Myself and Jonathan have just finished our entry for the WRO 07 electronic arts festival in Poland this year. Below is the synopsis we've made and some images of the piece.
Present Tense: Synopsis
Present Tense installation by Jonathan Green and Keir Williams
Present Tense is an interactive sound and video installation exploring individualism in the immersive and almost anonymous information age.
This visitor-reactive multimedia installation presents its materials in real-time in the form of RSS feeds, audio from an analogue radio and live video feeds of the visitors as they enter the installation. Video generated from these materials is back-projected onto fabric, hung in a circular pattern from the ceiling. This creates a small multimedia ‘chamber’ in which a simple dial is situated on a plinth. Turning the dial allows visitors to scrub back in time (the live content is archived in real-time), viewing previous visitors and recalling text from RSS feeds whilst retuning the radio.
Keir Williams interacting with Present Tense
This deluge of information and the ability to navigate through time contributes to the claustrophobic and personal effect of the chamber, which in turn highlights the minute, yet all-powerful role of the individual in relation to the universal dimension and anonymity in the multiplicity of today’s media. The tension generated by the immediate and localised experience of the recent and global past within the present forms an integral part of installation.
Present Tense projection
Present Tense: Further Information
Additional information is available as PDF files for download
There are also more images are available on Flickr and there is a short movie on YouTube.
Close-up of the controller (jog wheel) for Present Tense
Layout schematic of Present Tense
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