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prontophot
prontophot is an interactive video installation.
It takes images of the visitors at an event, puts them into a video-clip
and makes them dance to the music.
It is designed for a public space with music, e.g. a club, a disco
or a lounge.
prontophot reflects the field of surveillance technology and productions
of visual desires. It seduces the visitors to transform themselves
into the person they always wanted to be. It fulfills the secret
wish to be seen on screen. Instead of the feeling to be watched
it so produces the longing to be in scene.
The main part of prontophot is the enter box. It is the interface
to the visitors. It is build out of several monitors, a button and
a video camera.
To become part of prontophot a visitor has to press the button in
the enter box. After this initial step Prontophot takes six images
in the next two seconds. A computer stores these images.
The same computer loops, triggered by the sound from the DJ, the
images. Therefore making it seem as if the visitor is dancing to
the music. Immediately after the pictures were taken he can watch
himself repeating a random movement which he performed just a second
ago.
Prontophot collects all images. The pool out of which the video-clip
is generated constantly grows. If nobody presses the button it makes
a mix of these saved images, changing the projected person every
few seconds.
Gwand Luzern 2000 -> Video
Eine leicht abgewandelte Version der prontophot Installation, die
ohne Musik funktioniert und ein vorgefertigtes Hintergrund-Video
benutzt.
Remix all Transistor -> Video
Diese Variante von Prontophot ist nicht interaktiv. Es ist der
Vorläufer von clubtomatique. Das Programm erzeugt einen ein
nonlinearer mix der letzten Sekunden des Messestandes von Artexchange.
Dieser Mix wurde auf zwei antiquierten Fernsehern präsentiert.
Art Forum Berlin, 2000
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