[eu-gene] R.O.M.

[Tim Thompson]

Altavista has video and audio web search categories.

Tim Thompson II

 
On Tuesday, July 05, 2005, at 04:24PM, Jim Andrews <jim at vispo.com> wrote:

>Hi Philippe,
>
>That's interesting. Thanks.
>
>Where does R.O.M draw its material from?
>
>Is that material lexically queriable from a web interface? I mean if you
>want some streaming video on "butterflies and walrus" for instance, will it
>return some reference?
>
>Google and some others are good at returning images that are related to some
>lexical query. But I don't know of any similar services concerning video or
>sound. Do you?
>
>ja
>http://vispo.com/temp/Google2.htm (in progress)
>
>
>> We would like to submit the following on-line work to eu-gene:
>>
>> R.O.M. (Re Open Memory)
>> http://digitalbiotope.com/rom
>>
>> by Drone/Aurore Dudevant/Philippe Zulaica, 2005
>>
>> R.O.M. is a generative movie,  an inner world of personal pictures. Each
>> projection is unique and randomly built by your computer - a stream of
>> randomly connected data, drawing a labyrinth through digital accumulation
>> amd digging out a tunnel through sedimented memories.
>>
>> R.O.M. is a book telling a blurred story, one that is continuously
>> regenerated, deleting its own roots, building an unstable film script
>> without respite. Memories become fictions. A field of possibilities. A
>> landscape of accidents. A fertile endless crash. A changing body keeping
>> our memories alive for ever.
>
>
>
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Tim Thompson
Palm Beach Atlantic University
West Palm Beach, Florida