1st brief

Overarching intent:

To create a new product using existing technology and to use this product to explore

different contexts so as to find possible functions for it; Finally to culminate these explorations into an installation.

As I am a citizen of this technoculture[1] and I’m born into an environment of

technology- cell phones; cameras; electronics etc, I want create a complex technological form using the existing technology around me.

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[1] Bruce Sterling-Shaping Things

 This product should have the ability to:

• Record a single subject or event from many perspectives simultaneously in the same time
• Record many subjects or events at the same time.

Creativity

In our daily lives there are many a times when we stumble upon beauty. It

can be a thought, a moment, an object or perhaps a small part of a conversation. Sometimes I think that these nuances are what make our lives most interesting. Created material- pictures, films, artworks try to capture this essence. A big part of this project is an attempt to capture a glimpse of that beauty.

This device will create an opportunity for users to document their lives in a

multi-dimensional way. Recording and documenting things spontaneously. 

Mapping

There are invisibilities in our daily lives- things that we don’t see because they

are not significant enough or because we are unaware of them.

For example: We are not aware of how our faces look while we are walking, how our hands move or the movement of our hair.

I want to use this device to map the invisibilities present in our environment.

 

THE NEED?

Perception is not limited- there are no restrictions on what the eye can look at.

One can see many things at once. The eye views things in a 180-degree plane.

The visual translation of perception is the camera. However, the camera is

limited to the frame.  Through this device I am creating another way of seeing that tries to go beyond the frame by using multiple vantage points.

 

 

The process of making a film requires many people and a lot of resources. I want

to create a rough low-tech solution to aid this process of capturing things.

 

Phones have now got cameras in them with editing software’s, and the capability

to produce short films. It seems like the right time to extend this portability to

the different ways in which users can capture footage.

 

Creating an opportunity for spontaneous documentation and recording of thoughts, ideas and situations.

 

The advent of platforms such as www.youtube.com, have made it easier for users to share video content.

 

 

In a wider context of art design & technology development:

ART

New media artists, across the world, have been working with technology to ask

questions, start explorations, create experiences and find answers.

There exists a genre of new media art called ‘Video Art’, which my work falls under.

 

TELEVISION & VIDEO

Multiple cameras have been used to create panoptical scenes in fiction films,

such as in the The Matrix.

Live sports editing, uses multiple cameras to document the events.

Surveillance cameras and cctvs use multiple cameras for security reasons.

Documentary films create content from recording real events.

Intrinsic worth of my project

Lies in being able to take a product that I will create and then use it in a unique manner, exploring different contexts so as to assign different functions to it.