helloearth labs

2008-09-01T08:15:00.002+02:00

what are the parameters of different forms of meeting in different situations, places ?

what if one of the parameter changes?
if you for example are on four legs instead of 2 and meet other people in an appartment?

or talk on a mobile phone while you see each other as you talk to each other?

or have an reception after a movie premiere in silence?

or

2008-08-31T21:29:00.004+02:00

some examples on what we do TOGETHER

2008-08-31T19:47:00.006+02:00

Sleep Work Go to war Repair sth Play Help Watch animals

Cut hair Protest Go on strike

Follow rules Make history Get drunk Play ping pong

Compete Sing Laugh Massage Hold each other Make news

Create Fashions Murder (suicide?)

Global warming Make kids

2008-08-31T19:39:00.002+02:00

Lets go tomorrow into an apartement. Intimacy.
Many interesting situations took place. We are all pets.
We are all guests and hosts one after the other, interchanging.
We take a thing that stand around and pass it on.

We lay together and create a space for resting. there we are together. It is as simple as that.

2008-08-31T19:27:00.008+02:00

a question,

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What is it today that is not mediated in some way, is there any area of life at all, where mediated information/ experience has not and never had any influence?

ghost

2008-08-31T19:12:00.004+02:00

Capturing the non physical influences in daily life in material is exciting.

Relating to other people with mobile phones is exciting.

It is exiting to be contacted, to get a phone call, a sms. The joy of being talked to, the joy that somebody turns the attention to you as her or she is for example singing a song for you in the phone.

The distance, the anonymity – the person is far way, there is no big risk involved. The potential of that space, from imagined person to a person physically present.

I walk down the street, receive a call , and somebody is singing a song for me. The voice comes closer, suddenly I hear it right beside me, the he is, the person is singing, right beside me, through the phone, and on the street.

he walks faster, walks by me, dissapears on a big square. he has no body , his body is gone, as I listen to the intimate song through the phone, right into my ear, and see him dissappear on the square.

The ghost like experiences of perceiving a person altering in direct contact and through mediated space.

The ghosts like experience, the absence present all day around, just more blurred, not made so explicit available as in some of the set ups we tested.

The virutality of space, as sounds or information of spaces overlay.

The virutality of our own minds, as they react on memory, imagination, and mash ups of different combinations of present sensory experience and other factors, often without being aware.

Turning towards and evolving in the myth of reality, the myth of a city, that is asleep inside our cells, embedded in our dreams and has a hope, a curiousity to wake up.

paradox and fabrications

2008-08-31T19:08:00.001+02:00

Finally. There is a large stone on a street corner, like a crossroads, the pulse of a city can be experienced. The true question of framing comes up. How does one frame experience, when one gets a glimps of the true vastness fo the moment. Any frame is a fabrication. Where one should avoid any. Here on this street corner, please avoid all fabrications, please avoid all and any distractions, including this performance, including my voice, and yours. Here you can just sit and see humanity, reality. as you see it , right now, right there.

2008-08-31T19:07:00.002+02:00

Speaking with a few residence in Ørsted, their comments about living there seemed straight out of the promotional material of the place. Was it because the experience of living there matches the intention of the architects, I don’t know.

..in the process of walking...

2008-08-31T19:03:00.002+02:00

I am a voyer in Nørrebro. I don’t know what the people here would like to make happen in such a project? Would they care? Am I trying to connect them to a part of the city because of reasons that are significant?

I know I come closer to the place each time I walk. Each time I think of the environment as a potential for experience

...tech...and ...presence

2008-08-31T18:59:00.001+02:00

Then later I go for a walk with a Tech master. How can we make a space active, in a way it is not already. What am I trying to do? Direct perception? Limit perception to cause impressions? Limit impressions to creat perceptions? Create situations for authentic experiencing of preconceived ideas? As I stand infront of this deserted gas station in the middle of the city I have to ask my self what is meaningful for me here? What is meaningful in a collective sense? What is possible in the medium of Percpetual Interventions, and what does technology offer to enhance this.

Will having devices that `know` where I am and `sense` where I am help bring me here? An unexpected response form the environment, feedbacking my presence to me. We know you are here, and you should know you are connected to others, now you know you matter. You leave a residue which is important, as we are all connected, we matter, and us know this matters even more.

Then I call you as a friend, geniounly interested. I am not performing, I really want to know. I can tell you where I am as well. I like getting SMS instructions, leaves me free to interpret. When I hear your voice I feel more captured, more distanced from this place.

intervene or faciltate

2008-08-31T18:56:00.001+02:00

I want to see people carrying the same object down the street, a huge collaboration carrying stones to some corner. I have a hard time holding back the desire to effect the on going life here in a new. It is artistic arrogance.

what makes up "frames for experiencing" in this work...

2008-08-31T18:54:00.001+02:00

I keep thinking about the parameters for interventions as they are called here. The vector of the sense, the vector of the situation created, the vector of the information given, the vector of the action itself, whether initiated by the audience o by a performer or environment, and the vector of the audience member themselves, how they come and what is their preoccupation and disposition. All these are potential intervention entry points, and can all effect perception.

...

2008-08-31T18:50:00.001+02:00

We were walking in a state of Pure Perception, then with attention to reflection and then further with attention to third party reflection or references. There are many layers to the experience of traveling through the city. I kept looking for holes in the city places that lead into the belly of it. Places that were partially out side the stream. I kept wanting to put things in the bushes or in the air vents of the buildings. Wanting to bring the inside out and have the life inside exposed. Or place a sofa on the street and have folk meet, sit or not, making an open invitation.

2008-07-12T18:21:00.005+02:00

direct perception

2008-07-12T17:33:00.004+02:00

We experimented with walks, activating diffrent channels of perceiving and observed how our experience of reality and surrounding changes.
We took walks around the same block, focusing on registering different impulses : those of memory, those of information and those of direct perception.
We were surprised by the power of trying to stay in direct perception- a state of mind, that
would allow as much sensory information to enter our minds unfiltered as possible, trying to transcend concepts and memory right in the moment of perceiving. Thus emptying us from preconceived concepts and knowledge.
Walks around the block, in this state of mind, brought us imedietly to a place, we have not been before. As we continued walking, the well known neighborhood kept emerging and surprise us. Each one of us in a different and very personnel way.
How simple and powerful to just tune yourself and walk as a base to engage in a city, I thought.

location , satellites, gps

2008-07-12T17:26:00.004+02:00

A week of fumbling through the mist of finding out about sensors, gps, software in mobile phones, hidden electronic and data information in a city.

where I learned

that a GPS, which is a device that locates you in space and time with the help of satellites , can get you really lost. They tell you that you move at a speed of 50 km as you are standing still at a street corner. Satellites are not always sure where you are and make your position bounce rapidly back and forth as signals reflect in a city.

that a GPS needs some time to wake up after it was out of signal, first than it will relocate you.

that "dead"satellites may cover the sky and not allow signals to go through, thus blocking the sky.These satellites are a kind of waste, that nobody knows what to do with.

the presence project- a research at stanford university

2008-07-02T22:42:00.011+02:00

visit their webpage! click above or http://presence.stanford.edu:3455/Collaboratory/493

they write:
" Amongst others , our questions are:

What is the relationship between presence and absence?
Is presence synonymous with 'being in the moment'?
Can technology document presence?
Can technology produce presence?
What are the signifiers of presence?
Is there a relationship between presence and awareness? presence and consciousness?
What is co-presence?
Can presence be traced?
What is correlational presence?
Does presence imply distance - non presence?
What is the relationship between presence and aura?
Is presence a form of immersion?
What is a 'break in presence'?

2008-07-02T21:59:00.000+02:00

2008-07-02T21:53:00.000+02:00

where to rest in this city?

2008-07-02T21:47:00.003+02:00

or sleep?

....he layed down right in the middle of a square, that usually is used as a football field right in the middle of a busy area in town. There was no one right now, but him.

if you were

2008-07-02T21:43:00.000+02:00

1year old
or 2 years old
or 3 years old
or 5 years old
or 37 years old
or 55 years old
or 87 years old

whom would you want to meet?
what would you do? or not do? or perhaps do?

where would aliens land in this city ?

2008-07-02T21:37:00.000+02:00

and what would they do ? and what would they enjoy? and what would surprise them? and whom would they enjoy to meet? and what would they say? and what would they do? what would we call it, the things they do? would we do them together? would you join in?

what do you enjoy to do together?

2008-07-02T21:36:00.000+02:00

let us know.

list of questions that generate more questions

2008-07-02T21:31:00.000+02:00

please add

...about to start

2008-07-02T19:59:00.005+02:00

about to start a two week excursion on Nørrebro and Ørested....lots of questions and thanks god not answers, yet. mette, the leader of the library at nørrebro, lends us her office as meeting space- thank you mette for so much openess, trust, and uncomplicated agreements!

i took a bike ride this afternoon in the area, people, people, people, out on playgrounds, benches, bike tracks , and many hidden behind open windows with curtains flattering out in summer heat. a block for pensionists, a center for " advice for young people", another block where mostly immigrant families live. people in blocks of houses.
one of the librarians telling me about her activity where she goes out and visits people that just got a baby and offers story telling and books right from the birth up to the children are about 9 years old. she also told me that many people do very rarely leave this area, and going downtown is a seldom experience for many.

i turn down a small path. end up on a bridge , S-trains passing and a view into an wide open landscape, green long grass, violet flowers swaying in warm summer the air.

is there anybody home ?

taking another turn, somebody waiting nervously for an elevator, somebody piing on a house wall, a couple of teenagers spraying graffity, a couple of elders drinking beer and discussing loudly, others watching them, others pass buy, their chaw-bones tense and shivering slightly.
the people in the midst of a square surrounded by heavy trafficked streets, buses, cars, bikes, and a train line just beside, squeezed on a little square with flower pots and sipping cafe latte or coke or , there bodies stretched out on small chairs, apparently relaxed.

biking quicker, things coming towards me, pass by , fly by, path gradually through my body as one big mass. form of material, starting points and ends are dissolving into one fluid mass .
and i think of places and things, where things shift form more quickly than on this earth. and and what and where they are on this earth.
hello!