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Interactive video installation
Programming MAC: Bart Vandeput
Programming PC & sound: Adam Kendall
Sound objects: Ludo Engels
Set design: Marcus Bering
3D animation: Real Reality
production: Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds - www.vaf.be
Nadine vzw - www.nadine.be
CCNOA center for contemporary non-objective art - www.ccnoa.org
Adem vzw
VIDEO 1
The installation consists of 1000 metallic latex black balloons forming two corridors (each is around 3 m long) leading to central circle space. It reminds one of extraterrestrial faces or living cells, futuristic building or a laboratory, children house on Halloween night. It gives mixed feelings of curiosity, attraction and disgust at the same time. Construction threatens by the shining metallic surface and disturbs by fragility of thin material of balloons.
When visitor moves through the narrow corridor, from time to time he accidentally touches the balloon wall, invoking mumbling, noisy sounds and an occasional weak light shining from inside.
When he reaches the central space, his movements affect changes in audio and video environment. The closer his approach to the opposite wall, the more it is populated by blurry images and creatures. A few steps further he can clearly recognize the creatures – television news speakers mixed with images of robots and andronoids in blurry images.
When visitor is in the middle of the space – all images and faces are clear and bright (as much as they can be on such surface) but sounds become loud and messy, creating the noisy conditions that are difficult to bear.
If spectator moves close to wall, the cacophony of voices goes down creating the place for one or two images. They stay visible, it is possible to understand about what they are talking, and what is it.
This piece uses images from news bulletins broadcast by various international television stations. They will be recorded for 2-3 weeks. These short films (which, themselves, first underwent journalistic treatment) will be collected and some of them will be reworked and provided with a new sound track. The sequences are regrouped and combined in a system of 40 cells navigation.
While exposing the visitor to staged virtual life, the installation places him physically and emotionally face-to-face with a worrying reality filled with accidents, potential destruction and dramas and love stories...
equipment:
01. 1 x computer MAC or PC with a monitor and keyboard
a. Processor: -- Intel Core2-duo 2.4Ghz or 2.93Ghz; b. RAM -- 2Gb.; c. Hard-Drive -- not less than 100Gb.; d. Video-Card -- ATI or NVidia; e. OS; Sound Card/Interface; h. 3 firewire entrance
02. 1 x video projector not less x 3000 lum
03. 1 x black/white survey camera
04. RCA Male to Male cable 10-15 m
05. 1 x image grabber (analogue ti digital)
06. 1 x M-Audio 410
07. 8 x small speakers
08. 1 x Matrox triple
09. 700 ballons
10. 1 x matrix construction
11. 12 x MP3 objets (inside of balloons) – could be more…
12. 2 x VGA cables (male to male) 15 m each
