Nineteen Eighty-Four," is an interactive display that shows house address numbers extracted from Google Street View images. The numbers have an immense variety of fonts, colors, textures and styles, as they were scanned by Google from the front doors of buildings from all over the World.
Rafael’s main interest is in creating platform platforms for public participation, by perverting technologies such as robotics, computerized surveillance or telematic networks.
Simple Harmonic Motion #12 for 16 Percussionists at RNCM
This performance is a ritualistic ode to chaos and order, inspired by the collisions between man and machine; the harmonies, tensions and conflicts between science, technology, culture, tradition and religion. The human performers are controlled by a central computer. Each performer receives individual cues via in-ear monitors, and they do the best they can to act out the commands they receive — when to step forward and become active, when to hit, when to step back and become inactive etc. The individual performers don’t need to be aware of the ‘bigger’ picture, i.e. the composition, the show. They individually execute their own cues, and perform very simple, tedious, monotonous tasks. Each performer hits his/her own drum at fixed time intervals producing a sound and triggering a light. However, collectively they are a complex creature, controlled by the machine, playing out the complex audio-visual composition, drifting in and out of sync, shifting between order and chaos and back.
DataCafe.biz is an installation that allows a person to transact a single piece of their personal data in exchange for a homemade cookie. By making this transaction explicit for the user we highlight the value of personal data and question how the human is considered in a data driven society.
FLOW: Immersive digital waves to visualize nature
The idea is to give enough intelligence and randomness to the system so the visuals becomes organic and unpredictable. The last few years I have been mainly focusing on experimenting with sound and visuals. This project was an opportunity to expand my field of research on adding real time data to transform nature data into a poetic interpretation. Mirroring the relationship between nature and art to reconsiders the implications of human presence in the natural world.
Sensible Data: Fun in exchange for personal data
Sensible Data by Martin Hertig is an installation that asks what personal data is worth to you. Using a photo of you and an email, it gives you a self-portrait sketch and guess at your mood, age, gender, and beauty based on your words. In the last step, the user presses a button for a nice stamp. There’s a catch though.
This project allowed me to explore the issues of ‘confidence’ surrounding data collection systems: fun in exchange for personal data. After having completed the playful process, the user receives also an email from the installation, sending him all the data of a previous user (fingerprint, photo and email) that matches based on an absurd criteria (The amount of lines of the portrait).
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