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.

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