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In the work Doves (1999) of the German artist Ursula Damm, in particularly the planned installation Überflug - Kunst am Bau Projekt für den Campus der BTU Cottbus made 1999 visualizes traces of birds. The main idea of this project is to install Dovecotes (a two-storied tower) in the garden of the Campus of the Brandenburgischen Universität in Cottbus. In the middle of Dovecotes was planned to sink a virtual well, which would have a rectangular shape and would be made of bricks. The well, which would be about four meters deep in the earth, should contain a video of the sky instead of the water. Installed cameras would track the flights of doves and the traces would be visualized live in the well.
According to the concept of the work of Damm, a specific software would fix the position of doves and would visualize their flights with lines. A chaotic structure of lines would appear as visual result of the tracked paths. The structure of the visual result is optically staying in opposite to the rectangular arranged architectural project of the well and its surrounding area. The motif of bird, in particularly the motif of doves has been incorporated through the technology in architectural realization. According to Damm the structure of these Bewegungsbahnen soll ein modellhaftes Bild des Zusammenlebens der Tiere aufzeigen und bietet Gelegenheit, das menschliche Verhalten mit ihnen zu vergleichen (Ursula Damm, from http://www.virtualart.at/common/viewWork.do?id=748). The interaction here, which is a permanent visualization of live data, is restricted as an external interaction. External data, data created by flying birds, are being visualized and let various results emerge.
(Penesta Dika)
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