{"id":25,"date":"2009-05-01T21:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T04:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2016-10-03T13:54:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T20:54:05","slug":"recollector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"(re)collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/4450833\" width=\"640\" height=\"490\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"left\" cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Commission:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Enter_ Festival, Cambridge, UK<\/tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Exhibition:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>The Junction, Cambridge, UK 24th &#8211; 27th April, 2007; 911 Media Center, Seattle USA 12th September &#8211; 31st October, 2008<\/tr>\n<td><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Computers, cameras, electronics, projector<\/tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Julio Cortazar\u2019s short story \u2018Las Babas del Diablo\u2019 involves a photographer who witnesses a young man and a woman together in a park. It explores the way in which the camera selectively interprets reality. People become characters, places become locations, everyday objects become storytelling devices.<\/p>\n<p>Standing outside the camera\u2019s frame, observing the scene, we can directly compare reality with its image. If we step into the frame of the image, we transition from subject to object and become part of the story. To then see that image is to witness the only part of reality that we cannot experience first-hand: ourselves acting as an object in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(re)collector<\/strong> is a public art installation that generates films by using Cortazar\u2019s story as a template. A network of cameras is installed around the city, programmed to recognize \u2018cinematic behaviors\u2019 corresponding to sequences in \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blowup\" target=\"blank\">Blow Up<\/a>\u2019, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelangelo_Antonioni\" target=\"blank\">Michelangelo Antonioni<\/a>\u2019s film adaptation of Cortazar\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>Each day, computer vision software analyzes the captured footage from the cameras. The software then reorganizes it into a narrative sequence, based upon matches to lines from Cortazar\u2019s original text. These films (samples below), generated according to the story\u2019s logic, are then projected back into the city center.<\/p>\n<p>As new footage is captured by the cameras, it replaces and juxtaposes the existing narrative sequences. The story mutates, becoming retold each day, altering the context of people\u2019s actions. Gradually, people in the city began to modify their behavior in order to regain control of their image, blurring the boundaries between performance\/reality, subject\/object, observer\/observed.<\/tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Credits:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>With thanks to DXARTS, Eli Shechtman, Noel Paul, Allison Kudla, Spherico<\/tr>\n<td valign = \"top\"><strong>Technical:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>This project used an algorithm developed by Eli Shechtman, called Space-time behavioral correlation. Using a series of templates of specific behaviors it can detect when people replicate specific actions &#8211; walking, running, etc. Cameras would record video clips whenever movement was detected, and the clips would be tagged for behaviors. <em>Blow Up<\/em> was split up according to its edits and each clip was manually tagged according to behaviors and locations. The text from Cortazar&#8217;s short story was also tagged for behaviors and locations, and then a Python script compared all tags and generated an xml file that was imported into Final Cut Pro, where the final video was then generated.<\/tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong>Reviews\/News:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/downloads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hansen.pdf');\"  href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Hansen.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Mark B. N. Hansen, &#8220;From Fixed to Fluid&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=537\">Aesthetica<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=544\">ArtWeek<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=638\">ChapmanChapman<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=554\">We Make Money Not Art<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=607\">Digital Arts Online<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=566\">BBC News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=594\">Saatchi Gallery<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?page_id=586\">Cambridge Evening News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=837\">Screening at Olympia Film Society<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=418\">Exhibition at 911 Media Center<\/a><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>IMAGES:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco_install1.jpg\" class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-9Y8jkWJs\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Click to enlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco_install1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco_flyer640.jpg\" class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-9Y8jkWJs\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-57 alignleft\" title=\"reco_flyer\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco_flyer640-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"reco_flyer\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco_screen.jpg\" class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-9Y8jkWJs\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-35 alignleft\" title=\"coupe_recollector2\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco_screen-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"coupe_recollector2\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco31.jpg\" class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-9Y8jkWJs\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-130 alignleft\" title=\"reco3\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/reco31-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"reco3\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>VIDEOS:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4455436?width=640&amp;height=480\n\" rel=\"wp-video-lightbox\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\nhttp:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/title-150x150.png\"\nalt=\"(re)collector day one\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4452826?width=640&amp;height=480\n\" rel=\"wp-video-lightbox\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\nhttp:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/title1-150x150.png\"\nalt=\"(re)collector day two\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4452791?width=640&amp;height=480\n\" rel=\"wp-video-lightbox\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\nhttp:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/title2-150x150.png\"\nalt=\"(re)collector day three\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/4455491?width=640&amp;height=480\n\" rel=\"wp-video-lightbox\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\nhttp:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/title3-150x150.png\"\nalt=\"(re)collector day four\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--more--><highslide image=\"null\" thumbnail=\"null\" altdesc=\"null\" captiontext=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/?p=25\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/jamescoupe.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" class=\"aligncenter wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>Public artwork that automatically generated films using &#8220;cinematic moments&#8221; 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