IGEN vol#1 interactive AV installation

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interactive AV installation @ Water tower art fest 2011 + DA Fest 2011/ Sofia [BG]

processing Arduino interactive installation installation DA Fest 2011 audience Generator artnomadika

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EXHIBITION CATALOG PREFACE

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Creating a portrait of a found space means creating a portrait of someone else`s artwork. As a retrieved piece of art the space provokes the visitor to interpret it . As an audience and authors at the same time, we decide to create new art object, based on few found spaces , where we are transmitting our personal attitudes. This new piece of art in turn later on will prompt its new subjective interpretations . Thus the process of interpreting will go on and on and on…
With >>>/ INTERPRETATIVE GENERATOR project we are posing the next questions:

If it is the audience that generates an eternal life of each artwork, does the subjectivity within the interpretation of art change the artwork itself ?

Is it possible to prove that we are no longer the author, and the work is self-developing in unexpected directions, using as many authors as necessary?

What could happen if we try to materialize the subjective attitude of numerous audience? To what extent will be developed the created art piece ?

Does it mean at all that because of our subjectivity we can not overlap with each other, and is it possible with our interactions to generate art?

The installation uses collages of architectural details & soundscapes created at several found locations , where later it is shown and offers an interaction with various fragmented AV atmospheres. The textual comments , witch the audience is invited to make, change the image for each participant, depending on several pc keyboard letters. All users watch constantly changing visuals. A brand new piece of art is born live - it is collective, uncontrolled, but only inspired by the initial authors.

Our ongoing documenting experiment aims to attain a state of interactive involvement between art maker and art viewer, interpreter and another interpreter . As a result of that we offer a living piece of art, enriched constantly with new ideas, themes or messages, keeping a maximum open frame . `

The material for the project is collected after spatial AV research on The Water tower – Lozenets, Central Mineral Bath and the North Building of the National Academy of Arts in Sofia . Later in 2011 the project is shown as interactive AV installation and two channel video installation in Sofia on the international festivals WATER TOWER ART FEST , DA FEST- DIGITAL ART FESTIVAL , based in the same buildings, and also on COMPUTER SPACE ART FORUM , it is presented as well on Dorkbot Sofia #9 .

> With the collected textual material ARTNOMADIKA team provoked various Facebook users to take part in the project playing online for 5 days. We called it Facebook bla bla game ( experimental virtual poetry creation with fixed banks of words ). The results we mixed back with the works by the audience of the festivals and we published all in one online catalog. ~

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ARTNOMADIKA team roles for the installation >>

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idea, concept, software and object design, space adaptation : Tsveta Bogdanova :::

photography : Velina Kokalova :::

visual processing: Tsveta Bogdanova, Velina Kokalova :::

software: Simeon Yanchev, Tsveta Bogdanova :::

sound design: Milen Yordanov :::

sound recording: Atanas Ilchev :::

( textual interpretations, visual manipulation: festival audience )

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left image: the object before activation / right image -the object after activation

photos by Velina Kokalova taken on DAFest 2011- National Academy of Arts- Sofia

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2.> user playing @ Water Tower Art Fest , City Bath, Sofia-2011,

photos: Velina Kokalova

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# in this video You can see how IGEN # A works

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# TECHNICAL SKETCHES >>

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MAIN IDEA:

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WAY OF CREATION:

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INSTALLATION COMPONENTS:

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COMPONENTS PLACING:

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OBJECT`S DIMENSIONS AND SPATIAL SIZES:

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TYPE OF SENSOR:

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SHOWN LETTERS ON AN EXTERNAL PC KEYBOARD:

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SCREEN SCALING:

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DOCUMENTARY PICS FROM DA FEST 2011: L >USER IN ACTION/ R> INSTRUCTIONS AFTER ACTIVATION:

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# Snapshots of some visuals manipulated and interpreted by the audience of international festival WATER TOWER ART FEST 2010, held at Water Tower in Lozenets, Sofia. The visual material provided by the ARTNOMADIKA team is gathered from conducted earlier photo research of the same building.

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IGEN#1 :

eternal /commas / So much / bloom / 69 / circle / the others`s secrets / yin-yang / freedom of expression / footage / machine / Oppression / Abstraction/ industry & nature

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IGEN#2 :

hand from above / Rounds / cosmos / dear / flight / Tornado bomb / portal / wings / Time Machine / weird / ring

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IGEN#3 :

triangle / Mr. / pyramid / ladder / myth / eye /tower / angle / mathematics / rotation / climb / square / knowledge / ocher / sad / Jacob / travel / spaces

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IGEN#4 :

gate between worlds / Grave / tree / nature / internal / heaven / box / window / growing again / box / in bed / several / look into it and see sheep, spunk, identity / up there / opening / hole / come on / white / baby / solar cube / aquarium / Little Prince / Nature / contamination

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IGEN#5:

railway station without trains / vast / shadows / lighthouse / light / prison / space / vibrant / reflections / third eye / dragonfly / space / contained / Rapunzel`s / expectation / seeing / Moon tries to smile / elephant / coordinates

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IGEN#6 :

clerk / bird-yoga / white collar / bottom / seagull / Egypt book / stand /walk the street / spiral / room /detail / witch / dark dungeon / + / bird / industry / fifth dimension Moon / a bird / double-leaf / hills / my kitty / elephant ears / bird / …! / two birds together / So is life! /Chekhov / homer / grid / smoldering / angle / 1

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IGEN#7 :

Nike goddess / presence / illuminated area / praying man / gap / twenty-third century / two ropes / praise / mother unveil her child / spirit - tensioner of the reins of a carriage / foreign / T.M.I. / full / igloo /beams / powerful / They are here / orient / silhouette / function / open / head of an owl / “Indigo” children / woman holding: / triumphant lady in a suit

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