Title Information
Title
Anxiety of Influence: Artistic Identity in Interactive New Media
Name: Personal
Name Part
Byron, Robert
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creator
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2013
Physical Description
Extent
13, 120 p.
digitalOrigin
born digital
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Thesis (Ph.D. -- Brown University (2013)
Name: Personal
Name Part
Winkler, Todd
Role
Role Term: Text
Director
Name: Personal
Name Part
Rovan, Joseph
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Dannenberg, Roger
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Dubois, Luke
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Winkler, Todd
Role
Role Term: Text
Director
Name: Personal
Name Part
Rovan, Joseph
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Dannenberg, Roger
Role
Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Personal
Name Part
Dubois, Luke
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Role Term: Text
Reader
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University. Music: Computer Music and Multimedia Composition
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Role Term: Text
sponsor
Genre (aat)
theses
Subject
Topic
new media
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Topic
intermedia
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Topic
3D animation
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Topic
live performance
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electro-acoustic performance
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audiovision
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interactive design
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Topic
UX design
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Topic
embedded development
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Topic
Mapping techniques
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Topic
digital performance
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dance performance
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Topic
human/computer interaction. sound design
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Topic
real-time sound & image
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Topic
surround sound
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1748191")
Topic
New media art
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1744695")
Topic
Intermediality
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1380188")
Topic
OpenGL
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/975998")
Topic
Interactive multimedia--Design
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/887435")
Topic
Dance--Performances
Subject (FAST) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1139567")
Topic
Surround-sound systems
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20131219
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eng
Language Term: Text
English
Abstract
Motivated by questions posed to the new media artist, concerning the difficulties with coming up with an innovative artistic style in interactive media performance, this dissertation takes as a departure point a self-created multimedia work for a dancer, 5.1 surround sound, and 3-channel HD interactive projection. The work uses a custom-built wireless gestural interface to translate kinetic energy from the performer, into real-time multichannel synthetic sound and real- time OpenGL graphics. Throughout my preliminary research I became very much aware of the importance of influence on not only creative endeavors in general, but also the influential nature of the ever-evolving technologies available.<br/>This paper attempts, firstly, to place the new work in the context of these available technologies, within a sociological context for the contemporary artist, and secondly, to analyze how personal artistic style and voice can be transposed through so many different converging elements, all the while, encompassing design, technological enhancements &amp; spontaneous performance.<br/>The over-arching thesis was to observe the journey of self-discovery of creating the piece, to discover how it fits in with the history of interactive media and new media art today.<br/>In its entirety, the paper follows a dual purpose. Firstly, it attempts to formalize a perception of the self in this century, via the convergence of mind and body, through its relationship to software and hardware. Any deduced conclusions are then pitted against an analysis of the work itself.<br/>In conclusion, it is useful to re-evaluate the juxtaposition of disparate media paradigms, as reconciled by the human body, to create a new way of thinking about the marriage between the moving digital image and digital sound in the context of time - as instigated by the translation of kinetic movement.
Identifier: DOI
10.7301/Z00R9MRC
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dissertations