falling

real-time 12-channels video installation

dimensions variable

2014

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@ National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

There is a Multi-Screens Display in National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts originally, which consists of 12 screens. I wrote an algorithm to produce images of a screen that appeared to be falling randomly. Most of the time, the blue display looks like doesn’t have any image input. When the screen suddenly begins to fall, you can hear a cartoon style sound effect of falling. You can imagine the screen in continued free fall accompanied by the sound effect, when the footage of the falling screen exceeds the display. The sound completes that mental picture, until finally the screen is heard to make impact with the ground and then shatter. After a moment the fallen screen quietly resurfaces, whole and in its original position, and the process repeats.

 

國立台灣美術館原本就有一個由12個螢幕所組成的電視牆。我寫了一個程式,讓單個螢幕不時地產生看似墜落的錯覺。大部份的時候,藍色螢幕看似沒有接上任何的影像訊號。當螢幕突然開始墜落的同時你會聽到卡通般的墜落音效。而當螢幕墜落的畫面超出電視牆的範圍時,你可以藉由聲音繼續完成墜落的想像,直到最後聽見螢幕撞擊地面然後破碎的聲音。稍後,墜落的螢幕又會悄悄地再次浮現在其原本的位置上,週而復始。