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Un altro progetto che riflette sul senso della comunità nell’era dell’ubiquità della comunicazione è Phonetic Faces, un mixer di immagini per luoghi pubblici accessibile via cellulare. I luoghi di passaggio dove la gente sosta in attesa dell’autobus o del treno, vedono il transito di persone sempre diverse che non lasciano traccia della loro presenza. I telefoni cellulari ci permettono di comunicare a prescindere dal luogo in cui ci troviamo. Unendo queste due modalità di presenza/assenza, Phonetic Faces realizza un modo di poter lasciare un segno visibile in questi luoghi, come un graffito metropolitano digitale, per di più interattivo. |
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L’installazione consta di uno schermo con una piccola videocamera, sistemato in uno di questi luoghi pubblici. Quando ci si trova davanti allo schermo, chiamando un apposito numero col cellulare e seguendo le istruzioni, si può creare un collage con le immagini sullo schermo, lasciate da chi è passato prima di noi, oppure si può aggiungere la propria immagine ripresa dalla videocamera, e altri la potranno usare. Il sistema permette a quattro persone di poter chiamare contemporaneamente, e ulteriori sviluppi del progetto prevedono che queste postazioni siano tra loro connesse, in modo da poter condividere le immagini in tutto il mondo.
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Phonetic Faces is an interactive mobile visual installation in public space that allows people to both contribute their image to a shared display and collaborate with others to create a collage of images using their mobile phones. While in front of the installation, visitors call a free 1-890 number which prompts them to choose images to collage together and allows them to take a new picture of themselves to add the archive. The installation allows up to four people to simultaneously call in and chose photographs to add to the evolving collage. The result is a visual composition of visitors over time to the installation. Ideally, the project would be installed in a public space such as a bus stop or another "waiting" point to allow for a constant influx of new images and collages to collect over time. |
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| How can a sense of community amongst visitors be maintained over time? Phonetic Faces is focused on the idea of time-based image capture in public spaces, where the people inhabiting those spaces changes daily. As we become more dependent on mobile devices, our specificity to physical location over physical proximity may begin to deteriorate. Like a sign that's anchored to the street, Phonetic Faces can only exist in a location dependent space where people's action and movements become more important than their immediate environment. Since it's an open system, it's collage feature allows for multiple perspectives to merge into a hybrid portrait of the local community. |  |
Phonetic Faces exists on a screen embedded into the wall of an inhabited public space. A small video camera sits above the screen and is activated by visitors through their mobile phones. When you walk up to the screen, you call a free 1-890 number and a voice guides you through two options: 1) Paint with a picture to add to the animating collage 2) Take a new picture of yourself that others can use in the collage by activating the camera. The system uses VoiceXML (a subset of XML) through Voxpilot and speech recognition to decipher voice input in the form of voice or DTMF tones. Future versions of Phonetic Faces will have a networked component to connect imaging stations situated in public spaces throughout the world. Once a new image is taken it will be sent to the other stations along with information on its origin, time, and location. The project is a hybrid of my projects My_Faces , an autobigraphic image manipulation tool and Musical/Devices , a mobile-phone based, public collaborative music project.
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