Breathing City

Breathing City is a video and sound installation comprising of 4 TV screens and surround sound system. The video screens display an 8 minute cycle depicting urban surroundings, captured by computer controlled robotic cameras, accompanied by a musical composition for 4 breathing voices edited for surround sound. The multitude of elements produces a contrast of unity and multiplicity: the 4 voices unite into a single enfolding sound; the four screens show a single object in different moments in time and from different perspectives, so that the singular disintegrates into a multiplicity. However, the manipulation is performed in temporal succession avoiding repetitiveness. The robotic camera movement contrasts with the human motion, opposing the animate with the inanimate, the city life and the living city.

- Les Intranquilles Festival #6, Les Subsistances, Lyon (15. - 17. Juni 2007)

- nama.Tre.ba 3, Trebinje, Bosna i Herzegovina (24.09 - 26.09.09, Screening)

- Kunstfilmtag 09, Malkasten Düsseldorf (19.12.09)

Kunstfilmtag 09, Foto: Susanne Fasbender

A robotic surveillance camera was installed in public space (2007, Lyon, Hotel de ville) and its custom parameters as pan, tilt, zoom, iris... (normally used with motion-tracking algorithms or remote control) were controlled in extra developed software with predefined autonomous sequences of motion).
These sequenques were created after a purely aesthetical consideratiom, following a musical score for 4 "breathing voices" (Music: Elad Shniderman)for an arrangement of 4 screens in a row. The surveillance camera was no longer functional, but became autonomous.
Neither Video nor Audio were edited afterwards.

In 2008 I did a new version of the installation in Barcelona.

Barcelona TV 2008