»FLAG METAMORPHOSES« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Myriam Thyes; Urban Screens conference at Cornerhouse + media art in public space, Manchester, UK, Oct. 2007
Image: Flag Metamorphoses on temporary LED screen at Cathedral Gardens, with spontaneously reacting audience.
http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net/flag-metamorphos
Keywords
Information
Myriam Thyes >
»FLAG METAMORPHOSES«, 2014 - 2015
Co-Workers & Funding:
http://www.flag-metamorphoses.net/contact.htmlhttp://www.flag-metamorphoses.net
Technology
Installation Requirements / Space
This project can be presented in various ways:Presentation of the website on computer (focus on information)
Installation in exhibition with one large projection: SWF application with menu and mouse (focus on content and structure)
Installation with several looping projections (focus on visual qualities and simultaneitiy)
Software
Flash animation series (often converted to video files for presentation).As long as someone is working with Flash, I'll continue looking for new contributions!
Descriptions & Essays
Myriam Thyes 21-01-2015
FLAG METAMORPHOSES
A participatory art project - a growing series of Flash animations with many authors. Every animation shows a relation, a connection, an interaction between two (or more) countries. Each animation starts with a flag and ends with a different one. The flags are transformed, their shapes and meanings are morphed into other symbols and figures. Each contributing artist creates an animation with flags of his/her own choice and expresses a relation between two (or more) countries in his/her own way.
Flag Metamorphoses is an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidizing and re-mixing diverse national iconographies. This project encourages you to think in images, to understand and express cultural and historical processes and relations without words. Symbols of identities turn into elements of dialogues. - You too can contribute!
Myriam Thyes: FLAG METAMORPHOSES, 21-01-2015, in: Archive of Digital Art FLAG METAMORPHOSES
A participatory art project - a growing series of Flash animations with many authors. Every animation shows a relation, a connection, an interaction between two (or more) countries. Each animation starts with a flag and ends with a different one. The flags are transformed, their shapes and meanings are morphed into other symbols and figures. Each contributing artist creates an animation with flags of his/her own choice and expresses a relation between two (or more) countries in his/her own way.
Flag Metamorphoses is an exploration into the meaning of imagery on flags, aiming to create interrelated associations through questioning, reassessing, fluidizing and re-mixing diverse national iconographies. This project encourages you to think in images, to understand and express cultural and historical processes and relations without words. Symbols of identities turn into elements of dialogues. - You too can contribute!
Literature
Schreuder, Catrien, ed. Pixels and Places – Video Art in Public Space. Vol.ISBN 978-90-5662-738-6. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2010.
Wells, Paul and Johnny Hardstaff, ed. Re-Imagining Animation
(Animation Academy, Loughborough University, UK). Vol.ISBN 9782940373697. 1 th ed.Lausanne: AVA Publishing SA, 2008.
Exhibitions & Events
2010
Conferences:
2008
Festival :