Sep 10, 2011

INTERACTIVITY & TECHNOLOGY: videoportfolio Sneja_D (2011)

I was always fascinated by interactive installations that make spectators become part of a show.

In ‘Diect I & Direct II’ (2006), I used for the first time moving detectors which I hid in different corners of the gallery. Spectators activated different sequences just by walking through the gallery.


'Direct', 2006 (Exhibition: Observe-Adapt-Direct)




In ‘ISO pop corn - 2nd Generation human designed pop corn’ , I use Isadora for tracking and triggering, a recently discovered program which I am currently experimenting with and which I wish to explore in my future projects. Isadora is a 'graphic programming environment for Macintosh and Windows that provides interactive control over digital media, with special emphasis on the real-time manipulation of digital video'.


‘ISO pop corn - 2nd Generation ...’, 2009-2011



‘ISO pop corn - 2nd Generation ...’ is an interactive video installation created in collaboration with Elisabeth Flunger (percussionist and composer) for 3-5 simultaneous video projections with multi-track-sound, with or without live musical performance.

The interactive installation consists of 20 video clips. Each sequence shows the explosion of a different grain of corn. Each sequence is different in the sense that each grain of corn, when it explodes, gives birth to a new shape, a new set of movements and sounds. Each explosion engenders its own implicit narrative environment and every environment is translated with an acoustic emotion: the excitement that comes before the explosion, the relatively intense and virulent outbreak followed by the phase of release, exhaustion or absence.

I captured the transformation from corn to pop corn with a high speed camera. The thousands of still images were cleaned, edited in interactive segments and played back as a movie at 25 fps. I asked Elisabeth Flunger (www.eflunger.com) to produce the soundtrack with her usual instruments which are heavy metallic objects and create an acoustic atmosphere with sounds which you would not expect to hear in connection to ultra light elements like pop corn.

The video sequences and sounds are trigger by the movements of spectators and dancers. Through the randomly activated scenes, the installation offers unlimited variations of compositions and lengths and merges with additional sounds generated during timed music performances by Elisabeth Flunger. The spectator who has also become actor is surrounded by different acoustic environments: the sounds triggered by himself interact and merge with the live performances.

The installation ‘ISO popcorn - 2nd Generation ... is a tribute to nature, its power and impulsive side. It is a tribute to the beauty of any act or natural process, which by definition, is never completely predictable, nor controllable.

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