Sexual Jealousy: The Shadow of Love

media places. The tour will perhaps prepare us to question computer “agents” [3] and the new electronic landscapes, not in terms of their overt form, but their utter formlessness. Notes 1. Muto(scupe) is an interactive Hypercard work for Macintosh I1 series computers with 13-in color display (24 bit preferred), 5 MB RAM and 80 MB hard drive that explores the mixed culture of popular cartoon animation through its material and ideclogical models. 4. Used popularly as both noun and verb, a morph is a computer-generated special effect that smoothly transformsone image or figure into another. 3. An ugmt is a computer software entity, possibly endowed with personality, that acts as a guide to an extensive information space. SEXUALJEALOUSY: THE SHADOW OF LOVE Sonya Rapoport, 6 Hillcrest Court, Berkeley,CA 94705, U.S.A. Michael McNabb, 120Virginia Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. SexualJealousy: The Shadow o f Love is a computer-assisted interactive installation , with music by Michael McNabb, in which participants investigate the sources of their jealousy and methods for coping with their feelings [11. The artwork employs metaphorical illustrations and direct questions to probe the intensely personal and currently highly visible subject of sexual jealousy. The title refers to the observation that jealousyreflects or shadowsthe initial reason for the attraction. The work’s Hypercard stack contains attraction sequences that are “played”by Indonesian puppets (Fig. 5) and soap opera clips that illustrate methods for coping with sexual jealousy [2].Depending on the attraction and coping choices made by the participant, the computer ultimately displays then prints out a configuration of a pair of footprints . This footprint image is a step toward finding the participant’s shadow message. The message [3], excerpted from a movie script, is revealed on a nearby monitor on which the duplicate footprints are displayed among other footprint configurations. An interactive multichannel computermusic installation [4] surrounds the area in which the participant is seated at the computer. A distant, continuous, algorithmic composition, evocative of Javanese court gamelan, is in continuous dialogue with the computer program. Fig. 6. Anita Margrill, Pminsula Tell-Taleand ouet. look sculptureof wind, photovoltaics , steel,polyurethane , 40 ft, 1992. Thisweather vane/solar beacon ,topped by a funkyblue hand, was installedon the mud-flatsi n Fmeryville, California . Participants, the third party in the interaction , make choices on the Macintosh that signal changes in the musical character of the composition. Musical variation is set corresponding to one of the five attraction (emotion) messages from the computer. Six instruments representing coping (action) normally play sparsely until the coping action message brings the relevant instrument to the foreground. The orchestration is then modified in celebration of the revealed shadow message. A real-time spacial musical composition is created in combination with the three previous participants ’ musical celebrations. Notes 1. SexuulJeulousy is a sequel to Sonya Rapoport’s participation performance Coping With SexualJealousy that took place in the Pauley Ballroom at the University of California in 1981.Dr. Ayala Pines was the consulting psychologist in the development of this work. 4 . The computer program was created with Hypercard 2.01 on a Macintosh IIcx. The clips of soap operas were captured by QuickTime arid Adobe Premier software and appear on contextually related cards in the Hypercard stack. Three groups of images also accompany the text throughout the program: Aubrey Beardsley drawings, Indonesian shadow puppets, and Jungian mythological images. Marie Sat assisted with graphics and used Adobe Photoshop. Ed Payne was the software designer and used Hypercard and MacroMedia Director . 3. For example: “Whyhaven’t you told me this before ?”;“FinallyI blurted out my news.” 4. Michael McNabb used a NeXT computer in creating the music. PENINSULA’”ELLTALE AND OVERLOOK Anita Margrill, 670 Shotwell St., San Francisco, CA 94110, U.S.A. Peninsula Tell-Taleand Overlook (Fig. 6) is a 40-ft high weather vane/solar beacon sited on the edge of San Francisco.Bay, adjacent to a well-usedjogging path and the Emeryville mud-flats. At the base of the structure are seats for tired joggers. Near the top, a funky blue hand reaches out to seize the horizon in whatever direction the wind is blowing.Capping the Words on Works 17 ...