4.
STENCILU
StencilU is a quite simple but powerful realtime visualization
of time and personality [9]. It is an interactive installation,
where your silhouette is captured with a camera (see Figure 1)
and the frames of the silhouette are made smaller and arrange
around the actual silhouette. The small silhouettes arranged are
the different time frames. With this technique the motion of yourself
floats around as small representations around your big realtime
shadow (see Figure 8). Accordingly to the speed of the movements
of the user the visual output is inverted, this gives a stroboscope
effect, which resembles a club aesthetic and a motion blur is
switch on randomly which makes the visualization even more club
like.
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8. First version of StencilU
The project was developed at Schmiede 04, a media gathering of
vjs, djs, audio producers, coders, hacktivists, sprayers, etc.,
in one word young individualists who have something to say and
do it with their possibilities [13].
The aesthetics in black and white look like pictures in the sprayer/stencil
community and therefore I came up with the idea to photograph
street art (graffiti tags and stencils) and integrate it in the
project (see Figure 9). So your stencils are combined with the
street art stencils, respectively icons (communist star, guns,
bush, etc.) and result in the visual output.
In this project I used the language of the street and the signs
which can be found out there which is for me a visual short story
of contemporary youth culture, so it’s a very interesting project
for me and I would be interested to make it available to everyone
with a web cam.
Figure 9. StencilU enhanced with street stencils
5.
CITY OBSCURA
City Obscura is an interactive video installation which deconstructs
and then reconstructs the urban space and architecture of the
city of Judenburg, and was exhibited in July 2004 at the Liquid
Music Media Art Festival in Judenburg, Austria [11].
A wide range of different shots of the city’s architecture, people
and crucial places awaits the visitor’s eye. When the spectators
start to move in front of the video screen, their movements get
tracked and these gestures trigger a process of mingling the digital
data streams of the videos itself.
You can see the pixels as tiny bits and pieces of colored blobs,
like a snow storm, revolving around your own shadowy figure on
the video screen and following you wherever you go within the
installation. The recipients can be seen as planets which have
a gravitational force on the videos (see Figure 10).
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10. Distorted video of the city of Judenburg |
