[NetBehaviour] SHIRLEY BASSEY GETS MIXED UP

[dave miller]

Hi marc

Thanks for taking a look, it's great to get feedback. I agree - the
project is a sort of coming together of 2 things - a short piece on
Bassey and - a tool that generates line drawings from web searches. I
think there's a lot more I can do with this tool, and what excites me
is that managed to work out how to make a PDF booklet from all the
files generated - once you make the last page then you can do this
(hopefully you saw it). This opens up lots of possibilities for me, in
terms of building short stories and packaging them. I've always had a
problem that once you go through all the scenes, you've got nothing
concrete to take away with you, and this pretty much solves that.

I think this is really a start (of something) - it's sort of a
template tool for building networked stories. Hmm... you've got me
thinking

all the best, dave

On 28/08/06, marc <marc.garrett at furtherfield.org> wrote:
> Hi dave,
>
> I enjoyed exploring your work submitted to Netbehaviour - and wondered
> if for instance, you decided not to use someone such as Shirley Bassey -
> what other situations or themes/people, would you use as a collaboration
> for this piece? It seems as though this piece is very much a type of
> on-line tool and could be expanded as so...
>
> marc
>
> > 'Shirley Bassey Mixed Up' is a collaborative biography: an illustrated
> > biography of the legendary diva, where the reader helps to 'mix' the
> > illustrations online, using Internet searches.
> >
> > http://dev2.manme.org.uk/~davem/bassey_story/
> >
> > The biography was inspired by an incident on a TV awards show last
> > year, where Bassey was publically humiliated. I felt sad to see this
> > happen, and wanted to know more about what led up to this.
> >
> > All illustrations are built on-the-fly from live Yahoo searches. By
> > specifying different searches and playing with the customisation
> > options, the reader creates the illustrations themselves.
> >
> > This is a traditional (linear) 14-page story built on top of a
> > generative composition tool, that uses Internet search data as its
> > input.
> >
> > The work can be described as a networked narrative, as a story partly
> > created by networked data. Adding unexpected and uncontrolled elements
> > to the story influences and changes the presentation, how it's
> > experienced and what we take away from it. This shapes the story,
> > changing fact into fiction, sometimes disrupting the story.
> >
> > As the networked elements are dynamic and largely unpredictable, every
> > version of the biography is unique. Your version of the story is
> > packaged into booklet form, for you to print and keep.
> >
> >
> > About Dave Miller:
> > Dave Miller experiments with illustrated stories and networked media.
> > More of his work can be seen here:
> > http://dev1.manme.org.uk/~davem/davemiller_art_blog
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