Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel
T_Visionarium I
2004
© Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Franz Wamhof
- Artist / Artist group
- Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel
- Title
- T_Visionarium I
- Year
- 2004
- Category
- Computer-based
- Installation
- Material / Technique
- Custom-made spherical air-inflated structure (Précontraint 501 FERRARI), two fan motors, air lock, rotatable projector rack, projector, interface, custom-made electronics, two computers (PC) (graphic and control computers), operating system (Linux), custom software, headphones, headphone amplifiers
- Dimensions / Duration
- Height 900 cm, Ø 1200 cm
- Contributors
- Programmierung (Distributed Video Engine)
- Programmierung (Anwendungssoftware)
- Programmierung (Anwendungssoftware)
- Programmierung (Anwendungssoftware)
- Ton
- Programmierung (Anwendungssoftware)
- Programmierung (Anwendungssoftware)
- Projektleitung, Interaktionsdesign
- Management
- Management
- Assistenz
- Assistenz
- Assistenz
- Programmierung (Leitung Softwareentwicklung)
- Description
- 48 television channels from across Europe,24 hours of programming each – all recorded, analysed, and distributed across the interior surface of a twelve-metre dome. Inside this immersive environment, viewers do not switch channels with a remote control. Instead, they turn their heads: whichever direction they look, a different channel comes into view. Television becomes architecture; channel-surfing becomes a physical act. The installation was developed for EVE (Extended Virtual Environment), a projection dome created by Jeffrey Shaw in 1993. At its centre, a video projector mounted on a motorised pan/tilt mechanism can direct images anywhere on the dome's interior. One visitor wears a spatial tracking device that registers the position and angle of their head. The projector follows this gaze, so the projected image always appears where the visitor is looking. With two projectors, the system can also generate stereoscopic 3-D imagery. »T_Visionarium I« extends this apparatus into the realm of broadcast media. The television material is not simply stored but enriched with metadata describing its content – dialogue, landscape, faces, movement. Visitors can filter the channels by selecting keywords: choosing "dialogue," for instance, causes only scenes containing conversation to appear, synchronized across all channels. Disparate programmes suddenly align, and unexpected narrative connections emerge between fragments that were never meant to be seen together. The work premiered at Euralille, Lille, as part of the European Capital of Culture Festival 2004. It was conceived by Jeffrey Shaw together with Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, and Peter Weibel, and produced in collaboration with EPIDEMIC (Paris), the iCinema Research Centre at UNSW Sydney, and ZKM Karlsruhe.
Author
MR
Images
Neil Brown, Dennis Del Favero, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel, »T_Visionarium I«, 2004, Custom-made spherical air-inflated structure (Précontraint 501 FERRARI), two fan motors, air lock, rotatable projector rack, projector, interface, custom-made electronics, two computers (PC) (graphic and control computers), operating system (Linux), custom software, headphones, headphone amplifiers © Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Franz Wamhof© Dennis Del Favero, Neil Brown, Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel; Photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Photo: Franz Wamhof