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This is an interactive/installation art project called "REALITY MEDIA JAMMER" developed by Roopesh Sitharan
What you see here is just a working model of the actual installation that will required active participation from audience moving through the "physical installed" space, please refer to the diagram for further details on the installation.
Well, you can start by experimenting with the JAVA/ONLINE version of the artwork that is provided here. This is part of the system development process of REALITY MEDIA JAMMER.
Please pay attention to the dynamic flow of the sound and how it interacts with the speed and direction of the flickering media waves. In the actual installation, this is how it would work:
(Pls refer the diagram as you read this)
DIRECTION: controlled by the direction of the movemements by audience across the projection.
SPEED: controlled by the amount of participants that is entering the projected space
COLOR CHOICE: decided by the external factors from the installed space, such as humudity, noise level and etc.
The artwork is formulated by extending and merging several ideas that I have developed as part of my programmming class with Prof. Ralph Abraham, the concepts are(in no particular order):
1-The idea of playing with "random" and "order". This is my attempt in agitating participants to seek order and formulate structure in a chaos situation, in this case the projected visual and sound.
2-Thinking along the idea of chaos vs order, this is also an attempt to find the logic and connection between sound + visual in the ways we preceive our reality and surrounding.
3-A critique towards mainstream media. By adopting the visual display that resembles TV signals, I hope to enable participants to reconsider the media as being totalitarian, in a way I hope the work will draw atttention to the independency of media by "pointing out its interdependency with the audience, socio-politics and cultural ethos"
For more info on the artist, refer to the website:
http://www.roopesh.com
All documents, webpages, photographs and images are the property of the artist, except where noted. Permission is not required to copy, download or use any text, photographs, image files and program.
This work is concieved and developed by Roopesh Sitharan, any question please email the artist at rs@roopesh.net. Copyright Roopesh Sitharan, 2008