Transmesh

Design Workshop – July 29 2011

transmesh — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 09:37:13 +0000

This is a renga composed in a design workshop conducted by interMedia lab design researcher, Idunn Sem at RMIT University July 29 2011. The workshop title was Bring your tools! Artifacts of expression and expressive artifacts in collaborative design research.

Marsha Berry used renga and Twitter as her tool to create an artifact of expression. The participants composed the renga above. Renga is a literary art form written by two or more collaborators that was popular in Japan during the medieval and Edo periods. Bashõ was a keen proponent and innovator of the form. As well as being poetry, renga is an improvisation where two or more poets collaborate to produce a performance through linked verse.

Reichhold (1995) describes the writing of renga thus,

While engaged in contributing to a renga the writers are aware that a careless, uneducated reader could find the completed poem merely a crazy-quilt assemblage of alternating two and three line stanzas. However, they also know that a knowledgeable, sensitive reader will legitimately anticipate a creative, meaningful and enjoyable assemblage of organized stanzas. Writers of renga design their lines so that ANY ADJACENT SET of two and three lines will have a subtle but recognizable relationship.

Poetry4u Update

transmesh — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:42:38 +0000

The poetry map of Swanston St has 21 sites and three poems at each site. The Poetry4u application promotes future submissions into the competition.

Zeitgeist

transmesh — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:19:44 +0000

There is an application about the lane-ways of Melbourne called MyStory that has resonances with the poetry4u application. Locative media has burgeoned thanks to smart phones. It is wonderful to see the range and scope of creative projects using new mobile media.

Interesting Project in Sydney

transmesh — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 06:23:13 +0000

We found this quote on The Power of Locative Media blog:

“In the very near future, billions of people will be roaming the planet with GPS devices. Clouds of network connectivity are forming over our major cities and will inevitably coalesce. The geoaware web isn’t a product we buy; it’s an environment we colonize.” – Udell, 2005

The blog describes a really interesting project in Sydney called “Sydney Sidetracks: History where it happened” that has resonances with the poetry4u project.

New steps

transmesh — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 05:45:26 +0000

Work has commenced on the iPhone application. We are also editing an anthology of the best entries from 2009 and 2010 which will be published by Lulu in the near future.

Poetry4u at Fed Square

transmesh — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:56:34 +0000

Some of the Poetry4U poems wrapping around the shard at Fed Square.

Poetry4u at Federation Square

transmesh — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:17:42 +0000

It is so lovely to see our winning entries up on the East Shard tickers at Federation Square.

Twitter poetry competion winning entries scroll along the East Shard at Federation Square

New media gives mother nature a voice

transmesh — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:30:39 +0000

Haque Design + Research working with wind

Mother nature can now tell us things she couldn’t in the past.

Burble, created by Haque Design + Research, shows one way it’s done.

A 15 story tall sculpture consisting of thousands of weather balloons each containing LEDs and mircocontrollers, Burble is controlled by a crowd of people on the ground and then shaped by the wind up above.

New technologies give us the ability to see and experience things we couldn’t previously before. Be it visualizing wind, smell or speed, new technologies give us the tools needed to work with and communicate what the environment is doing directly around us.

by omega

Publicity for Poetry4u

transmesh — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:25:47 +0000

We are very excited that the ABC has released
stories about our project.

We are in World News and First Tuesday Book Club

The panel of judges will meet next Tuesday at 8am
over a delicious breakfast to select the winning
entries for the ticker tape display in Federation
Square and for the iPhone app.

“Poetry 4 U” Prototype

transmesh — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:51:48 +0000

The Poetry 4 U prototype is in the final stages
of development. This iphone app will mesh
real time imaging with location based media to
create an augmented reality experience that showcases
poetry written by a diverse range of participants.

The Poetry 4 U iphone app enables users to
engage with Melbourne’s city streets in dynamic ways
that exploit the creative potential of networked media.
Poetry is no longer confined to the pages in a book,
rather it floats across the screen as iphone users
interact with user generated content delivered to
their phone using GPS and mobile technology.