Wildlife

At night projections from moving cars are shone on the buildings downtown. Each car projects a video of a wild animal. The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. If the presence of a moving object (such as another car or pedestrian) is detected with proximity sensors, its animal “avatar” appears in the projection.
For the ZeroOne ISEA2006 I will be using one vehicle with a projection of a tiger (additional animals will appear in the projection as reflections of passing vehicles and pedestrians).
Projection disappears and flickers as it is supported by the architecture. The city itself is an active partner in creating this alter ego.
We are elevated from the everyday reality through this element of fantasy into a world with more dimensions, possibilities and perhaps beauty.

created by Karolina Sobecka

Falling Life

 M. Bielicky+K.B.Richter

Falling Life is a permanently ongoing project that was introduced for the first time in Berlin in August 2005. It represents permanently appearing and disappearing information of our time and at the same time the fall of our western decadent civilization.
The particular use of the public space as an expanded cultural space is an important aspect of the project. This urban screening generally doesn’t need a curator or a gallery; it doesn’t need a fixed place, time or even an access to the electric power. Without any preparation and without any permits we are operating in a kind of projection guerilla style. We are equipped with a laptop, a compact light powerful projector and a small power generator. We simply decide when, where, how and what we will display. With this very mobile equipment we are able to have an instant presence in the info landscape of cities.
Another important aspect of Falling Life – News deals with the heavy infoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information are the news today. The news have been turning more and more into an entertainment – the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time. Also visual artists, scientists, intellectuals and advertisers produce mostly noisy information of any form and contribute in this way to infoEcological disaster.
With this awareness we decided to create a reduced visual language for public space as an alternative to the heavily polluted public information space (urban space, Internet, TV, printed matter, galleries, museums etc.) We believe one should consciously and ecologically approach contents and amount of data in the physical and digital space.
In our real time news visualization we reduce the content only to headlines and key words which appear in the news the most often. These reduced news are displayed as a dynamic pictogram language which is considered to be universal and instantly understandable. Because we use only white pictograms on a black background the typical screen format disappears and we transform the space into another form. The quick and universal language can be read by the spectator in passing by attitude without needing to stop. We hope to contribute with our minimalist data visualization to the to the infoEcology paradigm.

Stop infoPollution!