F[OL]LOW machine (IT)
A concept by Ruben Coen Cagli in collaboration with Malloc() : Laura Bardier (Uruguay), Stefano Perna (Italy), Antonio Riccio (Italy)
Presentation:
Kiasma seminar room // Fri 31 March 15:00 // free entrance
people.na.infn.it/~rcoen/portfolio2005/portfolio2005_follow.html
Can a wall perceive what is going on all around? Can it keep a memory? Can it respond somehow? F[OL]LOW machine 1.2 will make the wall “intelligent” - a visual memory of collective processes - by endowing it with a machine-vision apparatus.
F[OL]LOW machine 1.2 is an interactive installation, which tries to represent the way people flow through the public site - the square, the metro stop, the parking lot, the waiting room - and opens up to a playful and aesthetic experience of the public surface - the wall. It visualizes thin chromatic traces on the wall, which are generated in real time, to reproduce the paths people follow when passing in the public site.
F[OL]LOW machine is the name of a project for a Creative Ambient module, rather than for a single interactive installation.