Link to the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme's
Mediatisedview project overview
NEWS TELESCOPE
A fixed public device which allows people to view news from around the world in the form of RSS feed content displayed
on screen. The news is chosen and acquired by physically interacting with this device; moving the telescope part of it, so as to train sights - set direction and distance - in order to focus on and pick up news from a particular geographical location.
Keywords
Signpost/Pointer (direction/distance/location)
Telescope (Focus/point of view)
Rifle sights (arc/trajectory/target/distance)
concept 1
A screen based 3d plane (elevated fixed viewpoint) with horizon line augmented with
floating arrows indicating RSS feeds available.
RSS flags open into
a.Headlines
b.Descriptions
c.Links to rich media
concept 2
Lecturn
Similar to angled glass plate public address auto cue systems.
Essentially a rotating lectern with a floor mounted, upward facing digital projection
hitting a clear plate tilted at a 45ยบ angle to the viewer. This allows a panoramic
field of vision to be augmented with digital content 'in-view'. A separate navigation
device allows the reader to select elements laid over real world locations through
the lectern and obtain RSS content relating to the building or space that is tagged
with content in the augmented view.
concept 3
Totem signpost
Photos of the prototype below;
photos of the News Telescope
And a video of the rotating potentiometer connected to a sample and working
(Youtube video)
Keywords- Orientation, Channels, Distance, Direction.
A lino disc on the ground indicates global places and distances viewable with laser
cut text and arrow signage graphics.
A totem pole sits in the centre of this with stacked collars, each holding a protruding
element/device that allows readers to set the incoming content by
physically moving or reading the elements. Largely this involves rotational sensing within
base of the unit. The whole signpost rotates within the base,
but also sliding/rotating/clicking/listening elements are considerations.
Interference is simulated between feeds being selected giving the feeling of 'tuning in'
to the feeds. This is perhaps extended to integrate a sound scape around which the
reader moves, incorporating a podcast feed, contextualized by title search, that plays
relating to news items concerning the chosen location.
This Totem is extensible in that it allows for further devices developed to be 'stacked'
on the pole and exchanged with other elements.
These could include;
A trace sandbox
An element placed at the base of the signpost in which items that have previously been
viewed are displayed, allowing an audience led content aggregation to be viewed by
subsequent readers.
Twitter feed (or any live content text feed)
A simple digital readout scrolling or displaying twitter feeds (short messages fed from
the Twitter social network) that relate to the readers chosen location.
This adds a layer of audience generated content relating to news items/locations
chosen by readers of the news telescope.
Twitterfeeds have the inherent property of being contextually sourced (relating to
location/time etc.) using XML keywords contained in their text through the Twitter open API.
Visualisation of the view thrown from the totem signpost occurs on a underside projected
angled viewing screen, where the RSS content is also viewed.
Distance is projected to a sliding scope mounted at eye level, also receiving content,
in the form of a list of distances available from the single underside projection.
The signage showing the location being visited by the reader sits atop the pole,
also underside projected, all acheived by focusing the projections seperate elements
using fresnel lenses placed at appropriate distances between the projector and the surface
receiving the media.
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