PEOPLE ON THE FLY BY (COLLECTIVE) SOMMERER / MIGNONNEAU - ADA

Keywords

aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- anamorphic
- animated
- anthropomorph
- assembled
- automated
- autopoietic
- collaborative
- contextual
- cybernetic
- disgusting
- documenting
- duplicated
- dynamic system
- ephemeral
- experimental
- found object
- generative
- gustatory
- hypermediacy
- illusionary
- immaterial
- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
- intervention
- mobile
- modular
- multi-user
- multiple
- narrative
- navigable
- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
- performative
- polysensory
- processual
- projected
- real-time
- remediated
- remixed
- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
- three-dimensional
- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
genre
- Bio Art
  - Genetic Art
  - Transgenic Art
- Database Art
- Digital Activism
- Digital Animation
- Digital Community (Social Network)
- Digital Graphics
- Game Art
- Glitch Art
- Hybrid Art
- Installation
  - augmented reality
  - interactive installation
  - mixed reality
  - performative installation
  - sound installation
  - virtual reality
    - 360° virtual walktrough
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
  - Computer performance
  - Happening
  - multimedia performance
  - sound performance
  - video performance
- robotics
- Telematic Art
subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
  - algorithm
  - anthropology
  - archaeology
  - artificial intelligence
  - astronomy
  - biology
  - botany
  - cartography
  - code
  - combinatorics
  - cyberspace
  - database
  - documentation
  - emergence
  - evidence
  - experiment
  - geography
  - geometry
  - history of science
  - humanities
  - library
  - light
  - machine
  - mathematic
  - medicine
  - microscopy
  - nanotechnology
  - neuroscience
  - philosophy
  - physics
  - psychology
  - Representation of knowledge
  - research
  - science
  - scientific image
  - space
  - statistics
  - stereoscope
- ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
  - allegory
  - animation
  - architecture
  - art history
  - art market
  - artistic invention
  - beauty
  - cinema
  - Concept Art
  - conservation
  - dance
  - expanded cinema
  - fashion
  - gaze
  - grid
  - illusion
  - image
  - literature
  - mask
  - materiality
  - mirror
  - model
  - museum
  - music
  - nude
  - panopticon
  - panorama
  - personification
  - perspective
  - poetry
  - projection
  - representation
  - shadow
  - sketch
  - spectator
  - symbolism
  - theatre
  - Theory
    - complexity
    - media theory
    - modernism
    - postmodernism
    - poststructuralism
    - semiotics
    - simulacrum
  - virtuality
  - visual culture
- BODY AND HUMAN
  - agency
  - anatomy
  - body
  - breathing
  - cybersex
  - cyborg
  - death
  - disease
  - dream
  - embodiment
  - empathy
  - expression
  - eye
  - facial expression
  - fantasy
  - feeling
    - affect
    - emotion
  - gender
  - genetics
  - gesture
  - hand
  - human
  - identity
  - intimacy
  - movement
  - pain
  - perception
  - performativity
  - physiognomy
  - posthuman
  - self awareness
  - senses
  - sexuality
  - skin
  - speech
  - surgery
- HISTORY AND MEMORY
  - ancestor
  - antiquity
  - archive
  - artifacts
  - collective memory
  - colonialism
  - cultural heritage
  - historical site
  - historism
  - history
  - meme
  - memorial
  - modern era
  - nostalgia
  - postcolonialism
  - preservation
  - romanticism
  - teleology
  - tradition
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
  - access
  - advertising
  - Big Data
  - broadcast
  - commerce
  - communication
  - electronic media
  - error message
  - fiction
  - film
  - global village
  - hypertext
  - information
  - intermediality
  - internet
  - language
  - media archaeology
  - open source
  - print media
  - radio
  - search engine
  - social media
  - storytelling
  - telecommunication
  - telephone
  - television
  - video surveillance
  - visualisation
  - writing
- NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
  - agriculture
  - animal
  - anthropocentrism
  - atmosphere
  - catastrophe
  - DNA
  - earth
  - ecosystem/ecology
  - energy
  - environment
  - evolution
  - four elements
  - geology
  - global warming
  - globe
  - landscape
  - magnetism
  - nature
  - ocean
  - outer space
  - physical law
  - plant
  - pollution
  - sustainability
  - vegetation
  - water
  - weather
- POWER AND POLITICS
  - authority
  - banking
  - censorship
  - conspiracy
  - democracy
  - discrimination
  - economy
  - equality
  - geopolitics
  - governance
  - heroism
  - human rights
  - imperialism
  - institution
  - law
  - manipulation
  - market
  - military
  - nationalism
  - patriarchy
  - politics
  - sovereignty
  - surveillance
  - terrorism
  - violence
  - warfare
- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
  - afterlife
  - alchemy
  - bible
  - church
  - creation
  - crucifixion
  - esoterism
  - exodus
  - heretic
  - legend
  - mysticism
  - myth
  - mythological creature
  - mythology
  - paradise
  - religion
    - buddhism
    - christianity
    - islam
    - judaism
  - ritual
  - sacrifice
  - Saint
  - sin
  - spirituality
  - vision
  - worship
- SOCIETY AND CULTURE
  - activism
  - capitalism
    - surveillance-capitalism
  - civilisation
  - community
  - consumption
  - counterculture
  - digital identity
  - diversity
  - ethnicity
  - feminism
  - food
  - globalization
  - individuality
  - information society
  - interculturalism
  - mass
  - mass culture
    - entertainment
    - parody
    - phantasmagoria
    - popular culture
    - spectacle
  - migration
  - minority
  - morality
  - native
  - otherness
  - participation
  - poverty
  - privacy
  - racism
  - territory
  - unemployment
  - urban space
  - voyeurism
  - wealth
  - working class
- TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
  - artificial intelligence
  - artificial life
  - biocomputer
  - blockchain
  - cybernetics
  - development
  - digitization
  - electricity
  - emulation
  - engineering
  - history of technology
  - innovation
  - intelligent environment
  - invention
  - mechanics
  - military technology
  - mobility
  - nonhuman communication
  - optics
  - product design
  - production
  - robot
  - simulation
  - supercomputing
  - technophobia
  - telematics
  - telepresence
Technology
- Display
  - Electronic displays
    - BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
    - CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
    - computer monitor
    - dome
    - Electromechanical Display Device
    - Electronic Paper
    - flashlight
    - Head-up Display
    - Headphones
    - HMD (Head-mounted Display)
    - holography
    - laser
    - light-emitting diode
    - lightbox
    - plasma
    - printer
    - projection screen
    - projector
    - robotic
    - speakers
    - VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
    - VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
  - Non-electronic displays
    - body
    - Book
    - easel painting
    - globe
    - house wall
    - inflatable structure
    - mirror
    - paper
    - sculpture
    - shutter glasses
    - sofa
    - Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
    - table
- Hardware
  - camera
  - computer mouse
  - data glove
  - Joystick
  - MAC
  - Mobile Device
  - multi touchscreen
  - plotter
  - scanner
  - touchscreen
  - Video
  - Virtual Workbench
  - Virtuscope
  - webcam
- Interface
  - Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
  - biometrics
  - Body sensor
    - Body Tracking
    - brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
    - breathing sensor
    - Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
    - Endoscope
    - eye scanner
    - facial recognition system
    - Motion Capture
    - positiontracker
    - retina scanner
    - Speech Recognition
    - step sensor
  - camera recording
  - electromagnetism
  - interactive media
    - Auditory User Interface (AUI)
    - Augmented Reality Interfaces
    - breath based communication
    - Internet of Things (IoT)
    - Ludic Interface
    - MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
    - Multi-Modal Interaction
    - tactile user interfaces
    - Tangible Acoustic Interface
    - Tangible User Interface (TUI)
    - Voice User interface
  - Non-electronic interface
    - bike
    - doll
    - furniture
    - plant
  - Soundgenerating device
    - Audiotape
    - keyboard
    - microphone
    - musical instrument
    - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
    - Speech Recognition
    - syntheziser
    - telephone
    - Theremin
    - turntable
    - voice analysis
    - Voice User Interface (VUI)
  - virtual balance
- Software
  - C++
  - CGI/Perl
  - CSS
  - Global Positioning System (GPS)
  - ISDN
  - Java
  - Linux
  - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  - periscope
  - PHP
  - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
  - robotic interfaces
  - SGI Onyx2
  - softimage
  - software interface
  - Video
  - VRML
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
  - XML

Information

(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau >

»People on the Fly«, 2016 - 2016

Co-Workers & Funding:

Commissioned by K11 Media Facade

http://www.interface.ufg.ac.at/christa-laurent/WORKS/artworks/PeopleOnTheFly/PeopleOnTheFly.html

Cite

Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau - »People on the Fly«”. https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/people-on-the-fly.html (retrieved 2020-26-11). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {(collective) Sommerer / Mignonneau - »People on the Fly«}, url = {https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/people-on-the-fly.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2020-26-11}

Technology

Hardware

Video camera
Outdoor or indoor large screen or projection
Computer

Interface

Video camera
Outdoor or indoor large screen or projection

Software

Thousands of flies follow anything moving from the video image, covering them up entirely in real-time
Flies are ignoring static elements in the video image

Descriptions & Essays

Christa Sommerer 26-11-2020
People on the Fly
Outdoor or Indoor Media Facade Installation
©2016, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Commissioned by K11 Media Facade

For a large scale screen we developed a participatory public artwork where passers-by can see themselves and also be turned into a swarm of flies. A specially developed software detects all moving persons and communicates their data to artificial programmes insects.

When a person moves, within seconds hundreds of flies invade his or her body, but when he or she stands still, the insects fly away. The resulting image scenarios are in constant flux, they construct and deconstruct, and people become visible and disappear again within a swarm of insects.

People on the Fly celebrates the ephemeral moment and the hustle and bustle of everyday life, where only standing still for a short moment makes one see one's own image clearly.

Christa Sommerer: People on the Fly, 26-11-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art

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