This is an absolutely amazing piece by Alan Sondheim.
98 Mbs and worth every second of the wait.
michael

> non-doing
>
>
> video length - 7+ minutes
>
> http://www.asondheim.org/wvus.mov
>
> beware of the 98 megabytes; this is as reduced as I
> could make the video
> for the online translation of the West Virginia
> University exhibition,
> still keeping a degree of legibility -
>
> this was created with motion capture equipment that
> was remapped on and
> off the body, into heaps, splits, joins, rolls
>
> "not-doing references releasing oneself both to the
> information inherent
> in the world, and to the potential quietude at the
> heart of it. not-doing
> references the body, language, and sexuality -
> lassitude, languor
>
> "finger pointing at the moon
>
> "the painting is Korean, of unknown provenance
> the cabinet photographs are of local provenance
> the opera glasses adhere to the painting
> the opera glasses of Parisian provenance,
> nineteenth-century
>
> "the sound track is modified from an application
> that 'sounds' the
> wireless connections in the world. the sites chosen
> were City Hall Park,
> New York, my loft in Brooklyn, New York, and New
> York University at
> Washington Square Park.
>
> "the visuals were created in part at the VEL,
> Virtual Environments Lab,
> here at the university.
>
> "software used includes:
>
> "SAM for translating motion-capture to .bvh files
> Poser 4 and 5 for translating .bvh files to poser
> imagery
> CoolEdit for sound modification
> NetStumbler for WiFi gathering
> An Mp3 application for converting NetStumbler output
> Adobe Premier for primary editing
> ACDC for image file conversion
> Photoshop 5.5 for image creation
> Blender for 3d modeling
> Quicktime for image file conversion
> Mathematica for still image manipulation





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