George Lawerence

Panoramic Opportunity

Call for Content for IDA360

Immersive Digital Arena - Experimental Week, February 2010

Do you have high quality; innovative 360° based photographic, video, audio, graphic or animation material that you would like to be shown in a panoramic, immersive environment? This is an exciting opportunity to view and experiment with your work on a large scale alongside other leading panoramic and immersive artists, specialists and media professionals.

ICCI (Innovation for the Creative & Cultural Industries) at the University of Plymouth, in collaboration with Igloo Vision (www.igloovision.com) are hosting a test event in February in preparation for a large scale, week long, public event ‘IDA360’ to be held in Plymouth during October 2010, using a larger 20m diameter x 6m high 360° screen with 6.1 surround sound system.

We would like to invite potential exhibitors to contribute new and experimental work to test within a 12.5 metre diameter immersive arena in February. This test event will be held over 5 days, 15th – 19th February 2010 during which we will show work and explore the possibilities of this viewing environment. We are particularly interested in content that combines image and audio and may contain a narrative.

The material will be shown using five 1080p HD streams combined for one 360° image, run from five PC’s in sync across a network. It is also possible to project 5 standard format screens simultaneously.

At this time we are looking for:
1. One example per person; image, video or audio (video maximum duration 3 minutes, short exerts from longer videos accepted)
2. Resolution: (9600x1080) photographs or (5120 x 768 or 9600 x 1080) for video.
3. Image formats: JPEG, TIFF
4. Video formats: preferably uncompressed QuickTime movies in five separate files. For example a panoramic film made at 5210 x 768 would be sliced into five 1024 x 768 files. These will be converted onsite into the required code for the system we are using
5. If compression is necessary for video files then use Quick Time h.264 compressor, set everything to high quality, 100% and set a key frame for every frame.
6. Video should be at a frame rate: ideally 30fps but others fps acceptable.
7. Audio: stereo wav files are ideal, however you may have created a sound piece in 6.1 in which case you would need to save as 3 separate stereo Wavs. These would need to be flattened to 1) as front & left, 2) as mid & right, 3) as back & right.
8. If you have video with a stereo soundtrack and do not have the ability to extract the audio this can be completed on site.
9. This information is available online: http://plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=28780

Expressions of Interest and a brief overview of your work By 29th January 2010
Copy of your work on CD or DVD, with technical requirements attached By 8th February 2010

Please note that this is an experimental event so that if you have any technical questions such as how to split video into 5 screens, or would wish to carry out experimental work in person; then please contact us by the 29th January.

1. ICCI do not guarantee that any submissions will be shown at the main IDA360 event, October 2010
2. Please do not send original material, ensure you retain a copy, submissions will not be returned.
3. We reserve the right not to display offensive or otherwise inappropriate material and reserve the ultimate right not to display media content for any reason. The University of Plymouth will not be held liable for any eventuality arising from the presentation of media material.
4. By sending work to us you represent that you are the original author of the submission, that you have all the necessary permissions and release forms from individuals, properties and other owners of dominant intellectual property in the relevant jurisdictions.
5. By sending content you licence us the non-exclusive use of your submission for the period of February 2010. Any other use of the material would be subject to an additional agreement.

All work should be sent on CD or DVD only to the address below and include the following information:

Your name, home/business address, e-mail address, telephone number including national code, title of work, location & date produced, File type/ size/ compression, short description, duration and any further information.

ICCI/IDA360
209-210, Smeaton Building,
The University of Plymouth, e: icci@plymouth.ac.uk
Drake Circus,
Plymouth, PL4 8AA t: +44 (0)1752 585060
United Kingdom

w: plymouth.ac.uk/ICCI
Administrator Sarah Hemingway sarah.hemingway@plymouth.ac.uk

Panoramic circuit?

http://www.vimeo.com/985696

street view car sightings

Panoramic works by ULRIKE HEYDENREICH

http://www.vandermieden.com/?page_id=1909

19th International Panorama Conference Istanbul April 16-18

Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Friends
The International Panorama Council and Culture Co., a subsidiary of the
Greater City of Istanbul, are happy to announce the 19th International
Panorama Conference 2010. The conference will take place from 16 through
18 April 2010 at Istanbul, Turkey. A post-conference tour to main
attractions of the city is scheduled on April 19. It is an honour for
IPC to be hosted in this fantastic city which is one of Europe’s 2010
Cultural Capitals.

This is to invite you to participate in the conference. We will deal
with questions of historic panorama paintings and related media forms,
with modern interpretations of panoramas and with the future of the
media. We will also focus on the future of the International Panorama
Conference as a membership association.

We are looking forward to welcoming you in April. The conference is open
to members of IPC and all others interested. So please feel free to
forward this invitation to your partners and friends.

Best regards,
Patrick Deicher M.A.,
Secretary and Member of the Board


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INTERNATIONAL PANORAMA COUNCIL
Secretariat
Patrick Deicher
Hochruetistrasse 39
CH - 6005 Luzern

+41 79 637 31 53
info@panoramapainting.com
www.panoramapainting.com

Guido van der Werve

Small notion on this Dutch artist Guido van der Werve.

With extra interrest in this work:

Nummer negen: The day I didn't turn with the world 2007

Time-lapse photography to HD video. Geographic North Pole. TRT 8'40"

A time laps where the artist is standing for 24 hours at the geographic North Pole, refusing to turn with the world. By turning with the same speed as the earth for a whole day Van Der Werve does not.

some links

Postcards of Bergen: www.bergenskort.com

Library of Congress collection of panoramic photographs: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo

Richard Wentworth, An Area of Outstanding Unnatural beauty: www.artangel.org.uk/projects/2002/an_area_of_outstanding_unnatural_beauty

Bristol Camera Obscura: www.brightbytes.com/cosite/2bristol.html

images

Bergen Itinerary

Programm Panoramic Interchange Bergen week

Monday, Nov. 16th
10 – 11 Artist Talk w. Cecilie Jordheim, Vaskerelven 8,
11-12 walk around Bergen center, possibly funicular Fløybanen

12 – 15.30 Kunstakademiet, C. Sundtsgate 53, 6th floor
Introduction to project
Individual artists presentations

19 hrs. dinner for group at Academy, 8th floor, last artist presentations if necessary

Tuesday
9.30 – 15.30 Kunstakademiet, C. Sundtsgate 53
individual and group work

Wednesday
10.00 – 12.00 Tour of the photographic image collection of the University of Bergen with Solveig Greve

13.00 Tour of the imaging and modelling department of Statoil Hydro, Sandsli with Jens Grimsgaard

19 hrs. dinner, talks at Academy, 8th floor

Thursday
9.00 – 17 hrs. Academy Bustrip to Øygården area off industrial, cultural, and nature heritage of the islands west of Bergen

Friday
Individual work
10.- 15 hrs. groupmeeting Academy
possibly party in the evening?

High Plane by Katrin Sigurdardottir

www.katrinsigurdardottir.info/selected_works/index.html

BRING A THING

It has been suspiciously fine weather here the last month.... please bring warm clothes and boots as well as rain-gear.

other things to bring for seminar:

- everyone is asked to give a presentation of their own art work and thoughts on the project for the group. we will have a laptop and video projector ready for use in Bergen.

- everyone is asked to bring with them something - an object, a piece of information, an image, a sound, a ...- which to their mind gives a telling impression of the place they come from. all items will be presented for the entire group in Bergen and form a collection.

- bring the necessary equipment, eg. cameras, tripods or let me know asap, which equipment you would like to borrow for use in Bergen.

thanks, karen

Bergen Workshop general info

During the Bergen workshop, students and teachers will have presentations of their art work and possibly, introduce their ideas for the project. We will visit the following places:

- Monday, Nov. 16th at 10, gallery talk w. Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim on Polarstar

- image collection of the University of Bergen image collection UIB, and panoramic coastline

- imaging and visualization projects at Statoilhydro

- take a BUS (NEW) tour through the historical cultural, industrial, fishing and and farming land- and seascape around Bergen

- walking tour on the mountains around Bergen

precise schedule for workshop will be announced later

Call: Intermedia Festival of Telematic and Media Arts

Featured Artists: PamelaZ, Luke Dubois, Stephen Drury, Matthew Burtner, Bora Yoon, Big Robot, and Dance Kaleidoscope

Dates: April 23-25, 2010 Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis as well as selected venues in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

The Festival is accepting calls for performance proposals in the following categories:

1. Works that utilize any combination of live players, media and networked communications
2. Real-time and/or interactive installations employing both sound and video. Site-specific works will be considered.
3. Works or performances utilizing a VRT or other CAVE-like system. These works to be performed in Indiana University's Virtual Reality Theater
4. Fixed media works for gallery presentation

For more information, visit the Intermedia Festival website at: http://music.iupui.edu/intermedia/

Every Building on Sunset Strip

Tech links panorama and digital photography

http://www.vrtoolbox.com/

http://www.panoramas.dk/panorama/software.html
http://www.kekus.com/
http://www.picturecode.com/
http://enblend.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fullscreenqtvr.com/
http://www.360cities.net/

Collection of Links (to be regrouped)

Phantom Rides cameras mounted at the front of trains (Ilfracrombe 1898,

Historical panorama Calcutta from boats

Panoramic Society The International Panorama Council with an archive of all painted panoramas

European Southern Observatory

Media Art Net s Oliver Grau on immersion and interaction

International Association of Panoramic Photographers

Werner Nekes filmmaker, artist, collector of optical devices and theorist

Jörn Zehe Artist and former teacher at KHIB working with experimental photography and film

Robert Smithson

Stan Douglas Overture), boats

The Monument Project

Falaise Turcot blog around the green space next to the Turcot Interchange

Walking Turcot Interchange blog on the building and rebulding of the Turcot Yards

Da Vincis Last Supper in Detail

Hypermedia Berlin Mapping Time/Coring Urban Space a research project

New Geographies Project

BUU Bureau for Unstable Urbanism

Michelle Teran and we are here workshop at KHIB

Project description and schedule on Bergen Academy website

Nordic Panoramic Interchange addresses questions of the cultural and political history, the common as well as the divisive nature of the “nordic landscape”. Essentially it will focus on landscape and what a contemporary understanding of a panorama might be or become. Four specific countries have been chosen for their obvious topographical, ethnographical, historical and architectural differences. For example, Norway, Iceland, Vilnius and Sweden all have unique landscapes, mountains and fjords, volcanic terrain, forests and lakes then flat agricultural planes. This is the starting point offering dramatic ranges of distinction. However the aim of the project is not to deal exclusively with the obvious. The notion of landscape can be stretched to the most extreme lengths, including notions as widely apart as a media, political, financial or ecological landscapes. Looking outside of the “traditional” representation of landscape we talk of and experience the following variants.

Hardscape - landscaping the heavily urbanized and suburbanized
Mediascape - how visual media imagery impacts the work
Seascape - depictions of the sea
Softscape - flowers, plants, shrubs and trees
Soundscape - sounds and combinations of sonic immersive environments
Talkscape - socially constructed spaces of human activity
Mindscape – a space for conceptual thinking
Timescape - a space for political and historical discourse

Schedule:

week 47, 16.-21.11.2009 Bergen (lecture Kipphoff on optical devices 18thcentury onwards tp the mass specatcle of the Panorama pf the 19th century, planned fieldtrips include CAVE StatoilHYDRO/Ågotnes supply station, fjordtur, et,al)

week 11, 15.-19.03.2010 Vilnius

week 18, 3.-7.5. 2010 Reykjavik

12.-19.9. 2010 final conference and exhibition in Stockholm

Welcome to Nordic Panoramic Interchange

Artists, that is teachers and students, from the Art Academies of Reykjavik, Vilnius, Stockholm and Bergen will be meeting for workshops in the respective cities, places, landscapes and countries to look at, study and learn, to create a dialogue, to research and develop artistic works related to the idea of the panoramic in the context of a nordic and baltic cultural, social, geographical and historical backdrop.

The project was initiated by Lei Cox and Karen Kipphoff. At this point these artist teachers are involved: Hulda Stefansdottir from Reykjavik, Olav Westphalen from Stockholm and Karen Kipphoff from Bergen.

Nordic Panoramic Interchange is supported by KUNO, the network of 16 Fine Arts Education Institutes of Scandinavia and the Baltic Countries. Nordic panoramic Interchange will get together in Umeå this weekend, Oct.23-25th to determine the further time and workshop plan.