I must now begin to focus on the realization of my thesis installation proposal. I feel that it is vitally important I incorporate the internet into the installation in some way after being deeply inspired by Melanie Wein’s ‘Fleetingness of Bits’ project, and the method in which this will occur is the internet becoming an interface between the user and the installation. The user uploads data [audio, video, image] to the installation projection loop via the internet, and somewhere along the process this information becomes decayed in some fashion.
Using Twitter as an interface between the user and the installation throws up the possibility of some extremely complex and interesting relationships.
Using Twitter/Twitpic, the user could ‘Twit’ data [audio, image, video] to the installation projection. The Twitter application would decay the data in some fashion before incorporating it into the installation projection loop, and posting it to an online database. The decayed data would also be ‘Twitted’ back to the user.
An extra layer of complexity would exist in a secondary camera situated as part of the physical installation, which would record the projected results and re-twit them back to the Twitter application in the form of videos and stills. This recording feedback could then be re-run through the decaying process before being sent back to the user, who would see their original data incorporated into the installation.
The nature of social networking and the recent developments in mobile internet capabilities encourages impromptu and spontaneous micro-blogging, and it is more than likely that visitors to the physical installation would document what they see. This may involve taking videos/photographs of the installation on their mobile phones and uploading to various internet sites. If the viewers are directed to send their recordings to the decaying Twitter application, this would add yet another layer of complexity into the relationship of the system.
The emphasis now must be on the process of automating the digital decay of the data, starting with some experimentation into real-time recording-projection techniques which explore the concept of digital memory.
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