Life to the Second Power—Animating the Archive, was awarded Cdn$49,000 by the Daniel Langlois Foundation, for the project's pilot phase running June 2006 to June 2007. This online meta-narrative will integrate real and virtual architecture, avatars, artifacts, somatic characters and situational components such as site tagging, GPS, and GIS modeling into a mixed reality and pervasive gaming environment. The project will re-animate the existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University.
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SHL believes that some crucial questions — about what it is to be human, about experience in a connected world, about the boundaries of culture and nature — transcend old divisions between the arts, sciences and humanities; between the academy, industry and the cultural sphere. We engage in experimental projects with a "laboratory" ethos — collaborative, co-creative, team-based — involving a triangulation of arts practice, commentary/critique, and outreach, merging research, pedagogy, publication and practice. Beyond commentary and discussion, we build: new media, interactive archives, predictive models of social change, collaborative research workshops, art exhibitions. The SHL agenda encompasses • animating archives - regenerating, bringing to life,
and fostering new modes of interaction with the storehouses of human, cultural, artistic, scientific achievement - our focus is on the question of the relationship of the human past to efforts at conservation and preservation Previous Posts
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