"75 wishes" project /after The Fisherman and the Goldfish/ CD-ROM and Multimedia Screening Project |
ventsislav
zankov
"75 wishes" on
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The Fisherman and the Goldfish/ CD-ROM and Multimedia Screening
Project
Presented in the form of a screening
of interactive CD-ROM, the project will attempt to research and
juxtapose the three most coveted wishes of acquaintances and ordinary
people, who chanced to end up in front of the camera. It will be
formally based on the story of The Fisherman and the Goldfish. My main concern within this
project is to what extent people’s wishes are the same, and how
they differ from each other, as well as the possibility to directly
juxtapose people and their reactions by using computer technology.
The specifics of realization
of 75 wishes
raise the question of audibility: the twenty-five people questioned voice
their wishes simultaneously, and that simultaneity makes their wishes impossible
to be heard or understood. In order to grasp what each of them is
saying, the viewer must deliberately choose,
with the help of the computer’s “mouse,” the person they want to hear. That way, however, the viewer can only hear the chosen
person, as the rest of the voices will be automatically disconnected
by this operation. If the viewer does not choose/interfere, the
faces on the screen are left to themselves; talking, moving, alienated,
incomprehensible, and misunderstood…wound up…in an inarticulate,
mutual clamor. They will only “speak” on their
own if there is a viewer willing to hear them.
The possibility of random skipping
from one face to another in order to hear its voice, story, and
wishes, or the opportunity to watch impassively twenty-five people
speaking at the same time, will eliminate the linearity of expression
offered by traditional video, where it is only possible to present
the participants in sequence, thus making the viewer’s presence
purposeless.
what
were these 75 wishes - check them out! Technological
Requirements Computer Multimedia videoprojector
Amplifier with
speakers Screen, wall
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