebecca Gamble also gave an interesting presentation on the use of new technologies for participatory art, and Yvonne Desmond spoke about the importance to archive the artistic process and the development of the ArtLog at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
I took part in the Research Workshop on the first day of the conference where I presented elements of my research to a fellow community of PhD students. It’s relaxed setting led to a important exchange and the creation of a new network. I am looking forward to next year already!