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LAB[au] Manuel Abendroth TOUT Paul Gonze
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year of creation: 2001 - 2002 keywords: _ hypersidedness _ 2D-3D-nD topologies _ 2D-3D navigation system _ multi-layer information displays _ intertextuality *** Blaxxun VRML PLUG-IN needed, please download at the index page of the TOUT web-site
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| ABOUT THE WEB_SITE |
TOUT D EDGE is a website displaying the works of the non profit artistic organization TOUT. Altough fulfilling the function of a portfolio, design was focused on the graphical user interface following the idea that this website would be rather a project integrated in the suite of works of TOUT than a simple transposition of a paper catalog onto the internet. Therefore analyzing the works of Tout, the 'recurrent' themes and the specificities of the digital medium, modalities of inscription and interaction, were the first steps in constituting a model able to transmit these themes and the research done around the project. Even if TOUT is making art works and artistic events, its members have a strong scientific background especially in mathematics and topology. Somewhere it was obvious than the screen is not implicating bi-dimensional settings, and that relating to user interaction and immersion, 3d space was more appropriate to represent and to interact with such a model. Topology is a branch of mathematics, which studies the properties of objects. A topological object is thus an object whose properties doesn't vary according to such parameters as measure, and which remains unchanged when the object is stretched or bent, but not torn. One topological object was especially interesting regarding considerations such as the screen and its bi and tri-dimensional setting and the works that was done by tout on loops, spiral…; the Möbius strip. Möbius strip possess one remarkable property: one-sidedness. With most objects, it is impossible to travel from one side to another without crossing an edge, but because of the half twist (180°), the Möbius strip has only one side and one edge. Users would interact with a Möbius strip permitting a fluid transition between 3d and 2d representations, hyperlinking in space and time the works of "Tout" in a multi-layered graphical system. This navigation system by its overlaying princpal thus creates an intertextual reading and understanding of the work of TOUT and this on a direct as on a conceptual level. Regarding the abstract
settings of this particular topology, the Möbius strip is best
described as a system than as an object and thus became the model for
the navigation system binding 2d to 3d information displays _ described
by the concept of hypersidedness according to its geometric specifity
of one-sidedness getting digital. |
| ABOUT THE PUBLICATION |
16 page leaflet about the TOUT D EDGE web project, conceived by TOUT + LAB[au] for the TOUT art exhibition catalogue at ISELP, Bd de Waterloo, 31 B-1000 Brussels _ exhibition: 07.03 / 20.04. 2002        
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| PROJECT CREDITS |
Credits
www-site : online : December 2001 Leaflet TOUT D EDGE: Conception: TOUT
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PROJECT TIMELINE
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FEEDBACK
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