VISP–ENGINE
Motion sensor, humidity sensor, thermometer, light sensor, shock sensors, piezo, microphone, audio interface, Arduinos, Touch Designer Script, Alienware PC, PC fan, LEDs, power supply, resistors, stranded wires, solder, copper tape, pool tubing,
3D printed end fittings, hose clamps, screen
2022
2022
Exhibition view at Drogerie Braunschweig︎︎︎
“VisP-Engine” - short for “Visual Poetry Engine” - is a digital semi-brain programmed in TouchDesigner and C++ for Arduino.
While the name refers to the ever lasting approximation to the indescribable through the language of imagery, it also links to the disembodied mythical figure of the same name, Wisp or will-o'-the-wisp, known from English folklore and video games. VisP uses a broad array of sensors, monitoring and analyzing its environment and interactions with viewers to simulate feelings, which it then communicates via an ever changing generative collage of imagery taken from the archive of the collective.
While VisP itself is capable to remember past states and thus gets influenced in its mood, viewers can feed their own images into the archive to enhance its expressiveness and grow the memory of the system.
While the name refers to the ever lasting approximation to the indescribable through the language of imagery, it also links to the disembodied mythical figure of the same name, Wisp or will-o'-the-wisp, known from English folklore and video games. VisP uses a broad array of sensors, monitoring and analyzing its environment and interactions with viewers to simulate feelings, which it then communicates via an ever changing generative collage of imagery taken from the archive of the collective.
While VisP itself is capable to remember past states and thus gets influenced in its mood, viewers can feed their own images into the archive to enhance its expressiveness and grow the memory of the system.
Being responsive towards environmental factors such as light level and temperature/humidity, VisP is as well receptive towards the presence and interaction of humans, by movement, touch and speech, entering and leaving. Meeting VisP therefore exposes the audience to a set of social rules that have to be experienced and understood. Its poetic language needs to be read and interpreted and one's own actions matter towards the simulation of feelings, now and in the future.
You can submit your images for further development of VisP–Engine to following adress: visp@unit404.net︎︎︎
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Fotography: Swetlana König, Johanna Spieker
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