meyouother

The contemporary identity is characterized by its indetermination and its trasversality its evanescence and untouchability. Showing itself to the world it is never present but always elsewhere. The project is meant to show how we can swap from unique to manifold and the other way round. The application selects casually an image from the record of photos and, sets a pixels of it on the stage. The result is an image created by arrays of pixels drawing or tending to configurate in a casual way an inexistent identity.

5883 Sectors of Structure

5883 Sectors of Structure is a personally mapped timeline of information gathering and order.
It maps both graphically the time spent filling out and researching personal family information for a collection of application forms that were required while applying for a NZ residency permit.
It starts with the IP address of the NZIS website (on our intital contact) and ends with our successful application number.

mimoSa

mimoSa is a continuous workshop that moves around Brazilian cities collecting people's stories using recycled and reconstructed technologies. The aim of the workshops is to design a machine capable of altering the Brazilian mediascape. During the workshops a group of artists, programmers, and activists create and operate this machine. The machine records stories, stores them in a database, broadcasts them on FM, and records them to CD. It also prints telephone numbers and instructions on city streets and walls so that people passing by are able to access the stories via their mobile phones. mimoSa maps
these activities via its web portal from which visitors can access both audio and video interviews.

System for multiple compositions on a theme

System for Multiple Compositions on a Theme is a series of videos shot and edited on analog equipment in 1995 for the sole purpose of experimenting with editing video to create audio compositions. Rather than the norm of composing a video, the image, into a sequence, here the audio was composed and the accompanying image became incidental, secondary.

The re-presentation of the video experiments on the internet not alone document and expose them to a wider audience than the original analog cassettes but also serves as a means to progress the early video experiments as a website experiment.

The network provides a means to reconfigure the way the work is viewed by changing the artist's (sole author of the art work) relationship with his audience. The artist, rather than defining a narrative, defines a framework for the art to work within. Experimentation with methods of sending, retrieving and presenting information on the internet, such as the use of html forms and server side scripting allows him to this time construct a system for controlling / viewing the art work rather than a simple art work that is to be viewed. The spectacle of cinema and its audience is replaced with individual user's separated and distributed across many spaces / places as co-author's / contributor's to their viewing and interpretation of the artists work.

The composition creation interface on the website, allows users to actively participate in the composition of the experiments and experience an approximation of the act of originally editing these experiments by the artist. It consists of a grid of nine positions, three across and three down, where any position on the grid can be occupied by any of the nine videos any number of times. This gives a possible 2318107019760 combinations, where...

18 + 182 + 183 + 184 + 185 + 186 + 187 + 188 = 2318107019760

Videos can be given a parameter to loop, loop back and forth or not loop. Lag, download speed on the internet, as well as video duration is used as a means to vary how the videos will display / sound within the website creating an overlap that is never quite the same.