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Overview

The Hypermedia Studio creates original artistic works and systems combing interactive, performative, hypermedia content for both location-based applications (media/performance/installation events) and distribution-based applications (television, internet and dedicated networks).

The Studio's technological interests include:

  • Combining ubiquitous computing, sensing frameworks with comprehensive media control,
  • Connecting media-rich spaces and experiences to the real world using modern communication systems,
  • Using databases to give media-rich environments memory,
  • Developing authoring tools and middleware to interconnect these systems and create evocative experiences that use eclectic combinations to achieve artistic goals.

Three overarching themes tie together the Studio’s body of work:

Process

Emerging technologies allow artists and engineers to create not just objects, devices, and events, but autonomous systems and processes that illustrate or embody complex relationships of aesthetic and thematic interest

Presence

These processes are not static; the same technologies allow individual and group presence, identity, and action to impact art, entertainment, and communication experiences.

Context

Networks, sensors, and telematic devices encourage experiences that occur not in isolation or with a particular snapshot of history, but can be situated in the present, real-time activity of regions and populations.

Our activities incorporate and integrate computer sensing, multimedia databases, hypervideo streaming, advanced imaging capabilities and show control technologies in order to be responsive to real-time creation and viewing variables. Interactivity, in this context, is defined as a set of complex real-time relationships between the script, the creative team (performers, director, and others), the production environment, a multimedia database, and the spectators (local and/or remote). Final content and its audiovisual, performance, and narrative characteristics are the result of all of these intersecting variables as sensed, processed and managed by a complex digital infrastructure.

UCLA HyperMedia Studio
102 East Melnitz Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095
310.794.5358 - info@hypermedia.ucla.edu
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