meshes, München
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Interactive film concept – please send in your photos via MMS or email to: lab30@meshes.org
During the lab.30-festival in Augsburg, visitors can send in photographs by MMS, which are then sorted by image-comparison software. The software immediately creates a film which is displayed on monitors or projectors.
We invite the public and their own photography-capable mobile phones to photograph and to send these pictures to a central telephone number. These photographs of groups, individuals, street scenes, passers-by, events, performances, objects, buildings, etc. are collected in a database. A highly advanced software image-recognition program, the competitor to a CIA-developed program, orders these pictures according to resemblance. The software compares the images in real-time according to formal criteria such as colour, colour shading, and contrast. The software then shows the ordered images to viewers as a film at 12 images per second. When the film reaches the last image, it starts anew, reordering and incorporating any newly-added pictures. This becomes in effect a public film project, whose content is determined by the number and kind of submitted photos. A constantly developing and newly-ordered loop, the film can be seen, as well as newly-influenced, throughout the event.
