MFACA.SVA.
Dual Video Model
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Dual Video Model This installation will explore the interconnection of real world and computer generated data. It can be seen as an interface of video editing through the net, randomly generated relations of information and algorithms. The goal is to question or to generate questions around the issue of how reality can modify the virtual world and vice versa. The installation will have a scale model of various different spaces and a digital bi-dimensional simulation of the scale model. The scale model will simulate real spaces such as a room, a park, or a building, etc. The scale model will be equipped with a microcontroller system that will activate different functions producing changes in the model. These could be light, sound, or other changes that would simulate reality. The microcontroller will receive data from a server. The server will receive data from sensors placed in real spaces, measuring the same type of light levels, sound frequencies and others. The scale model will be monitored by strategically located webcams that will be accessible via Internet. Through video users could visually access the different pre-made scenes in the scale model. Through this interface Internet users will only have the possibility of watching one scene of their choosing at a time. However, traffic generated due to users accessing the site, as well as tracking of users selection of webcams would have an effect on the scale model and on the digital visualization of the scale model. This digital visualization will be a “bird’s eye” view of the model showing only empty spaces and borders, where organisms ruled by algorithms would coexist. These organisms would alter their behavior according to levels of light changes, sound frequency, or interference due to net traffic, etc. The digital model will be screen based and it will be part of the installation. It could eventually be on the Internet as well. The webcams would have two outputs, one to the Internet, where users would choose scenes, and other to monitors within the installation. Within the installation there would be a component of random editing of video. To develop the ideas summarized above I would need to research microcontrollers and sensors, as well as algorithms, and behavior and interaction of random information. I would also have to investigate how to make the webcam system work, considering both the website and the monitors. To develop the algorithms I would probably use Flash or processing. |
Proposed reading list
Publications
A thousand years of nonlinear history, Manuel delanda.