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Reflections: K-dron Reflection: K-dron is my doctoral project created under the supervision of prof. Stanislaw Szymanski in the Cinematography and TV Production Department at The Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland. View video of the installation Reflections: K-dron is an interactive installation based on image analysis and manipulation of live video feed. The images are manipulated according to the program that I wrote in Adobe Flash, which generates an image of the viewer based on a shape called K-dron. The K-dron shape was discovered by Janusz Kapusta in 1985 and its patterns constitute the primary element in the construction of the image, resembling an ever changing mosaic of K-dron patterns forming the mirror image of the viewer. The plasticity of the digital image allows me to create an image-instrument for the viewer to interact with. The word "instrument" takes a rather literal meaning, because each K-dron that creates the image has an embedded sound which is evoked through the collision with additional graphical elements representing traditional musicnotation, the five-lines staff. The movement of the viewer-interactor generates the images and sounds thus stimulating the viewer to interact with the installation and others in the gallery space. Sound in my work always plays very important role and in this case it is elevated to the same level of importance as the image, because viewer-interactor has a direct impact on how it is generated. The sound, which is modeled digitally to mimic the sound of a piano, was created in connection with 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth celebrated in Poland and around the world in 2010. Additional aspect of interaction with the installation comes from tele-presence, which happens during the broadcast of the art-event over the internet or television. The broadcast expands the space of the gallery by the space of all of the viewers that decide to watch and interact with the installation. Remote viewers, by calling a number and pressing 1 or 2 on the phone's keypad, are able to rotate individual lines on the screen thus deconstructing the traditional, linear representation of music notation. The rotation of individual lines creates points of intersection, which evoke sounds when colliding with K-drons that make up the image of the viewer-interactor. The pitch of the sound depends on the location of the sound on the screen, the higher the location the higher the pitch. Reflection: K-dron is my doctoral project created under the supervision of prof. Stanislaw Szymanski in the Cinematography and TV Production Department at The Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland. Many thanks to MegaPhone for providing the technology that turnes phones into controllers. |