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20.12.02 Greylines 00-06 and Hyperchoreography, new Scottish software art.
The always active New Media Scotland presented two new software art projects. Greylines 00-06 is developed by Slateford (Simon Yuill and Tryggve Askildsen) and it's a series of six interactive animations in Shockwave (freely downloadable) composed exclusively with grey shades, to underline the tribute to Hans Richter ans Oskar Fischinger, who made experimental animations in the twentieth century, and to give some sort of artificial age to the so-called 'old-time code'. The smooth color shifts and hue-on-hue shadings, besides the retro feeling, bring with them memories and techniques of a technical past which expressed itself in similar ways both with the first attempts at mechanical work some decades ago, and with the first personal computers, with their obvious computational limits. Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, on the other hand, formulate with 'Hyperchoreography' a performatory space dedicated to dance which finds its raison d'etre in a networked interactive medium. In fact, however the editing of a work of video-dance is made, only one of thousands of combinatorial possibilities comes true, and parts are discarded which are as interesting as those selected. Afterwards, the loops are connectable by the user in new juxtapositions which make the process public and openly shareable.