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"Stanze" is composed by a video-camera and a back-projected screen located in a void room. The camera is located at the top center of the screen. The observer has freedom to move around the room and several observers can interact with the artwork. The images coming from the video-camera are sent to a computer and elaborated by a program which is able to analyze the scene, to detect the movements and to codify they in terms of action on the image and to play sounds connected with the movements of the observer.
On the screen the artists superimpose predefined images with that ones of the observers extracted by the image coming from the camera. The predefined images represent a path between a sequence of rooms in a farm house where the artists reproduce painted scenes (and elaborated by digital way) with the authors and their symbols.
The real images of the observer, detected by the camera are separated by the background and elaborated in real time in term of the colors. Finally they are inserted in the virtual environments (the imaginary internal rooms) and projected on the screen. The gestures achieved by the observers cause the progressive disappearance of a room and the passage to the subsequent room.
The sounds associated to the images and to the observer movements are synthesized in real time. The sound timbres (instruments) change in relation to the room and to the zone of the image excited by the movement of the observer. The note and duration are completely controlled by the observer movements which, through the interaction, realizes the composing and executing experience of a musical sequence. The artwork manifest itself to the observer movement and it reproduces always new aspects as the result of the creativity of the achieved gestures. In this sense the artwork realize the fusion between the artist creativity and the observer one and it takes energy from this meeting.
The natural gesture is transferred in a musical and visual effect, but this effects strongly influence the movement. So, the feedback is transferred in the perception of the interacting actor who tends to losses the consciousness to drive the installation itself (after a while it is hard to him to understand if he drives or follows the sound/images generation).
Finally the images which compose the virtual scenes are realized through the fusion of two different artistic styles (acrylic paintings and digital compositions). The painting is the basic matter for the digital interventions. The experimentation of this synthesis and the fusion in the video and sound media is one of the basic themes of this installation. The driving idea is to think to the multimediality not as - the contemporary presence of different media - but as - a strict connection between the dynamics of different media - up to establish causality link between action achieved on a media and reaction induced on the other media.
(source: www.plancton.com)
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