In this
project for an interactive installation, he was proposing computer logics
as a possibility to think about political differences in Latin America,
countries with important identity and institutional crisis. The question
was: What happens when instead of confrontation between countries there
is fusion, two forms that join together to generate a new one?
This work was based on a white flag artificially flaming in a mast,
that functions as a screen for a computer connected to a specially
developed interaction device. The PC was programmed to emit a beep
and project an image of a random Latin American flag each time it
received a signal from the movement sensors. When somebody crossed
one of the lines painted in the floor, a different random flag was
projected, superposing the last ones by luminance addition. After
six or seven superpositions, the flag was almost white, pure light.
The flag functioned as an inverted prism, the different colors and
shapes transform into a total and even illumination that eliminated
the shades, the vertices and the divisions. The computer traduced
forms and the colors into numbers -bits- that could transform in quick
arithmetical operations and generated new forms: simple light colors
addition translates into complex symbolical multiplication over the
flags of the different nations.
Seconds later, the random sequence begun again. The speed of the sequence
depended on the amount and movement of the public in the room. When
the gallery was empty at night, the flag was fluttering alone in its
mast, without no technology more than the one of the iron and a textile
ready to be loaded of a new sense.
martin
bonadeo