For what is freedom? That one has the will to self-responsibility. That one maintains the distance which separates us. F.W. Nietzsche, In: Twilight of the Idols, 1888 (Walter Kaufmann translation) Crepúsculo dos Ídolos is an environment with five TVs turned to a broadcast TV channel, a webcam and a microphone in front of TVs. When the visitor produces sound next to the microphone, it distorts TVs images in accordance to intensity and duration of sound produced by the visitor. Distortions evolve following some of twilight colors: yellow, orange, red, blue. After passing the blue color, the TV channel image disappears and, in its place, appears the image of the visitor himself with an effect that also varies according to intensity of his voice. While visitor produces sound, its image remains on TV. If visitor stops to produce sound, the TVs return little by little to show the image of the ...
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For what is freedom? That one has the will to self-responsibility. That one maintains the distance which separates us. F.W. Nietzsche, In: Twilight of the Idols, 1888 (Walter Kaufmann translation) Crepúsculo dos Ídolos is an environment with five TVs turned to a broadcast TV channel, a webcam and a microphone in front of TVs. When the visitor produces sound next to the microphone, it distorts TVs images in accordance to intensity and duration of sound produced by the visitor. Distortions evolve following some of twilight colors: yellow, orange, red, blue. After passing the blue color, the TV channel image disappears and, in its place, appears the image of the visitor himself with an effect that also varies according to intensity of his voice. While visitor produces sound, its image remains on TV. If visitor stops to produce sound, the TVs return little by little to show the image of the TV channel again. http://crepusculodosidolos.wordpress.com
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2010
- Submitted to ArtBase: Friday Mar 19th, 2010
- Original Url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhwfD9kvA0
- Permalink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qhwfD9kvA0
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Work Credits:
- Jarbas Jácome, creator
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