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March 12, 2003
Ole Kristensen and Alberto Frigo Present Recent Works
Ole Kristensen and Alberto Frigo from Art and Technology at Chalmers University of Technology, Innovative Design, discuss their recent projects with new media.
Ole Kristensen
A project for landscapes and high velocity travellers, imagine that you sit in a train, looking out the window. Watching the landscape passing by. Little white luminescent dots start to circle just outside the window. Apparently they float in mid air. Just in front of your window and draw shapes, form words with the help of a few sensors, circuits and fast-flickering light emitting diodes, poles along the track now try to write, or just draw lines and forms that connect them with each other, the landscape and the traveller. Their circuitry knows about passing humans, speed and persistence of vision.
Alberto Frigo
[sux_doc#03] consists of an on-line application to stream and interface visual data gathered wearing a computer. Such data documents every whatever self-engaging task a possible wearer (by now myself) overcome during a whatever day (i.e. getting the coins out to buy a coke can from a vending machine at the metro stop, stirring a Sturbucks coffee with a plastic tea spoons). The occasional audience (possibly the same wearer) would then assist over time to the construction of my/his/her(ours?) general personal idea related to my/his/her(ours?) experience of NEXT 2.0.
The computer I am pursuing consists of an index mounted camera that and a microphone that records the wearer labeling such task with a synthetic description. Each unit (an image + an audio sample + GPS + time coordinates) is then sent to a virtual space (the actual interface) on the net in form of a particle interacting with the preexisting stored ones. The interaction occurs in various levels depending upon the similarities that each particle share when bumping into an other (i.e. clustering, attracting repelling, extinguishing). The world represented then constantly maps the wearer existence. The wearer has on his/her own side a tool to recollect his/her own ideas, navigating his/her own conscious. Self-prediction and interpretation are easily extracted from such experience.
My work interlaces the motif: "construct your personal ID". I have started out some years ago in Vancouver, Canada as a performance artist incorporating my studies as an industrial designer. Between now and then I partially took most of my time off to get a better understanding of the computational craft in relation to the project I am currently conducting here at Innovative Design, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
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