Link of the day 2004-02-03 - By toxi
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Thomas Williams wrote:
> Interactivity will make the rest of the world (not just
> programmers) say 'wow' when they experience it. People can only passivley
> view quicktimes but they can actively experience shockwave.
thomas, you're right of course, only you have to take the history of the
demo scene into account, where a demo's purpose is a mixture of: effects
for the sake of effects, showing off geekness, greetings, party invites,
hacker intros etc. you can't appreciate or "judge" demos without this
context and certain knowledge of programming. most demos are still
released at/for parties, where they're shown as large screen projection
pieces, situations where interaction isn't very practical. unlike with
other corners of todays's art world, sceners have less interest in
analysing, "commenting", defining, or engaging in hairsplitting
discussions about what they're doing. the basic morale has always been:
do it. do it yourself. do it better than anyone else. (btw. i wonder if
there're any sceners at nike ;)
even though i understand, and myself am excited about *good* interaction
possibilities, IMHO interaction doesn't make a demo better if it's only
an add-on. if you're going interactive, the interaction concept needs to
be the main idea around everything else in the production is evolving
(e.g. games). having a rollover or some other basic mouse/keyboard
interaction, purely for the sake of "making it interactive" is
v.arguable. so what, i can change the view angle and zoom... it might
broaden the target audience as much as it bores it. giving the user more
control also means a lot more work to put in as you'll have to
limit/control the user input (at least to some extend) to ensure the
flow/consistency of the piece.
in short, i applaude your idea to do something new with your mandrake
project, but make sure you don't belong to those people who take
interaction light-hearted... often it's like opening a can of worms, or
pandora's box ;)
on the other hand, i think there's even bigger potential in the field of
information visualisation, reactive (in the broadest sense) pieces,
sensitive to all sorts of input, physical or purely data. a demoesque
treatment and intelligent interaction would be the perfect couple.
my 2pennies/eurocents...
best, k.
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