1st Assignment: Algorithmic Portraiture

An attempt to make the multilayered reality of the digital world visible.

The installation consists of two laptops each facing the same projection surface from opposite sites. Every computer is installed in a home desk setting, but connected to a projector and speakers. The laptops are connected via skype. The screens of the computers show an example of a digital encounter, while the projection surface display the skype based camera views in an overlapping manner. The spectator is invited to experience the multilayers of the installation. His image and movements become part of the experience itself. The soundscape is a mixture of literature based research and the live developing noises through the spectators interactions oscillating via skype.