The possibility of kinetic typography expression in the Internet art museum

This research is aimed at investigating the method of use of kinetic typography in order to appreciate a work in the art museum built by the Internet. Kinetic typography is the animation of the character expressed by computer. With being accompanied by various motions, kinetic typography can add messages, such as feeling and directions, to the meaning which language involves. The Internet art museum is expressed by virtual space, which has two or three dimentions, expressed by computer. The exhibit works in the Internet art museum could be linked to various information, without being restricted to space or time. Kinetic typography may help to grasp the relation of ambiguous information clearly in such case. For example when the information related among some works, must be expresed, the kinetic typography with character motion attached to the work reminds the meaning of information associably. Through the experiment, the attributes of kinetic typography had been indicated as ornamentation of motion, settlement of motion, motion classification, and timebase appearance. A motion is expression of some meanings and includes additional information. When a motion of kinetic typography is applied to the intention of a message, the motion can express a meaning effectively. There is a method of making a motion of kinetic typography generates automatically with a script. This is a possibility of appreciating the Internet art museum which used kinetic typography on the network. “School ofAthens” painted by Sanzio Raffaello was made into the sample in this research. Some kinetic typography scripted by C-language are operated on this picture to show the information construction of the picture. In some casestudies, kinetic typography was pointed out to be an effective tool in order to offer the information related to the works in the Internet art museum. 1. THE PURPOSE OF RESEARCH In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been paid to the device of kinetic typography for visual representation on a computer screen. It is pointed out that the motion of kinetic typography shows kinds of value such as feeling and directions. Kinetic typography is often used for the web of the Internet with a visual effect. The exhibit work introduced by the Internet is usually explained by a figure and a sentence. The visual effect of kinetic typography may explain effectively the exhibit work in the Internet. This research considers a possibility that kinetic typography will carry out effective expression in the Internet art museum. A motion of kinetic typography must be designed in order to visualize the structure of a meaning which the work has. The structure of the motion operated by computer is visualizing the contents of un-visual information. Furthermore, the computer program of kinetic typography mmotion has a possibility of extending the character expression in the Internet. 2. FEATURE OF KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY Kinetic typography is the animation of the character made by computer. Moving a character by computer can express feeling, expression of an image, and explanation of a situation. The character written on paper can express information logically. A picture and animation can express an image directly rather than it expresses information logically. Therefore, kinetic typography may have a nature of both character and animation. A computer monitor is an environment where character and animation are made to live together. I When explaining a figure on the computer monitor, a figure and a sentence are written together as being written to books. In this case, an observer reads a sentence, understands explanation, looks at a figure, applies with explanation, and grasps the whole meaning. That kinetic typography points to a figure directly makes it a part of explanation of a figure recognized comprehensively. At this time, a motion of kinetic typography must express the composition of explaining a figure. That is, to design of kinetic typography needs to reflect the informational composition of explaining. 3. FUNDAMENTAL STRUCTURE OF KINETIC MOTION Motions of kinetic typography have many patterns. The pattern of kinetic motion has ‘movement’, ‘rotation’, ‘appearance’, ‘modification’, of a simple substance character. Moreover, a pattern may express the relation of two or more characters. In this case, the resize of a character and the change of a motion make the visual effect relatively. Since kinetic typography expressed the image visually, the sensuous word is expressed by it. Some Japanese sensuous words were selected as onomatopoeia and mimetic word. Fig. 1 shows a sample of the onomatopoeia of “giggle.” For the experi0-7803-5731-O/99/$10.00 01999 IEEE TV-230