Florian Thalhofer, Mahmoud  Hamdy


[7sons]

Eine nonlineare Dokumentation von Florian Thalhofer and Mahmoud Hamdy


Maher, one of the seven sons of Shike Suellim. [link 01]

Maher, one of the seven sons of Shike Suellim.

Technik

Technische Beschreibung

[7sons] is a Media Installation

[7sons] was originally designed as an interactive video-installation for two screens. It was shown the first time in Cairo in October, 2003.

[7sons] is a CD-ROM

There is a CD-ROM version of [7sons] available. It runs on PC and Mac.
To get a copy of the [7sons]-CD-Rom please send an E-mail.

[7sons] is an Internet-project

You can also see [7sons] on the Internet. If you have a fast Internet-connection go to www.7sons.com to see this streaming video project.

Hardware / Software

[7sons] was made with the [korsakow-system]. An easy to use software that is being developed by Florian Thalhofer and Prof Willem Velthoven in cooperation with the University of the Arts, Berlin.
http://www.korsakow.org



Technical requirements

For the installation:
2 Apple Macintosh G4 Computer, OSX, 30GB HD
2 video-beams
Sound

For the web-version:
Shockwave, Quicktime, fast internet-connection

For the CD-ROM version:
PC or Mac, Quicktime

  • › digital sparks Stipendien [link 02]

» http://www.7sons.com [link 03]

  • › 4 min documentation [10 MB ] [link 04]
  • › 5:30 min radio-feature by Justus Hermann (in German language) [8 MB ] [link 05]
  • › Shike Suellim talks to his youngest son [JPEG | 51 KB ] [link 06]
  • › A visitor of the first exhibition in Cairo [JPEG | 29 KB ] [link 07]