"Discontinuous landscape"

Interactive installation by Fernando Velázquez and Julià Carboneras, 2008

Artemov Festival - commissioned work prize

Summary

"Discontinuous Landscape"is an interactive installation formed by 3 projections, each one projecting 3 videos rendered in real time from the website confluence.org.

The "Confluence" project promotes the collective mapping of the earth surface inviting people to visit and document places of crossing points of meridians and parallels.

Anyone who chooses to visit one of these locations must take photos to over the 4 cardinal points and also have to take a picture of the GPS to show that he really was there. Then, he has to send the images and a short text telling the root to that place to confluence.org database.

To interact with "Discontinuous landscape", first the visitor has to choose one of the 3 screens, then he has to choose a place to be visualized on it, and at last he has to send an SMS with the coordinates of that location and his e-mail to a mobile phone number that is showed in the room (to help people to choose places there is also a Mapamundi in the room).

Like most part of the planet is covered by water, the system has a video rendered with sky photos made by the authors which have the inscription NO PLACE to show in the case that the coordinates chosen coincided with a water location that is not visited yet.

The set of the 3 projections forms an imaginary collective landscape in the exhibition

room and when peoples arrives home they receive an e-mail with the text that was sent to the website for the people that had visited the location that he had chosen.