What shape
does the water has? It is said that the water takes the shape of its container.
With the sight you can access to this container form, but with other senses can
perceive the internal composition of the liquid and its movements. Iceberg is
an interactive sculpture that invites the public to perceive the shape of an
object through touch and hearing, a liquid cube-shaped object. This work aims
the subject of how we perceive with other senses and the shamanic rituals of
initiation related to the expansion of perception.
This
iceberg is made up of two parts, one audible and other tactile. The tactile
part is a water cube, the aural part is white noise and both are connected
through a computer vision algorithm. It invites the public to sink their hand in
the cube and shake it, the action is recorded and tracked in real time by the
computer vision system of the work and the information obtained can move the
sound in space in the same way water does, a fragmented sound in hundred equal
parts that allows to sonorize the movement of the particles of the water cube,
so the public can feel the shape of water through the skin and ear, accessing
information objects have hidden into them.
By sinking
the hand at this iceberg public gains access to a section of reality which can
not be accessed with sight, secret shapes that simultaneously inhabits things
and we can reveal through the other senses, a shamanic initiation to increase
reality.
Technical
sheet
Author:
Jaime Lobato.
Work:
Iceberg.
Technique:
Water, multichannel sound, web cam, computer vision algorithm.
Measures:
100 x 53.5 x 53.5 cms.
Year: 2016.
