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Installation requirements:

8 beamers / 8 dvd players / 16 speakers / 8 projection screens
(minimum seize projection screen: 300 x 300 cm / 118 x 118 inch)

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8 Animations / Duration each animation 00:03:00 / played in a loop.
Each animation has it’s own soundtrack.

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Installation view at MU Eindhoven 03-09 / 02-10-2005

More pictures of the exhibition at MU here…

Quicktime simulation of the installation here…

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Web animations presuppose one-to-one communication. In the ideal situation, the user plays and responds to the animation works on his own familiar computer in his own familiar environment. He decides how long the animation is going to continue and how often an action will be repeated. There’s no-one looking over his shoulder, the user is free to do what he wants, he’s the one in complete control. Via his computer, the user has 24/7 global access to the work.

The visitors of the installation ‘ZOO’ on the other hand, are invited to watch the animations from a suitable distance as if they were exotic ’species’, rarely to behold in real life. A situation quite different from the home situation, therefore. The user becomes a visitor; the intimacy of the familiar home screen has vanished. The visitor is in an environment that is alien to him, he’s never alone and he has no control over the progress of the animations. The public confrontation with human inadequacies makes the experience all the more embarrassing and heartrending. Still, it’s not going to be a passive spectacle. As the animations are projected on an octagon of screens, it will be impossible for the visitor to view all the animations at once. Driven by the feeling that he’s missing out on something, he will walk around the space: what’s happening on the other screens? This feeling of unease will be heightened by the sound supporting the animations. What kind of sound is that, where does it come from?
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Press release from MU exhibition. Read complete txt here…