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/ panopticum / projection & camera system + imagebanking
panopticum is a computer supported system. A body sized projection shows patterns of gestures the visitors are supposed to re-enact. Furthermore the system is about recording photographic strips which are going to be managed into a database.
Segment 1:
A beamer is projecting a slide show of randomly choosen bodies from the database. The original storage of the database was made of 20 portrait-like images taken from painting or photography.
Examples of this so called generation 0 are a Venus by Cranach, Adam e Eva by Duchamp, an Albion by Blake, Rubens' wife with coat.
Segment 2:
Monitored by a motion detector the visitors will bring the slide-show to stop and start a countdown. The partecipant is now supposed to take over the gesture on the screen. The system activates the 4 cameras at the edges of the installation area. After recording the slide-show will re-start.
Segment 3:
The 4 new pictures are now items of the database, ordered by camera position, model of re-enacting, generation and the average value of the red chanel of the picture. The new pictures are shown on a display togehther with other series choosen after programmed criteria:
one series with the same "original";
one series with a similar gesture;
one series of different views with similar red-chanell values.
Segment 1a:
After recording there is an item more under the "originals": the newst copy of a gesture became the newst original.
exhibitions:
2005 expanded arts no.2, Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh
2004 tECNICHE mISTE, Istituto italiano di cultura, Cologne
2004 expanded arts, ART Cologne
2004 altitude 04, Trinitatis Kirche, Cologne
2003 galerie projektraum, Cologne
