Creative Capital Foundation grant proposal ---------------------------------------Bartlett/Daniel

Work Sample Description
 
Sharon Daniel

 

Narrative Contingencies

http://metaphor.ucsc.edu/~sdaniel/NCintro.html

or

http://sharon.banff.org/creative/NCintro.html

When language and representation are structured from a single, dominant point-of-view, the position of the subject remains fixed. If the point-of-view of the symbolic can be distributed and multiplied - then experience itself might be altered.

The Narrative Contingencies web site allows participants to construct their own narratives - at the intersection of chance and interpretation. Participants are encouraged to submit images and texts, which will, over time, replace those of the initial Narrative Contingencies database. Through the combined agency of user interaction and chance operations the database will continuously evolve -- eventually experiencing a total regeneration, displacement or "sea change." A global state - the database - will emerge from the local, individual acts of interpretation in the context of a constantly evolving system. Any current state of the system will express the subjective perspective of each and all of its participants.

 

Brain Opera

http://metaphor.ucsc.edu/~sdaniel/creative/brain.html

or

http://sharon.banff.org/creative/brain.html

In July 1996 the Brain Opera, a collaborative, interactive sound and image event based on Marvin Minsky’s seminal book, The Society of Mind, opened at Lincoln Center and on the World Wide Web as part of the 1996 Internet World Expo. This project continues to tour in the U.S., Europe and Asia. As it continues to tour the Brain Opera will help to establish a new paradigm for the creation and experience of a work of art. Its narrative proceeds from the point-of-view of each and all of its audience-participants. The Brain Opera allows its audience to experience and contribute to the evolution of a "hyper-work" that is dynamic and perpetually unfinished. This interactive exhibition challenges prevailing models of aesthetic intentionality, and creative authorship.

 

Secondary documentation of Brain Opera — pt II on video — cued to beginning

Length of original work — 45:07

Length of sample — first 10 minutes of original work
 
Mark Bartlett
 

"proust/douglas/edison:’…something dark indeed…,’" Searchlight: consciousness at the end of the millennium, edited by Lawrence Rinder, Thames & Hudson, 1999.