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  • Delphi touchscreen art installation

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    Description/Abstract:
    Delphi - a touchscreen video game art installation for galleries and museums. Viewers can explore a contemporary interpretation of the ancient Greek site of Delphi, home of a mythical oracle. The Delphi gallery installation, designed for museums and cultural centers, gives each visitor about ten minutes to explore Delphi and visit the oracle to get a personalized message. The installation is easy to use, and accessible for general audiences of all ages and degrees of experience. Two cubes (or a cube and a chair) are placed on a 7cm high, 2m square plinth stage; the large cube is a ventilated cabinet and tabletop for a touchscreen, the other cube is a seat. As players step up onto the plinth to interact with the touchscreen to explore the virtual world, they enter the installation observed by the other gallery visitors who watch the interaction on large video screens around them, displaying the virtual environment of Delphi onto the gallery walls, with soft, ambient sound of the Greek countryside and occasional interactive events. Delphi requires controlled lighting and electricity, between 50-500 sq meters, large video displays, audio, plinth, and two cubes (or cube and chair) as above. An area of about 500 square meters is optimal, although smaller is possible. A CAVE version of Delphi is currently being researched. Visitors can explore the environment in and around the hills and monuments of Delphi. By artificial intelligence, Delphi responds by AI to each visitors style of play, actions, responses, and behavior, choosing a classic Delphic maxim (150 Delphic maxims drawn from historical and literary sources) for each player in turn. Unzip Delphi_Oracle_install.zip into a Windows folder to create a folder called Delphi_Oracle and its contents. Change directories to browse into the Delphi_Oracle folder, and double-click on Delphi_Oracle.exe to play Delphi. If Microsoft Smartscreen asks to prevent an unrecognized app, click More info, and click Run anyway. With mouse or touchscreen you can move and interact onscreen; Slow or stop, left mouse button or touch the center of the screen Move forward, mouse button or touch center top of screen (higher = faster) Move backward, mouse button or touch center bottom of screen (lower = faster) Turn right, mouse or touch right side of screen Turn left, mouse or touch left side of screen Look up and down, left and right mouse buttons together (or two fingers) A touchscreen makes it feel very immersive, and a mouse also works just fine too. Currently working to run Delphi in the CAVE software for CAVE systems. Delphi is first and foremost a work of contemporary art and an interpretive reconstruction of a cultural treasure for everyone. Looking for a contemporary art gallery where I can premiere it. -benb copyright 2022 Benjamin Britton June 14, 2022 all rights reserved
    Creator/Author:
    Britton, Benjamin
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    06/16/2022
    Date Modified:
    06/16/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-06-16
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Britton_ImmersiveExperience

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    Description/Abstract:
    Benjamin Britton: A review of some past and current creative research, 2022. -benb
    Creator/Author:
    Britton, Benjamin
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    05/11/2022
    Date Modified:
    05/13/2022
    Date Created:
    2022-05-10
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • D/A Interlude

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    Description/Abstract:
    Digital/Analog Interlude Made with Sandin Image Processor original audio and video composition by Subterranean Video 1983 at BF/VF in Boston.
    Creator/Author:
    Mario Erik Paoli; Subterranean Video, and Britton, Benjamin
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    01/02/2022
    Date Modified:
    01/03/2022
    Date Created:
    1983
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Sisyphus

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    Description/Abstract:
    A small robot rests on the floor as the camera zooms close, a finger reaches out to turn the switch and the robot comes to life. Sisyphus was produced by Subterranean Video, a video collective based at the Boston Film/Video Foundation, in 1983. Sisyphus was premiered at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art as part of a show called "Boston Now:1984"
    Creator/Author:
    Britton, Benjamin and Charles Jevremovic
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    01/01/2022
    Date Modified:
    01/01/2022
    Date Created:
    1983
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Root Three

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    Type:
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    Description/Abstract:
    Night time in Boston 1984 Subterranean Video
    Creator/Author:
    Geoff White; Mario-Erik Paoli; Britton, Benjamin, and Subterranean Video
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    10/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    10/29/2021
    Date Created:
    1984
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Erste Nacht

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    Description/Abstract:
    A visual interpretation of an ambient expression expressed in time; 17:52 original music and video by svid subterranean video visual timed countdown for new years in boston 1983 hynes auditorium by video projection
    Creator/Author:
    Britton, Benjamin; Geoff White; Charles Jevremovic; Mario-Erik Paoli, and Subterranean Video
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    10/22/2021
    Date Modified:
    10/22/2021
    Date Created:
    1983
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • The Fruit of Chardin

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    Description/Abstract:
    The Fruit of Chardin is a video symphony following a group of friends who meet in the evening to eat, party, explore the city, and make video and music together. Includes rare footage of Subterranean Video and an interview with video artist Nam June Paik, who discusses the meaning of Fluxus.
    Creator/Author:
    Britton, Benjamin
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    10/18/2021
    Date Modified:
    10/27/2021
    Date Created:
    1986
    License:
    All rights reserved

  • Did We Go? - The MOON Project

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    Description/Abstract:
    Did We Go? is an experimental video art documentary that examines whether humankind really reached the Moon in the Summer of 1969. Documentary filmmaker Aaron Ranen explores America to search for the truth behind claims of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Original footage of many significant historical sites and interviews with first-hand participants in the Apollo 11 Mission. No matter what you believed before, this documentary will astonish you and change how you think about the first Moon landing forever. To watch the entire video (sixty minutes), click on a link below.
    Creator/Author:
    Aron Ranen and Britton, Benjamin
    Submitter:
    Benjamin Britton
    Date Uploaded:
    10/18/2021
    Date Modified:
    10/21/2021
    Date Created:
    Did We Go
    License:
    All rights reserved