Welcome to STORY TREES (online).
STORY TREES runs smoothly on macOS and WINDOWS 10, but is not designed for mobile phones or tablets.
For best result: use the CHROME browser on your laptop or desk computer with at least 8GB of RAM. Other browsers: Firefox is buggy, and Safari on older macs can be slow.
This short video demonstrates how to use STORY TREES.
INSTALLATION > READ ME > important:
When you click to open the online exhibit, STORY TREES will make a request to use your webcam. Grant permission. Another window will automatically open with 'loading' displayed in the top left hand corner of the screen. Depending on your internet speed & wifi bandwidth, it takes about 15 seconds (fibre) or approximately two-minutes (DSL) to load the STORY TREES content.
STORY TREES rewards patience & slow engagement. Feel free to move around in front of your computer screen; your body & head will still be tracked by the webcam. If you're using a peripheral webcam (and not the one embedded in the screen) make sure the camera is centred atop your display monitor. To adjust how the webcam software 'sees' you, tilt the screen (or your peripheral stand-alone webcam).
The more you look at any particular image, the blend of voices becomes richer and more nuanced. You can also click at any time — anywhere on the screen — to advance to the next group of storyboards.
Headphones work as well as fixed speakers. And the images themselves have attractive design features that encourage slow.
Click this link to load STORY TREES ONLINE exhibition content.
Keep in mind the sentiments you hear in STORY TREES reflect an era that is quite different in tone from our present day. For context, the 1975 audio documentary & recordings that inspired the exhibition are here (you can stream for free — a financial contribution is most welcome). Additional content will be added from time to time.
hurry up & go slow...
STORY TREES runs smoothly on macOS and WINDOWS 10, but is not designed for mobile phones or tablets.
For best result: use the CHROME browser on your laptop or desk computer with at least 8GB of RAM. Other browsers: Firefox is buggy, and Safari on older macs can be slow.
This short video demonstrates how to use STORY TREES.
INSTALLATION > READ ME > important:
When you click to open the online exhibit, STORY TREES will make a request to use your webcam. Grant permission. Another window will automatically open with 'loading' displayed in the top left hand corner of the screen. Depending on your internet speed & wifi bandwidth, it takes about 15 seconds (fibre) or approximately two-minutes (DSL) to load the STORY TREES content.
STORY TREES rewards patience & slow engagement. Feel free to move around in front of your computer screen; your body & head will still be tracked by the webcam. If you're using a peripheral webcam (and not the one embedded in the screen) make sure the camera is centred atop your display monitor. To adjust how the webcam software 'sees' you, tilt the screen (or your peripheral stand-alone webcam).
The more you look at any particular image, the blend of voices becomes richer and more nuanced. You can also click at any time — anywhere on the screen — to advance to the next group of storyboards.
Headphones work as well as fixed speakers. And the images themselves have attractive design features that encourage slow.
Click this link to load STORY TREES ONLINE exhibition content.
Keep in mind the sentiments you hear in STORY TREES reflect an era that is quite different in tone from our present day. For context, the 1975 audio documentary & recordings that inspired the exhibition are here (you can stream for free — a financial contribution is most welcome). Additional content will be added from time to time.
hurry up & go slow...
I followed your advice and took my time and I went from a disoriented state/experience to being drawn in to what was going on. I felt like I had a shift of consciousness (not quite the right words but as close as I can describe it). Something perceptually had to shift in me to accommodate what I was experiencing so that I could render what I was experiencing as ‘something'. This shift made me, I think maybe for the first conscious time in my life, aware of my perceptual world or rather how my perceptual apparatus shifts to accommodate what is in or offered by my perceptual field. Once oriented, the various senses that were evoked by the stories, sounds and images become somehow integrated, and therefore understandable. Prior to this re-orientation there was a lot of confusion. I suspect that with the feedback through the camera there was an active interaction going on such that my perceptual apparatus was interacting with the ‘program’ to reach some kind of synching or at least some mutual awareness and responsiveness. Quite a remarkable experience for me.” — BW, educational psychologist
visit STORY TREES often — the experience is never the same way twice.