ISTA 401 Three Artists

I found an artist on http://www.dataisnature.com. Lucid Phantom Messenge – Herwig Weiser. I did not entirely undertsand what the piece was but it had something to do with inputing electricity into chemicals and seeing how they react. The main point is the idea of observing an autonomous process that you do not have control over. This is what interests me about the piece and about computing possibilities. When I develop games or brainstorm about what I want to do, it often involves some awesome autonomous process that makes the game unpredictable and more interesting experience.

Here is another piece I found on http://createdigitalmotion.com. It is by Peter Kirn. It is a really cool and beautiful visualization of music. This idea of visualizing music is not something super new. It reminds me of the Fantasia movies by Disney. It's very interesting how different but similar they are. I don't understand much about how this is done technically or artistically but i'm interested to try and figure it out.

This is a game from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Game Lab. It is called "A Slower Speed of Light". It is a basic run around and collect 100 orbs to win the game but the more orbs you pick up the slower the speed of light gets. This changes the game a lot and lets you, in a way, experience some special relativity situations and helps people understand them more intuitively. I wish I could play it. Hopefully it will be available sometime in the future. I'm interested in it because of the representation of physics in a virtual environment. I love simulations of the real world. I love playing flight simulators or anything in that venue. Here is the link to the article about the game.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/mit-gamifies-relativity-121101.htm