fishenden.com
This site is conducting research into how
new creative
technologies can provide
immersive new ways of enhancing our experience and communication of
time and place.
I've
updated an earlier Silverlight 1.0 application,
TimeRadio so that it's full screen zoomable (you'll see a
fairly obvious new button that provides this functionality).
It's far better in full screen mode. The next stage in this
ongoing work will be to develop the sounds relevant to a
TimeRadio for a specific place over time - in this case, the
City of Leicester.
I'm experimenting with
Silverlight's deep
zoom functionality. You can see
here a very rough and ready playbox using three photos of the
same road in Chiswick taken at different times over the years. As
you zoom in (if you zoom into the right part of the photo!) you will
be taken back into another photo from an earlier time and then again
from another from an earlier time. You can de-zoom to come back to
the present day image. I'm exploring how technology like this can
provide new ways of letting us navigate the palimpsests of the past.
Work is underway on developing new ways of "visiting" the past. Check out the current state of play of the "Morphing Maps of West London" - from c 1805 to 2008.
Visit the lab to see more work in progress.
One recent composition is centred on the old Guildhall School of Music. Click here to view (requires Silverlight and audio). Or click here to see how it can be accessed from Microsoft Live Maps (select 'Birds Eye View' for an even better experience), or here on Google Maps.
Note: most of the work on this site requires the use of the Silverlight browser plug-in- you should be prompted to install Silverlight if your Windows PC, Mac or Linux computer doesn't already have it. Some works require Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) support. It is planned in future to include videos to provide insights into this work without the need for installing these components.
This site is dedicated to digital innovation at the frontiers of science and the arts.
You will need Microsoft Silverlight to experience this site. If you don't yet have it, you'll be prompted to install it when required.
Some applications require Windows Presentation Foundation.
NOTE: (I think) I've fixed the core Firefox issues, but sound (like not playing it!) still seems to be an issue ...
Research
Visit the lab to see more work in progress.
Please help with this research by using the feedback surveys where you come across them.