clickscape98

I would like to inform you about the Web-Project "CLICKSCAPE98". Check the
URL: http://wwww.servus.at/clickscape98 to control live sound, light and
text. CLICKSCAPE98 is active from 28.august to 13. septemer daily from 9.00 -
23.59 p.m. (CET) The control elements are Java Applets, the Webcams work as
server-push - to use CLICKSCAPE98 you need Netscape 3.0 or higher...





About "ClickScape98":
The Stadtwerkstatt transforms the Danube area by the Nibelungen Bridge into
a Clickable Public Space. A new node is created here at the crossroads of
the city, where the routes leading from north to south and from east to
west intersect. Interventions are made in this public space via the world
wide data networks. A space for encounters between the real world and the
virtual world opens up here. Linz becomes the meeting place between
cyberspace and reality.

Electronic visitors coming to Linz via the Internet have an opportunity to
transmit their visual, audible and text messages online as an intervention
in the urban landscape of Linz. Every mouse click has an effect in real
space. You will find the elements you need for operation at
http://www.servus.at/clickscape98

Guests in the Danube area experience live how the lights of the EA Generali
building go on and off, how acoustic greetings cross the Nibelungen Bridge
and messages from cyberspace scroll across the front of the Stadtwerkstatt
in illuminated letters.

- you can use: images, sounds, texts:

Image
Pixel graphics on the facade of the EA Generali office building

Every window at the front of the EA Generali office building is equipped
with a light source the can be switched on and off. A Webcam is focused on
the building. It transmits a live image to the Internet. When a visitor
clicks on one of the windows in the building with the mouse, this triggers
a switch that turns the light either on or off. In this way, the front of
the building can be decorated like pixel graphics. The electronic visitor
to Linz creates his or her own picture, leaving a personal code behind on
the building. Patterns, ornaments, signs appear. Even animations are
possible. Several people at atime can playfully participate in developing
each ongoing image composition by separately clicking on the windows.
However a Web interface matrix also makes it possible to design an image
for the facade and send it to the building as a whole.


Sound
A sound runs across the bridge

A pressure chamber loudspeaker is mounted on each lamp post on the east
side of the Nibelungen Bridge. Each of these loudspeakers can be
individually controlled via the Internet. A selection of sounds are
available at the Web site, which may be assigned to the loudspeakers in any
way that the electronic visitor desires. This enables electronic visitors
in Linz to send acoustic messages to passers-by on the bridge. There is
also a sequencer on the Web page. Net users can use it to write their own
compositions with the available sounds and hear them during a virtual walk
across the bridge before sending them off for a performance. The reactions
of the passers by may be observed by means of several Webcams on the same
side of the bridge.

Text
"Wild Ivy" - the electronic moving illuminated sign on the Stadtwerkstatt -
growing profusely.

Using an input interface in the Web browser, electronic visitors to Linz
can post a text to the moving sign. A message from the Internet to the
people of Linz on site. Texts entered by electronic visitors are lined up
in the input field of the Web site, where all Net users can see them, and
wander one after another across the sign. It is similar to a chat. Another
Webcam is focused on the Stadtwerkstatt building, tracking both the "Wild
Ivy" and the people in the square in front of the building. The invisible
person from cyberspace speaks up in the urban landscape of Linz.

http://www.servus.at/clickscape98

ClickScape98 - a project of STADTWERKSTATT in the course of the festival
"Europaen Cultural Month Linz September 98" Sponsored and supported by:
Stadt Linz, PHILIPS, EA-Generali, GEG, Nacamar, Immeg

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