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Abstract
The interactive installation "Pockets Full of Memories" is conceived as a digital archive. The audience contributes to the archive by scanning an object in their possession and describing it through a predefined touchscreen questionnaire. The data is stored in a database that is continuously sorted by the Kohonen self-organizing map algorithm that simulates neural-net behavior. It functions in this case by positioning objects from the database in relation to each other in a 2 dimensional matrix according to similarities defined by the contributors' semantic descriptions. The archive of objects is projected large-scale on the walls of the gallery space showing various visualizations such as the objects positioned in the 2D matrix, their movement over time, and textual descriptions. The audience can also interact with the data online to access descriptions of the objects and to contribute extended comments to the objects from anywhere in the world. The project was realized by an interdisciplinary team in Helsinki, Budapest, Stuttgart, Paris and Santa Barbara. (George Legrady)
Artists / Authors
- George Legrady, Professor of Interactive Media, UC Santa Barbara
Cooperators
- Boris Tissot, Exhibition Curator for the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris)
- Dr. Timo Honkela, Kohonen SOM Self-Organizing Map Integration, University of Art and Design Helsinki
- Timo Koskenniemi , Kohonen SOM Self-Organizing Map Integration, University of Helsinki (MediaLab team)
- Marton Fernezelyi, Scan Station, Database, SOM System Integration, c3 Center for Media and Communication (Budapest)
- Zoltan Szegedy-Maszak, Scan Station, Database, SOM System Integration, c3 Center for Media and Communication (Budapest)
- Martin Grothmaak, Graphic Design & Visual Identity, Projekttriangle Design (Stuttgart)
- Danijela Djokic, Graphic Design & Visual Identity, Projekttriangle Design (Stuttgart)
- Juergen Spaeth, Graphic Design & Visual Identity, Projekttriangle Design (Stuttgart)
- Andreas Engberg, Internet Data Access, System Integration, ATON/Create Research, UC Santa Barbara
- Andi Schlegel , Projection Visualization Design
- Ethan Kaplan, SOM, Data, System Integration
- Dr. Brigitte Steinheider, Questionnaire Design and Data Analysis, Fraunhofer Institute (Stuttgart), University of Oklahoma (Tulsa)
Origination
United States, 2000
Partners / Sponsors
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technology (Montreal, Canada), The College of Letters and Science at the University of California (Santa Barbara, USA), The Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)
Comment
"Pockets Full of Memories" is planned to exist in both the real space of a museum or gallery and the internet. It can be considered as a work in a series dealing with the idea of cultural identities, audience contribution and technological processing of information.
The familiar physical objects that visitors are invited to submit to the database are transferred into a digital archive where the objects can be explored as a kind of visually represented personal memories and identities in a three-dimensional interactive space.
"Interactivity is about creating self-consciousness, or consciousness about one's presence." (George Legrady)
Submission
, Feb 26, 2004
Category
- artistic production
Keywords
- Topics:
- culture mediation |
- representation |
- communication |
- space |
- body |
- media art |
- design |
- databank |
- self organization |
- interactivity
- Formats:
- installation |
- projection |
- interactive |
- internet
- Technology:
- databank |
- neural networks
Additions to Keyword List
- Kohonen Self-Organizing Map |
- Interdisziplinarität |
- Kulturelle Artefakte