WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR
Date: Friday 9.18
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Rm. 6W, Barney building
Workshop Requirements: Laptop loaded with Google Earth, Google Sketchup, and Smultron (or similar text editing program). See below for more details.
Probability is a performance for one vocalist and Google Earth about the likelihood you will run into someone you know on the street in New York. After the show, the performers will instruct the audience on how to construct simple 3D models and text in Google Sketch-Up, embed them in Google Earth and create custom fly-through paths to be exported as video.
Using a combination of Google Earth Flythroughs, custom made 3D models and animations, the vocalist seeks to intuit, calculate and develop theoretical models for what seems to be nigh impossible: running into someone you know on the streets of New York City. The performance is about 20 minutes long and will culminate in a Google Earth hacking session where members of the audience will learn how to create simple models in Google Sketchup, drop them into Google Earth Pro and program the camera to fly around them.
Given the set of all the possible locations of all the people you know and the set of all the places you could possibly be at any given time, we purport that the union of all of these pieces of information (the people you know, the places they might be, the places you might be and each’s independent vector in time) is calculable. This intersection – namely “running into someone you know on the street” – maintains several curious characteristics which Probability will seek to explain intuitively, programmatically and logically. It fails, charmingly, on all accounts.
Note: Participants should come with Google Earth, Google Sketchup, and Smultron (or similar text editing program) installed on their computer. If they’d like to make videos from their flythroughs, they should have either Snapz Pro or Google Earth Pro (preferred) installed.
What We Know So Far is a Brooklyn based performance company which produces work staged like lectures. We create complex and fast paced situations which are engaging and affable. WWKSF was founded by Mike Rugnetta and Patrick Davison.
Mike Rugnetta is a composer and programmer. He has performed or had work show at HERE Art Center, The Kitchen, Judson Memorial Church, Mass MoCA, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Walker Art Center, St. Mark’s Church, 3rd Ward and others. He is also a principal artist with Avant Media and his favorite word is elucubrate.
Patrick Davison is a digital artist living in Brooklyn. He is co-director of WWKSF, and has performed work in New York City at the Kitchen, NYU, Columbia University, The Gene Frankel Theater, and 3rd Ward in Brooklyn. He works closely with Eyebeam Senior-Fellow Michael Mandiberg, and film-maker Julie Talen.
