Presented at
Still Hacking Anyway (SHA2017),
Aug. 5, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
(60 minutes)
I propose to present an interactive scenario with 3D glasses and wireless surveillance cameras. These applications are used by the public in order to enter a hybrid space, mixing haptic and virtual reality, adding a second layer to the public space.
#Making
The aim is to let people reflect and participate in order to talk about the future of social interactions in general and yet to still acknowledge how the basic human need for direct communication and affection remains.
The underlying idea is to use an avatar which is actually representing a human performer based in public space. This is a logical consequence of the wide use of AV applications we can now see on an everyday basis and is also considering the significant amounts of time people are already willing to invest in virtual relations, e.g. via social networks.
A professional performer will produce video content from cameras mounted to his or her head, while engaging into a task given by the "player" (member of the public) within public space. This information is then streamed to contemporary 3D glasses used by the "player", creating the effect, that the received material is seen "through the eyes" of another person (the performer), because it is displayed directly in front of the eyes the user.
This feeling is so immersive, that people will adapt their body and head movement towards the action of the performer because the received video content is so intense.
Former Presentation of the technology within a larger Context of the project “TOYs“
April 2010, Frankfurt: Künstlerhaus Mousonturm - Plateaux Festival für internationale Performancekunst /Juni 2011, London: British Computer Society - Konferenz “Electronic Visualization in the Arts” / November 2011, Kassel: 24.Intl. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm und Videofestival - Symposium Interfiction / November 2011, Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt - Symposium “Tracing Mobility” / Juni 2012, Wien: Tanzquartier - Projekt Wissenschaft und Kunst / Juni 2012, Breslau: Festival Survival 10 / Mai 2014, Tallinn: Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design - Ausstellung & Katalog: Rhizope, Art & Science – Hybrid Art and interdisciplinary Research, Eesti Kunstiakadeemia (ISBN 978-9949-467-51-8), p.126-127 / August 2015, Munic: Festival „Isarsprudel“
Presenters:
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Paul Wiersbinski
I studied video art with Mark Leckey and Douglas Gordon at the Städelschule in Frankfurt (Main) and currently live and work in Berlin.
My projects are conducted in between the lines of art, science and technology, touching discourses such as architecture, entomology or cybernetics and referring to the history of performance and video art, as well as utilizing notions of jest and improvisation. Often I construct technical prototypes, which are tried out by the public and go through various phases of continous development.
The result of my artistic process is presented in multiple forms and mediums, often taking the shape of complex sets and installations. I think in an increasingly complex world, interactive research is crucial to observe relevant contexts and that virtual campfires offer short moments of contemplation and solitude in a world obsessed with the reproduction of the self.
My work has been presented in intl. Exhibitions: “RECORD > AGAIN!”, ZKM Karlsruhe (2009), “Encore”, Museum of Modern Art Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main (2011), “The indifference of Wisdom”, NURTUREart New York City (2013), “Risk Society”, MOCA Taipei (2013), “Monitoring”, Docfest Kassel (2016) / festivals &screenings: “EJECT”, Ex-Teresa Mexico City (2010), SALT Beyoğlu Istanbul (2012), “DysTorpia“, Queens Art Museum New York (2012), Luminato Festival Toronto (2014) and received various prices and grands, such as support from Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin (2013).
Many of my works have been produced in international residency programs in connection to scientific topics, e.g. at CENART La Esmeralda, Mexico City (2010), Hotel Pro Forma Copenhagen (2013) or Goethe Institute Nanjing (2013) and I found these opportunities usually productive in developing new projects, which have been touring extensively in international festivals, galleries and museums.
I hold lectures and presentations: “Electronic Visualization and the Arts”, British Computer Society in London (2011), “Tracing Mobility”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2011), “Push your art” Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2013), Club Transmediale Berlin (2014), “Art in the Age of Earthquakes” Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2016).
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