draft article on scene.org for stimulus
These notes are an outline of a possible article for Stimulus . After a recent showing at the Phoenix Black Box I was invited to write something down. This is to test response to this draft and invite some other contributions. We have been looking at scene.org as part of Animex,a digital fringe for Animated Exeter. We have a collection of downloads and email addresses, also two interviews on tape. These notes could also be an explanation of how the interviews could be used. There will be an edit and a DVD later.The aim is to make some connections with people who might get a wider audience for this kind of work. It is all public domain. As bandwidth is less of a problem, more could be possible. (Coding within 64k is a minority interest in my honest opinion).
Scene.org is an archive and meeting point for the 'demo scene'. This is digital animation often designed for small file sizes to make downloading easier. The 'demo' name indicates this is not intended as finished work. However the standards change and there is now an awards ceremony so some of it is presumably intended for a wider audience. During Animated Exeter we have shown some examples on laptops at the Phoenix and at Life Bytes.
We now have a method to move Quicktime onto tape so this works on a projector at the Phoenix. So there are now a few people who know roughly what scene.org is. So far the audience is limited to those who can download a zip and then place the dll files in the right place. Direct code to a graphics card is effective but festival organisers tend to be used to film.
Kris Sum has provided a 4 CD collection of downlaods and also a short interview explaing more about scene.org. Text version
Also two PDFs- scene-faq and aboutscene
(You will notice a PDF theme in background, I think flat static pages have a place)
Problem Number 1
There is a need to find some criteria that establish scene.org content as valid.
Fortunately in Exeter we have had two shows curated by Greg Kurcewicz, last year on Lillian Swartz, a beautiful virus inside the machine this year
A New Canvas
This is all about computer animation from the 60s and 70s. So long ago that this is now curated by academics. So why? This is mostly abstract with not much narrative. Most of the work from scene.org is not as good as any of this, even with improved computing but there must be a way of comparing and identifying new work for a wider audience.
So far as I know the films in 'A New Canvas' are not often shown. Greg Kurcewicz can now get permission to show them but on future occasions it would be interesting to include something from scene.org or show that as part of the same festival or event. The people who follow scene.org may not know about the films in 'A New Canvas'.
There are some stills on the web but I don't know how official this is.
Problem Number 2 (How much of this is intended to be available? Charles Csuri did not give permission for the Hummingbird film to be shown but there is a Quicktime version on the web.)
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