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“Memory” Video @ AVAF 2010

Parag K Mital — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 03:04:20 +0000

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Memory @ AVAF 2010 from pkmital on Vimeo.

‘Memory’ is an augmented installation of a neural network by Parag K Mital & Agelos Papadakis.
hand blown glass, galvanized metal chain, projection, cameras; 1.5m x 2.5m x 3m

Ghostly images of faces appear as recorded movie clips within neural-shaped hand-blown glass pieces. As one begins to look at the neurons, they notice the faces as their own, trapped as disparate memories of a neural network.

Filmed and installed for the Athens Video Art Festival in May 2010 in Technopolis, Athens, Greece. The venue is a disused gas factory converted art space.

Also seen at Kinetica Art Fair, Ambika P3, London, UK, 2010; Passing Through Exhibition, James Taylor Gallery, London, UK, 2009; Interact, Lauriston Castle, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.

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Memory

Parag K Mital — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:09:00 +0000

I’ve recently finished up a project in collaboration with a Glass Artist, Agelos Papadakis. We built a structure of 25 glass neurons the size of a face and chainded them together in a 3x3x5 meter sculpture. We had 2 cameras hidden in the piece tracking peoples faces and a projector then creating visualizations of the recorded faces resembling something like a cloud of neurons firing in different patterns. We presented it first in Edinburgh at Lauriston Castle’s Glasshouse, and then at the Passing Through exhibit in the James Taylor Gallery in Hackney: http://jamestaylorgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/2009/03/passing-through.html

It’s a bit tricky trying to film the piece since it uses projection onto glass. Sadly I’m left with only a few images that try to portray what went on.

Here’s the code, http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~pkmital/share/Memory.zip It makes use of the openframeworks library so you will need to be familiar with how to setup an XCode project with the openframeworks library if you plan on using it.

The original idea was to use glass balls so that’s why all the code says glassBalls instead of say glassNeurons. If you manage to get it running, press ‘d’ to see the live video input. As it collects faces, it fills up … Continue reading...

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Gargoyle vs Tormentor

Parag K Mital — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:58:00 +0000

Collaborating with Agelos Papadakis, he had an idea of creating televisions with distorted perspectives and projecting video clips of faces onto them. The idea of this installation focuses on the reaction of the viewer and the liminal experiences of fear and being watched.

Montage of 9 viewers from pkmital on Vimeo.… Continue reading...

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INTERact

Parag K Mital — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:47:00 +0000

If anyone has used Google’s event system, they must know how terrible it is. It’s beyond me why if someone changes a detail such as the time from 7 – 10 p.m. to 6 – 9 p.m., Google then sends out e-mails to all guests saying the “Event is canceled”.

Great, thanks Google.… Continue reading...

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((MEMORY)) Testing (more pictures)

Parag K Mital — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:33:00 +0000

Some close ups of the testing:

Artists interpretation by Varun Cursetji:

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((MEMORY)) Testing

Parag K Mital — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:52:00 +0000

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((MEMORY)) Installation

Parag K Mital — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:40:00 +0000

Working with Agelos Papadakis, this installation will investigate interactivity, agency, and memory within an installation space. Can an art piece evolve and contain the memory of its participants? Is reaction simply a side-effect of art or *the* effect?

More to come… Exhibit in late April.

((MEMORY)) installation on Vimeo.… Continue reading...

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