Interactive Video Installation
An interactive video installation translating room activity and volume into an audience-manipulated audio and video mix...
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Interactive Installation
Film Sequence, sample: Level 3
Graphic Sequence, sample: Level 3
In April 2000, Fork was invited to do an interactive video installation for the Sonar festival as part of the "Berlin: Represent" feature highlighting artists and designers from Berlin sprawling the catacombs of the Barcelona Museum of Modern Art.
The Sonar is a music and art festival that takes place every summer in Barcelona. The festival is a blend of top international music acts, primarily electronic, and new artists and designers related to club and music scenes around the world.
The Fork installation "Dog Lovers" was an interactive video piece that measured outside audience activity with Quickcam picture analyses. Incoming Quickcam data was scaled into pre-set variables synchronizing libraries of sound and video clips within a Linux network controlling two Macintosh slaves dedicated to audio and video rendering and connected to beamers and a stereo pa system.
A server scaled incoming data into seven predefined states of "consciousness". On little or no new data, the installation would fall "asleep". On new or frequently changing data the server would "wake" the network, converting new data into constantly changing sound and video sequences, controlling playback speed and overlapping individual elements depending on defined data peaks. In addition to movement around the installation, the piece was particularly sensitive to bright colors. A person wearing a white t-shirt, for example, would trigger a storm of new data, radically altering playback and library selections, in turn creating new associations out of the resulting mix.
Reoccuring clips of dogs fetching sticks, cheeky mug shots and our own play on the official German mascot, the German shepard, overlapped bitmap relics salvaged from screenshots of mail, chat sessions and German industrial parks creating an irregular looping of relentless fetching and bad service, embodied within man's best friend and not unintentionally parodizing the media hysteria permeating German culture that summer.
Very special thanks to Hiaz, Farmer's Manual.
Created on MAX/MSP software with NATO objects and PureData from Miller Puckette.
The Sonar is a music and art festival that takes place every summer in Barcelona. The festival is a blend of top international music acts, primarily electronic, and new artists and designers related to club and music scenes around the world.
The Fork installation "Dog Lovers" was an interactive video piece that measured outside audience activity with Quickcam picture analyses. Incoming Quickcam data was scaled into pre-set variables synchronizing libraries of sound and video clips within a Linux network controlling two Macintosh slaves dedicated to audio and video rendering and connected to beamers and a stereo pa system.
A server scaled incoming data into seven predefined states of "consciousness". On little or no new data, the installation would fall "asleep". On new or frequently changing data the server would "wake" the network, converting new data into constantly changing sound and video sequences, controlling playback speed and overlapping individual elements depending on defined data peaks. In addition to movement around the installation, the piece was particularly sensitive to bright colors. A person wearing a white t-shirt, for example, would trigger a storm of new data, radically altering playback and library selections, in turn creating new associations out of the resulting mix.
Reoccuring clips of dogs fetching sticks, cheeky mug shots and our own play on the official German mascot, the German shepard, overlapped bitmap relics salvaged from screenshots of mail, chat sessions and German industrial parks creating an irregular looping of relentless fetching and bad service, embodied within man's best friend and not unintentionally parodizing the media hysteria permeating German culture that summer.
Very special thanks to Hiaz, Farmer's Manual.
Created on MAX/MSP software with NATO objects and PureData from Miller Puckette.