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Drive-By
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Simultaneous
drive-by projection performances:
1. New York
2. Dublin, Ireland.
Two moving cars send each other a live internet video feed
of their surroundings while simultaneously projecting the
feed coming from the other. The streets/buildings of Dublin
would be mapped onto the streets /buildings of New York
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version of "Drive-By" consists of two simultaneous
drive-by projection performances, one in New York, USA,
and one in Dublin, Ireland. Using live video-capturing technology
and mobile internet connections, camera-persons in each
roving car will capture and transmit video of the urban
landscape recorded through the front passenger window. These
live video feeds will be received by the rear seat passenger
in the other car (in the other country) and projected out
of the rear passenger window onto the landscape that had
just been transmitted by the camera-person in that car.
Essentially each car will send the other video feed of its
surroundings while simultaneously projecting the feed coming
from the other. The streets/images of Dublin would be mapped
onto the streets/ buildings of New York, and New York similarly
onto Dublin. It would be a fleeting portal through cyberspace
linking the two cities,extending cyberspace into reality.
On a small scale and for a split second aspects of each
city are interchanged; the part being projected onto is
somewhat obscured by the projection while the projected
image of it in the other city is readable (provided it has
something screen-like to hit). |
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Drive-By variations |
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an extension of the Brooklyn performance, suitable for execution
anywhere there is a continuous wall/screen. The idea involves
hiring enough cars, generators, video decks and projectors
to completely surround the block. In this case the video
could have somewhat of a narrative: it could be read linearly
because each car would project the same video but with a
slight time lag so that a person viewing from a fixed point
would see each progressive segment of the video as the next
car passes by. If there were enough cars etc. to fill the
wall completely, no lag would be necessary. Below: a modest
and an extreme version of a mobile projector for mounting
on a flatbed truck; these versions give the artist complete
flexibility as to where he projects the image. Both versions
could also work well centered in an enclosed space or room. |
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ideas include mounting the video projector components down
the barrel of a rented armored tank, a bazooka, etc., etc. |
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