Another Proposal for ( C ) lick Me – A manifestation about internet pornography

A series of paintings (digital print on canvas) showing screenshot-like images referring to the aesthetics of internet pornography. The erogenous zones are covered with the obligatory “stars” and “bars”. In order to see the hidden parts of the image the audience has to touch the image at these certain areas. Due to the thermochromic ink (temperature sensitive) the overprinted color a these points disappear and release/free the hidden part/s. After cooling down, the stars/bars appear again.

This piece also deals with the missing haptics (surface) in digital communication, as well as it explores the reaction of the audience. On the one hand, the audience is normally never allowed to touch an image or a painting, on the other hand, touching the described regions of the images exposes the mind of the user to the rest of the audience … Make it hot to see what’s beyond :-)

Artists:
Stefan Kainbacher (Neon Golden)
Jeldrik Schmuch (Sinisthere, Futurelab)
Jona Hoier (Sofa23)

The idea of two of more vj’s playing their own channel/stream and feeding that to the other vj(’s). So every vj mixes his own interpretation of the sound with the channels/streams of the other vj(’s). That means they all will fit together, but the more vj’s there are, the more different canvas’ are there … Detailed proposal will follow soon.

The idea of projecting the audience in the past, the present and the predicted (computed) future.

To investigate methods for predicitng movement, (of pixels), within digital video in realtime. As such a setup is simple in concept but computationaly intensive it may be interesting to think about what it would look like. If for example a subject runs from left to right across a screen the result would display the faster moving elements of the subject further right than their origin. It would stretch and extrude the subject with an elasticity relative to the speed of the elements or pixels. So the faster the framerate and higher the resolution the more accurate the prediciton.

This is not a realistic software for current computer processors but as a challenge I will investigate what is possible with current technoligies. Let’s say, hypothetically, you can only process 12 pixels, a 4×3 video matrix. The trick will then be to see what you can do with those 12 pixels. In addition how else could you predict, or what else could be predicted with computer vision and what could it be used for.

Proposal for ( C ) lick Me – A manifestation about internet pornography

This installation targets the relationship between human and machine. Seeing the personal computer as an equivalent partner using a dildo (human shape but technically [re]produced) mounted on a joystick (gaming device) as interface the audience is able to “visualize” the feelings of the computer. The more the user “interacts” with the installation by rubbing the phallus the more processes are triggered, until the computer is totally occupied by the interaction. Error messages appear due to the excessive usage. The digital orgasm will crash the computer. A reboot resets the installation.

The exhibition setup changes the paradigm of the voyeur perspective. Private turns to public. Also playing with that fact, the user himself gets part of the installation and is exhibited to the visitors.

I hate zapping.

Proposal will follow soon …

Place a coin or as many coins as you can from your pocket onto a table to create an electrical circuit; to make a connection. The user places a coin onto the nylon plastic table, joining two of the slightly raised metal slugs thus creating an electronic circuit. The connection is detected instantly by a computer that then flashes an image (2-3 frames) onto the underside of the table, viewable on top; at the same time generating a ‘snappy’, ‘lightening like’ sound in sync with the image. This repeats slowly at random intervals (3-5sec) until the coin is taken off. The more coins on the table the quicker and more frequent it flashes. Please see attached illustrations. My aim is to create a work that emphasises interaction and encourages the user to consider and participate in a fiscal narrative with social consequences. This work is more than a live video installation, a virtual experience, a technological puzzle or gimmick; it focuses instead on actual user interaction and the experience of a result. The work was born from the phrase ‘Money Conducts Electricity’. The images represent randomly all things that money influences - oil industries, homeless people, political figures, mass production, education, the third world, war, music, environment, consumer choices etc.