Project Idea Update

After I met with Gianni and had time to look over some of the references and advice he had given me, I decided that creating a web based authoring tool and social network for the collaboration of art was going to be a tall order.

I had the idea of still using a social network based website that would allow users to interact and collaborate but I needed to refine the process of production and the reasoning behind it.

The idea is to create a social network based website that uses twitter feeds or similar to create autonomous art. Basically it would work in the sense that users would be able to log into my website using their existing twitter details and from within the website be able to 'tweet' and write updates, but instead of posting them in the normal sense, art would be created from the combination of words or letters that the user types and submits. The art would be created using software called 'Quartz Composer' by Apple. This software allows the creation of animations, graphics etc that can respond to real time data such as audio feeds, xml feeds etc. It is used in the creation of iTunes Visualisers and screensavers.

This process of production would be autonomous in the sense that peoples written tweets would determine the outcome of the art being displayed, but could potentially effect the process in which users tweet and may even write tweets to gain a specific outcome.