Rat Storyrats
data mining
exits
total inmersion
the sorcerers' convention
motion of the ocean
patterns in motion
bedtime story
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Data Deluge

 

 

Horsing Around, Flying High

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ursyn@unco.edu

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Four Stories:
1. A Bedtime Story
2. Motion of the Ocean
3. Patterns in Motion
4. The Sorcerer's Convention

 

 


 

 

 


 

A Bed- time Story

 

Brief description: A victorious battle re-told by the villagers.

Descriptive Statement:
Brief description of the storyline: Usually, bedtime stories are calm, serene, and they end well, so you can sleep well. This story has also a happy ending, but final military victory has been gained at the cost of the disasters of war: macabre fights and brutal battles. Nightmarish images show the price of a conquest paid by people from both sides. An orchestra conductor stands as a metaphor of a knight fighting in a battle.
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time, programs written in Fortran.
Hardware: Macintosh, Vax, scanner, digital camera
Techniques: It has been a collaborative effort: my computer graphics were superimposed over a video recording of the ballet performance choreographed by Sandra Minton and juxtaposed on the videotaped meteorological clips taken by Walter A. Lyons, according to music by Philip Glass.

This is a story about war and peace.  The victory makes the nightmares go away.  Every stoey has more then one side.  The difference between gaming and storytelling will diminish.

Still Image
Brief Description: A bedtime story about a war time

3:20       

Imaging and Video
Anna Ursyn
Dance Director
Sandra Minton
Music
Toby. Rush
"Concerto for Clarinet and Wind"
Meteorological Video Clips
Walter A. Lyons
Dancers
Kelly Bayes
Jennifer Bredehoft
Jin-Jo Maddy
Jacob Kames Mora
Thaddeus Servantez
Jane Sokolik
Selena Ylarraz


 

Data Mining
Imaging and Video Anna Ursyn
Music "Sonata for Vioin - III" by Toby Rush
Descriptive Statement: Humans create cities, whereas a city metaphor reflects data sets.

What technological and human worlds have in common? Humans create cities, whereas a city metaphor reflects rhythm and organization of big data sets and makes data mining easier.
My objective is to juxtapose the regularity of nature with man's intellectual constructions. Natural order guides our understanding of big data sets related to network analysis, when we employ physical analogies of the data, render the data graphically, explore them ‘by eye’ and interact in real time. Observers — whether artists or technology experts — perceive such relationships from different perspectives and different points of view.
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time, programs written in Fortran.
Hardware: Macintosh,, digital camera
Techniques: Computer plots obtained using Fortran, IGL and transformed into photosilkscreens for color variation were applied on a surface of a mirror to create an image of a city. A short animated film with people in motion has been projected on this mirror surface, just creating a reflection of people’s movement. Thus, the image of the city has been juxtaposed with the animated actions, to show how a big city life involves individual life events and daily routines.

Data Mining was featured at the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery "Synaesthesia" Sue Gollifer, Chair, Computer Animation Festival

and
Eurographics
also

Victory Media Network, Dallas, TX

 

Motion of the Ocean

Imaging and Video
Anna Ursyn
Dance Director
Sandra Minton
Music
Robert Ehle
"Lhuntsi Dzong"
Meteorological Video Clips
Walter A. Lyons
Dancers
Kelly Bayes
Jennifer Bredehoft
Jin-Jo Maddy
Jacob Kames Mora
Thaddeus Servantez
Jane Sokolik
Selena Ylarraz

Life in the depths as we may imagine it.

Brief description of the storyline: Ocean life has various concealed actions kept hidden from our view, present in tales and legends. It may not be fully explored yet, in terms of metaphors and beliefs.

Descriptive Statement:
Brief description of the storyline: Ocean life has various concealed actions kept hidden from our view, present in tales and legends. It may not be fully explored yet, in terms of metaphors and beliefs.
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time, programs written in Fortran.
Hardware: Macintosh, Vax, scanner, digital camera

Techniques: It has been a collaborative effort: my computer graphics were superimposed over a video recording of the ballet performance choreographed by Sandra Minton and juxtaposed on the videotaped meteorological clips taken by Walter A. Lyons
2:17     

 

 

Patterns in Motion

Descriptive Statement: Humans and geometric forms dance to music of Philip Glass
Brief description of the storyline: Humans -- the truly organic beings -- are juxtaposed with coexisting geometric patterns in motion correlated with music.
Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time, programs written in Fortran.
Hardware: Macintosh, Vax, scanner, digital camera

5:07    

Techniques: It has been a collaborative effort: my computer graphics were superimposed over a video recording of the ballet performance choreographed by Sandra Minton and juxtaposed on the videotaped meteorological clips taken by Walter A. Lyons
www.FMA-Research.com
walyons@frii.com

  

Imaging and Video
Anna Ursyn
Dance Director
Sandra Minton
Music
Robert Ehle
"Gazals (Earthgarden) Evening, Night"
Meteorological Video Clips
Walter A. Lyons
Dancers
Kelly Bayes
Jennifer Bredehoft
Jin-Jo Maddy
Jacob Kames Mora
Thaddeus Servantez
Jane Sokolik
Selena Ylarraz

 

 

Imaging and Video
Anna Ursyn
Dance Director
Sandra Minton
Music
Robert Ehle
"Aria for Trumpet and JAzz Band"
Meteorological Video Clips
Walter A. Lyons
Dancers
Kelly Bayes
Jennifer Bredehoft
Jin-Jo Maddy
Jane Sokolik
Selena Ylarraz

 

The Sorcerers' Convention


A group of sorcerers challenge themselves to call forth weather fomenting forces.
2:23
  Brief Description: Sorcerers’ excitement comes from their playing with lightnings and thunders

Software: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Quick Time, programs written in Fortran.
Hardware: Macintosh, Vax, scanner, digital camera
Techniques: It has been a collaborative effort: my computer graphics were superimposed over a video recording of the ballet performance choreographed by Sandra Minton and juxtaposed on the videotaped meteorological clips taken by Walter A. Lyons,
www.FMA-Research.com
walyons@frii.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Woot
Visibility
Uptown
UnkindMankind
The Insiders
The Achievers
Rondo
Playtime
Plans for a Plane
Noise Control
More but Less
Memories from Far Away
Gusty Winds Possible
Fragile Balance
Horse Stories
Green Architecture
Good Morning
Fire of Night
Plans for a Plane
Equinox
Ecosphere
After Hours
Abstraction Ladder
3611 Blue Spruce Drive
All Roads Lead to Somethin'
Complexity
Clean Water Act
City Center
Caution Do Not Enter
AVery Fine Year
After Hours

Exits

People Create Computers, computers transform data into information visualization, which converts information into picture form.

Music: Concerto for Clarinet and Winds by Toby Rush 1:50
Hardware: Macintosh, Vax, scanner, digital camera

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Music
Toby Rush
"Moto Perpetuo"
Dance Director
Sandra Minton
Feel close to the City collective madness – open all night places, tables for two, as seen through the city windows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Immersion