first rehearsal - theory part

fingers are taped with contact mics; text written in size 200; when finished, let text get smaller (to about 13pt); text finished in abc1:














switch to other/readable font; we use the print option, look around how many people are in the audience and print out the theory; while printing, we'll attach the contact mike to the printer















close preview, fontcreator shows up (fullscreen)














underneath it, pd is running all the time; so we can just switch from one prog to the next; the video we are running is one from our first patch tests, looks like a live stream from the schleppi

abc, v.01

created with fontcreator

some letters (G, H) are still missing,
also i'll have to refine the spacing.

workflow in fontcreator (after assigning the img) was:
- assign font family
- save font in fontfolder
- install font

4Rt cR4x0Rz

use:

"Hacking Open Together: New Media Art, Activism and Computer Counter Cultures" jonCates ++ jake elliott (2007)
http://www.4rtcr4x0rz.com/doku/doku.php

as raw data? as text? as intro? as lyrics for Skype lead singing VoIP ?

Zielinski fotos on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninawenhart/sets/72157603694474451/

Siegfried Zielinski's re:place Manifesto

Berlin, November 2007
retyped from foto

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Manifesto re:place Berlin, Nov 2007

Investigations of Deep Time Relations A, S & T after the Media

- To the credit of the brave young Scottish geologist James Hutton and his "Theory of Earth" (1795): We do not accept a final layer of granite through which we cannot penetrate further in order to discover new constellations regarding A, S & T - "no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end" [Hutton].

- The question as of what came first, or which was first, is no longer a consideration. To answer it is a waste of effort and only serves vanity, which is a special form of power.

- We neither accept master media nor master disciplines to explore the tensional deep time relations of A, S & T.

Case studies of media processes & phenomena should at least be:
- ideologically open (VARIANTOLOGICAL, without an own DISCIPLINE)
- seismographically deep
- poetically dense (anyway, the least)
- experimental (as opposed to TEST)
- luxurious (lavish: this gives back to the present what history has stolen from it)
- going eastwards and southwards (at least for the next century the heterographic creatures and regions should give priority to the autotrophic ones).

Formulated with regard to image technologies they should be:
- projective (draft-oriented: going through history pointing in a forwardly direction);
- speculative (speculum: magical, reflecting, refracting light);
- imaginary (imaginative, fantastic);
- curious (investigative);
- brazen (without shame);
- full of illusions (risky, hazardous, illudre = to take a risk).

font #2

- use fontcreator
- open an installed font
- select a letter
- open tools/import image
- play around with the settings
- say ok at some point
- do the same with a couple of letters
- make the preview window as big as possible
- output monitor to projector
- type


actually, i will try to prepare images in advance next time, make them b/w, work on contrast, make them smaller etc.

but that could be one way to go for the performance

theory part

reenacting theory by retyping it
therefor a font is developed
the font consists of fotos/videos
each foto/video is assigned to a certain letter on the keyboard, depending on the name of the foto/videofile

at quitch, we are reenacting Siegfried Zielinskis Manifesto, that he presented at re:place in November 2007 in Berlin

font #1

img2ttf, from Tsutsumi Hiroyuki
(http://www.bebits.com/app/4134#download)

img2ttf ver.0.03  2005.5.18


Function
 create ttf(TrueTypeFont) from image-files


How to use
 1. edit info-file.  (Refer to following)
 2. open Terminal
 3. type "img2ttf [-b] [-r] [-a0|-a1|-a2|-a3] [-wh|-wf] info-file img-dir"


About command-options
 -b without embedded-bitmap , output BeBitmapFont
 -r reverse image(white/black)
 -a0 if max_size<=16 , outline is faithfully generated to input.
 -a1 if max_size<=16 , outline is faithfully generated to input.(corner is round)
 -a2 outline is generated with old type algorithm
 -a3 outline is generated with new type algorithm(default)
 -wh all character is half-width
 -wf all character is full-width


About info-file
 refer to sample-file "test.inf"

 line 1  filename(output ttf-file-name ,  not font-name)
 line 2  vendor-name(4byte-ascii)
 line3-10 strings for name-fields of ttf-file
  Copyright notice,
  Font Family name,
  Font Subfamily name,
  Unique font identifier,
  Full font name,
  Version string,
  Postscript name for the font,
  Trademark,


About img-dir and images
 example
  img-dir/
  img-dir/16/    .....size=16dot
  img-dir/16/0000.img  .....error-character image
  img-dir/16/0020.img  .....' '(space) image
  img-dir/16/0030.img  .....'0'
  img-dir/16/0031.img  .....'1'
  img-dir/32/    .....size=16dot
  img-dir/32/0030.img  .....'0'
  img-dir/128/    .....size=128dot
  img-dir/128/0031.img  .....'1'
  img-dir/128/0032.img  .....'2'

 point-size ... 8<=n<=256
 image-file-name ... unicode + ".img"
 image-type ... targa,jpeg,,,etc. (supported translator)
 unicode0000-007f,ff61-ffdf ... half-width

 created outline from largest image
 embedded bitmap smaller than 33dot

 input this example
 output ttf is..
  outline ... create from
    16/0000.img
    16/0020.img
    32/0030.img
    128/0031.img
    128/0032.img
  bitmap ... create from
    16/0000.img
    16/0020.img
    16/0030.img
    16/0031.img
    32/0030.img


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http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~hirotsu/