Colon Dash Forward Slash (computer installation, 2006)

A fast and silent montage of punctuation emoticons which pause and speak when a gallery visitor steps on a welcome mat. This interactive video installation pairs emoticons with human statements written and collected by Foley and emitted by computer generated voices. The installation was facilitated with the help of programmer John Maloney, and was designed in Scratch, a new programming language developed within the Lifelong Kindergarten Group of MIT's Media Laboratory. The installation appeared at SPACE Gallery in downtown Pittsburgh, PA in the winter of 2006.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• emoticon
• interactive
• media
• Scratch
• programming
• language
• installation
• art

[amonroy]

You can download Scratch for free (the software used to create this installation) from the scratch website

[noslrac211]

:-C

[buffalonate]

I enjoyed this a lot.

[artoffer]

Unfortunately, YouTube messaging service doesn't work at all. Can you please send me an e-mail to video[at]artoffer[dot]com? It's about presenting your art video on artoffer.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards, Thomas

[ashleyshadows]

There's something eerie about computer-generated voices..

[spatiotemporal]

Apparently the smiley was invented by Scott Fahlman at Carnegie Mellon University, here in Pittsburgh: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sef­Smiley.htm

[merustproof289]

i love it

i'm mad at myself because i didnt make it to the show for the opening

- reese