sky-pee (study 2)

Michel Roth (with Julian)

Description

After many weeks of video conferencing with screen sharing during the Corona lockdown, I wondered what happens when two computers on a table directly opposite each other are doubly connected via two providers (skype and jitsi), each partially sharing their screen and filming the other screen simultaneously. A further level is created by the fact that the screens mirror bright elements of their surroundings. These emergent feedback loops turn out to build a highly sensitive system that can be influenced astonishingly with the smallest changes. In this example video, the angles of the two screens are sometimes slightly changed, beams of light (played by my son) are injected into the system and, especially by a very simple trick, strong color changes can be caused: For this, different colored pens were moved in front of the cameras, whose color track was strongly stabilized and amplified by the loops.

This study was intended to be mainly visual, but some well audible audio feedbacks and reverberations exemplify that the system could be additionally fed with acoustic inputs.