jenniferkate
08-27-2003, 01:32 AM
is a bar in new york thats got cameras everywhere, which can yield some pretty interesting pictures. this boy i met over the weekend told me he made out with some local newscaster chick there and that sounds like a voyeur-liciously fun evening to me.
http://www.remotelounge.com/photos/images/console.jpg
Remote Lounge is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists.
Remote officially opened on October 9th, 2001 and is now open 7 days a week from 6PM to 4AM. Many nights feature special events targeting certain audiences or featuring specific artists, performers or promoters. This adaptability has already proven that the design and technical infrastructure behind Remote is versatile and flexible enough for the lounge to re-theme and re-invent itself nightly. To see a schedule of upcoming events, or to view an archive of past events, see the Calendar section.
Telepresence
Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consoles™. The Cocktail Consoles™ also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote.
Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property.
my friend yapping on her cellphone AS USUAL:
http://www.remotelounge.com/consolePhotos/images/08-26-2003/200308262106221511.jpg
http://www.remotelounge.com/consolePhotos/images/08-26-2003/200308261742521008.jpg
http://www.remotelounge.com/consolePhotos/images/08-26-2003/200308262127191412.jpg
http://www.remotelounge.com/photos/images/console.jpg
Remote Lounge is a revolutionary new concept in nightlife entertainment. Located in downtown Manhattan, it is a technology-themed cocktail lounge and new media art space unlike anything else in the world. The lounge is outfitted with over 60 video cameras - covering every square foot of the space from multiple angles - and this live video is displayed on over 100 output devices, such as CRTs, LCDs, large format plasma screens and video projectors. Into this mix of live feeds are an everchanging roster of digital and analog video artworks, animation, special effects, web-based art and interactive multimedia created by both emerging and established new media artists.
Remote officially opened on October 9th, 2001 and is now open 7 days a week from 6PM to 4AM. Many nights feature special events targeting certain audiences or featuring specific artists, performers or promoters. This adaptability has already proven that the design and technical infrastructure behind Remote is versatile and flexible enough for the lounge to re-theme and re-invent itself nightly. To see a schedule of upcoming events, or to view an archive of past events, see the Calendar section.
Telepresence
Controlled Entropy Ventures (CEV), the developers of Remote, describe the lounge as a "telepresence" environment. The appeal inherent in this seemingly contradictory concept has been noted by a number of techno-sociologists working in fields like video-conferencing and Virtual Reality. At Remote, all of the cameras within the lounge are controllable by the bar patrons themselves, who can view the output of the different cameras at custom-designed Cocktail Consoles™. The Cocktail Consoles™ also allow customers to then remotely pan and tilt any camera they are viewing using a joystick. Patrons therefore"spy" on other patrons and will be "spied" on in return. The cameras act as the "remote eyeballs," or the visual prosthetics, of the bar customers. This distortion of the usual way in which people interact, at the same time more (virtually) intimate and (physically) remote then typical bar encounters, is at the core of the fun to be had using the gadgets at Remote.
Rather than focus on the "Big Brother" association with the surveillance technology that has been co-opted and adapted to use in the lounge, CEV founders point out that their version of telepresence is used to very different ends then traditional surveillance implementations. First of all, access to the system is mutual, bilateral and consensual - nobody gets to violate anyone else's privacy in a manner that they would not be subject to themselves. Secondly, the environment is designed to encourage exploration, experimentation and human interaction rather than to control or protect people or property.
my friend yapping on her cellphone AS USUAL:
http://www.remotelounge.com/consolePhotos/images/08-26-2003/200308262106221511.jpg
http://www.remotelounge.com/consolePhotos/images/08-26-2003/200308261742521008.jpg
http://www.remotelounge.com/consolePhotos/images/08-26-2003/200308262127191412.jpg