Embedding a sensory data retrieval system in a movement-sensitive space and a surround sound system
Insook Choi, Geoffrey Zheng, Ken Chen · University of Michigan Library Repository · 2000
Voices in Ruins (ViR) is the most recent in a series of interactive audio media installations constructed for gallery settings (Brothers 2000), (Cohen 2000).These installations embed a sensory data retrieval system in a mediated space that measures unencumbered human movement.Movement is translated into control signals for sound synthesis, spatial simulation and diffusion.Computer vision technology mediates this interface, gathering and evaluating changes in physical space, and communicating the data to synthesis engines, databases, and the composed environment.The artistic goal is to bring visitors' attention to their own acts of disposition towards a displayed work in an instrumented space, from roles as distant observers to intimate observers.