new-aesthetic: Last month I was kindly invited by Laboratoire Paragraphe, Université PARIS 8, to make a live performance of mine called Deriva (Catalan word for “drifting”). The action began with a social situation in which a group of people gathered in a public space and spent time together talking, laughing and filling up a bunch of party balloons with helium. After a while, I took a smartphone, turned on its GPS and activated an ordinary live audio/video streaming application. When we had about a hundred helium filled balloons, I attached the smartphone to them and let it go, up in the sky, out of my control.  After we lost visual contact with them, we walked into a classroom, we sat in front of a computer, opened a web browser and followed the live streaming of the drifting smartphone as well as its trace on a map. After we lost this virtual contact (probably due to restrictions of my prepaid data sim card), I manipulated the resulting video file simply by inverting the frame order, and here is the result:  http://deriva.tv  Deriva unmanned aerial technological situationism

new-aesthetic:

Last month I was kindly invited by Laboratoire Paragraphe, Université PARIS 8, to make a live performance of mine called Deriva (Catalan word for “drifting”). The action began with a social situation in which a group of people gathered in a public space and spent time together talking, laughing and filling up a bunch of party balloons with helium. After a while, I took a smartphone, turned on its GPS and activated an ordinary live audio/video streaming application. When we had about a hundred helium filled balloons, I attached the smartphone to them and let it go, up in the sky, out of my control. 

After we lost visual contact with them, we walked into a classroom, we sat in front of a computer, opened a web browser and followed the live streaming of the drifting smartphone as well as its trace on a map. After we lost this virtual contact (probably due to restrictions of my prepaid data sim card), I manipulated the resulting video file simply by inverting the frame order, and here is the result:  http://deriva.tv 

Deriva

unmanned aerial technological situationism

Source: deriva.tv
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