COLOMBIA
"MODULAR SOLUTION FOR CORRIDOR REACTIVE INSTALLATIONS", 2009
(Wiring I/O board, the parallax ultrasonic ping sensor and "Processing"
including two extra libraries: the video library and the serial port
library)
ARTIST'S MATERIAL:
[ENGLISH]
The MSCRI, Modular Solution for Corridor Reactive Installations is an sketch for a set of solutions to create installations which use real time video as the main input source. The visual component of MSCRI explores light masses in real time working with present and near past of video image. The body of the spectator affects with his/her motion the system, but nothing is attached to his/her body.
In MSCRI the real time video image is self mixed or self blended but it happens using different previous frames. Visualization of algorithms are used as a curtain -mask- behind the video in real time and the previous frames. Additional video filters are explored in order to enhance the predominance of certain luminance conditions. Additionally some basic robotic elements are included in order to scan a wider area with a distance sensor.
[CURATORSHIP TXT EXTRACT]
The presence of the spectator as part of the work reappears in Modular Solution for Corridor Reactive Installations (2009) by the Colombian Andrés Burbano, but according to an algorithmic logic and from a corporal presence, taken above all in its motor-sensory dimension. It is an installation that uses a video circuit in real time as a source of “inputs”, but the derived images from this inflow are projected using “computing optics” mixing with pre-programmed algorithms and position and distance sensors scanning the spectators’ bodies in the space. What we see are forms and lines generated by these diverse filters that are added to the captured image. Even though this is not a reference or explicit preoccupation of the author, the system created by Burbano reminds us of the “newer” generation of video surveillance that couples algorithmic layers to the cameras, supposedly making them capable of detecting suspicious or threatening behavioural movement.
[TXT CURADORIA TRECHO]
A presença do espectador como parte da obra reaparece em Modular Solution for Corridor Reactive Installations (2009) do colombiano Andrés Burbano, mas segundo uma lógica algorítmica e a partir de uma presença corporal tomada sobretudo em sua dimensão sensório-motora. Trata-se de uma instalação que utiliza o circuito de vídeo em tempo real como fonte de “inputs”, mas as imagens derivadas dessa captação são projetadas numa “ótica computacional” misturando-se a algoritmos pré-programados e a sensores de posição e distância rastreando os corpos do espectador no espaço. O que se vê são formas e linhas geradas por esses diversos filtros que se adicionam à imagem capturada. Ainda que esta não seja uma referência ou uma preocupação explícita do autor, o dispositivo criado por Burbano nos remete às chamadas “novas” gerações da vídeo-vigilância, que adicionam camadas algorítmicas às câmeras, tornando-as supostamente capazes de detectar padrões de movimento considerados suspeitos ou perigosos.
BIO
Andres Burbano is currently a PhD candidate of Media Arts and Technology at University of California Santa Barbara. "Burbano, originally from Colombia, explores the interactions of science, art and technology in various capacities: as a researcher, as an individual artist and in collaborations with other artists and designers. Burbano's work ranges from documentary video (in both science and art), sound and telecommunication art to the exploration of algorithmic cinematic narratives. The broad spectrum of his work illustrates the importance- indeed, the prevalence- of interdisciplinary collaborative work in the field of digital art."
