The mobile-lines
Antoine Schmitt, 1999.
Interactive installation.
Computer, videoprojector, videocamera, vision and tracking algorithm, artificial entity algorithm, drawing algorithm.
Installation, designed to insert itself in the reality of a public place.
Designed in 1999, and exhibited for the first time in the Interferences of the Nuits Savoureuses, International Festival of Multimedia Urban Art, curated by the CICV, in Belfort (France), December 14 to 20 2000.
Prizes: First Prize for the outdoor installations in the Nuits Savoureuses 2000.
White autonomous lines live in a large space on the ground. They react to the passers-by, incarnating their near past and future paths. Autonomous and interactive, they play with their movements, anticipating and adapting, confronting them with their own free will.
Les Lignes-mobiles (The mobile-lines) is an interactive installation designed to insert itself in the reality of a public place, and which stems from a simple concept: a videoprojector projects lines on the floor, both according to the passers-by and in an autonomous way, improvised by a computer. These lines concretize, in a signaletic way, links and directions for the passers-by themselves or between them.
The lines are white, minimal, fluid, semi-autonomous, and sensitive to the passers-by. They appear and disappear, cross in arabesques. They choose some passers-by and get attached to them until they leave the projection zone, following them or preceeding them in their movement. They tend to create links between them. Les Lignes-mobiles set up an interaction zone, an interference zone between passers-by chosen at random, or between a passer-by and the line that got attached to him.
Les Lignes-mobiles is an installation designed to be adapted to the dynamic of the installation place: wandering or not, fast or slow, crossing or path, etc.
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