{"id":3662,"date":"2008-10-02T16:46:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/10\/02\/event-guide-cfc-media-lab-prototype-launch-at-nuit-blanche\/"},"modified":"2008-10-02T16:56:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T20:56:26","slug":"event-guide-cfc-media-lab-prototype-launch-at-nuit-blanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/10\/02\/event-guide-cfc-media-lab-prototype-launch-at-nuit-blanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Guide: CFC Media Lab prototype launch at Nuit Blanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3167\/2907439149_e88818369d.jpg?v=0\" height=\"481\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Images from TRANSPORT<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each year the Canadian Film Centre&#8217;s Media Lab <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfccreates.com\/exhibition\">launches a new crop of new media prototypes<\/a> created by lab residents. The prototypes can be viewed by the public all night long during Nuit Blanche at the Lennox Gallery at 12 Ossington (just north of Queen), in the middle of Zone C, just as they were <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/09\/28\/nuit-blanche-interactive-alchemy\/\">last year<\/a> . CFC Media Lab is where we developed [murmur] back in 2002, and their commitment to telling stories using digital media has resulted in quite a few public-space focused projects. Below are the new prototypes to be unveiled this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.translucence.ca\/transport\">TRANSPORT: Life Happens In Public Transport<\/a> <\/strong>&#8211; A series of very short video clips of stories that happened on buses, streetcars and trains.\u00a0 Delivered on interactive screens, TRANSPORT invites us to think of public transport as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153third space\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and of commuting as an occasion for insight into our fellow travellers.\u00a0 A bus, a train, or a station, is a place where we witness the life of others; a place of chance encounters; a place where amusing and alarming things can happen; a place of romance and heartbreak.\u00a0 The interactive screens, shaped like a regular city poster, are meant to be installed in public transport nodes: subway platforms, streetcar stations, bus-stops; all places where people find themselves waiting.\u00a0 The initial image the viewer sees on the screen is a black and white still of the first frame of a micro-narrative clip with the tag line: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153TRANSPORT: life happens in public transport\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00a0 A camera and face-tracking software then search for a viewer.\u00a0 If the viewer pauses in front of the screen, colour begins to seep into the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153poster\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the narrative clip starts playing.\u00a0 At the end of the clip the screen will display a black and white still of the captured image of the viewer, with the tagline: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153TRANSPORT: life happens in public transport\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00a0 The stories featured in TRANSPORT are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153found\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stories that creators Isabella Stefanescu and Carlito Ghioni witnessed in public transportation and were filmed on streetcar #506 in Toronto and on a Grand River Transit bus in Kitchener.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8212;<br \/>\n<em>The interactive audio-visual installation \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>shh aah ohh<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d encourages participants to step into the crossroads of light and shadow.\u00a0 In this space Trickster &#8212; a character based on many cultures&#8217; tales of a spirit (e.g. Eshu) or animal (e.g. Crow) emerges, bending the physical and temporal laws governing participants&#8217; digitally-projected shadows.\u00a0 Play, performance and exploration guide participants as they discover whether they themselves can trick the Trickster!\u00a0 The installation, made up of screens, cameras, lights, computers, video projectors and recordings of sound poets, invites participants to see themselves in a new \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclight,&#8217; for their own movements trigger the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctricks&#8217; they experience.\u00a0 Created by Rea McNamara and Nicholas A. Longstaff, future applications may include use in galleries, public spaces (such as night clubs), and to facilitate play amongst children for learning purposes.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Collect. Connect. Create.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mytimeworld.com\"><strong>My Time<\/strong><\/a> is a set of designer collectibles that integrate with your computer via USB to express time in creative ways.\u00a0 Each object has programmable characteristics specific to their function including the ability to:<br \/>\nGlow ambient light<br \/>\nPlay your favourite music<br \/>\nRecord your own sounds<br \/>\nDisplay custom text messages or the time graphically<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each module expresses time by behaving when and how you want it to.\u00a0 Combine them together to schedule events that alert you with elegance and pizzazz, or that simply enhance the passage of time.\u00a0 Whether you collect one or all, each object comes with a special function for you to program, customize and enjoy.\u00a0 My Time was created by GUSTA, consisting of: Genevi\u00e0\u00a8ve Godin, Ulysses Castellanos, Simone Maurice, Tristen Brown, Andrew Mallis.\u00a0 Future applications may include: commercial applications as mass produced collectable designer toys for home and office. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Challenge yourself, challenge your friends\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And make a difference!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenwavechallenge.com\"><strong>greenwave<\/strong><\/a> is a Facebook application for people who care about the environment and are ready to make a change in their lifestyles.\u00a0 Users team up with their friends and commit to taking on environmentally friendly challenges together.\u00a0 Week long challenges range from taking home fewer plastic bags, to leaving excess packaging at the store, to turning off more lights and electricity hogging equipment, and hanging up the keys to the car.\u00a0 greenwave users have fun cheering their friends on as they learn how to change their daily habits and build a greener lifestyle.\u00a0 Created by Elliot Woolner, Zan Chandler and Sharon Saporta, future applications may include: online community activism, eco-friendly messaging and partnerships with environmental organizations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> &#8212;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Any relationship requires consistent and meaningful communication to blossom into a truly loving connection.\u00a0 Nowhere is this more true than in the engagement between a grandparent and a grandchild, especially when distance divides them.\u00a0 <strong>Gaku<\/strong> is a one-to-one communication tool that provides a meaningful space to share photos, video, and audio with loved ones across distances, specifically between grandparents and their grandchildren.\u00a0 Gaku allows for the direct sharing of images, along with an embedded audio message that provides the story behind the picture.\u00a0 Sharing moments big and small, old and new, preserving generations of wisdom and imagination, <strong>Gaku<\/strong> creates an essential inter-generational archive that will be cherished.\u00a0 Created by: Patrick Dinnen, Deiren Masterson, Jefferson Wright, Angella Mackey.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images from TRANSPORT Each year the Canadian Film Centre&#8217;s Media Lab launches a new crop of new media prototypes created by lab residents. 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