LA ROUTE JURA PARIS / workshop

 
 
Interactive installation

Watching the film footage we seldom realize that the transformation of static frames into a film occurs due to frequency oscillation of our brain. Moving images flow into our eyes and immediately go to the “past” in our memory. This is not the case when recording movement using the method of “slitscan”. Single vertical lines – equivalents of the moment of “now” or single frames of film, remains on the screen. By adding one line to the other, they give a visual testimony of passage of time. In front of our eyes “now” turns into the past that continues its existence as visual representation, so it is observable and can be referred to. If so, one can play with the moment of “now!” using time as interactive material. These very special features of the representation of time using “slitscan” caught my attention when designing interactive installation “La route Paris-Jura”. The very topic – centenary of travel of Duchamp, Picabia and Apollinaire from Paris to French Jura required a reference to the time passing, wandering, and above all, not restrained and available for each participant involvement in the spontaneous creative process, best described as electronic DADA.