Leonardo Log

Leonardo Log (2004) is a browser-based application, consisting of two components: a Hub and a Log. Upon start-up, visitors have to construct the application: first, the Exit window (which closes Leonardo Log at any time), then the Log and finally a node within the Hub.

From the Hub start six animations sequences, that transmit text to the Log. This final 'poem' can be sent as an eMail from the Log, and will consequently be available for further textual changes or simple archiving.

The texts refer to six existential situations. They describe the following imaginary objects, that could inspire stability or instability in fluid of statics moments: Fluidity Simulator, Mourning Carton, Pleasure Fountain, Quarrel Staff, Spurt Connection, and Think Container. The animations contain abstract and figurative images sequences - associative drawings, which occasionally move across several windows.

Visitors have to discover links; the navigation is hidden in drawing elements; each animation has a different structure, some elements have to be moved, some be clicked on, some simply looked at. Users can send the resulting log book via eMail and use it as a further reference point amidst existential confusion.

external Link: Leonardo Log

PHP Programming of Leonardo Log by Oliver Böhm

Leonardo Log was enabled by an AHRB Research Fellowship 2002-2005. It is part of a series of works begun with Leonardo Log (Klanglandschaft) directed by Horst Konietzny and performed at iCamp Neues Theater, München, in 2002.

on PCs Internet Explorer 6, on Macs Safari. Flash6 Plug-in; Javascript and Pop-up windows must be enabled

featured in:
Expanded Media, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2007
20. Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart, 2007
Siggraph, Boston, 2006
FILE, São Paulo, 2004

also see catalogue "Offline, On()"