Video:
https://vimeo.com/145273550
Concept:
Interactive
audiovisual installation MediaLab was created in 2015 by Tonoptik collective, whose
members: Alexander Inkov, Yury Gorbachevskiy and Yury Tolstoguzov - set the
task of creation, by means of multimedia technologies, a new experimental
environment for human interaction with the people around or with the
environment in which he is located.
Installation
represents a round interactive table for four participants, each of whom can
use two controls. Due to the special sensors which are built in these controls
and that measure distance to the nearest object, it is possible to interact by
moving hands in the range from 4 to 30 centimeters above them in the vertical
direction. Thus, participants can manage some kind of virtual sliders that
affect an interactive model of the installation which, due to algorithms used,
not only has a unique visual, but also three-dimensional sound modulation that
is implemented by means of a multichannel sound system. At the same time, each of
the participant has a such model which only he can influence, thus, performing a certain part in the
general action. As a result,
anyone can take an active part in the creation of collective work, which is an audiovisual composition.
One of the
main goals of this work is to provide a tool for a new kind of communication
between people, as well as a demonstration of how this communication takes
place. Interaction with the installation is a kind of model for cooperation
within our society, in which we can trace the social processes flowing. Suppose
there is a certain set of tools that participants can use together. First, no
one knows how it all works, so that the result of collective work looks like
chaos, but after gaining some experience, over time, the participants begin to
feel each other, to negotiate, in other words, a self-organization is occurring.
Thus, the installation is a platform for experimentation and research culture
of communication within our society. Using this you can see whether the
participants tend to collective self-organization, how they are willing to work
together, how creative they are. The installation takes the personality and character of each participant within the context of the overall interaction, changing under his influence, creating thereby a unique audiovisual picture.
Software: Touchdesigner
Equipment:
Video projector, 4 channel sound system, 8 IR rangefinder
sensors, Arduino Mega
Exhebitions:
·
“Prostranstvovanie” exhibition
2018, QuartaRiata Residency of Arts & Technology, St. Petersburg
·
MADATAC festival 2017, MADATAC
festival, Centro Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain
·
OpenLook festival 2015, The New
Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
