Things that move trigger our attention and curiosity. We immediately perceive them as living matter. Something that does not move from time to time is quickly perceived as dead.
How is our environment shaped? Is it alive, livable, boring? Are cars living organisms? The installation filters out everything that doesn't move. Things that do not move become invisible. Random snapshots are captured by sound and create a new sequence of images
If the embedded file below is not working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0UXeHrX_Uc
Technical Solution
Please find here the patch File:210616_Keep Moving.maxpat
The lower display window shows the entire webcam video. The upper window shows the current snapshot until the next one is taken. For motion tracking, jit.rgb2luma is often used to identify an moving object. This command caught my attention. By jit.unpack and jit.pack the color get changed in and bright yellow for the background and bright red for the moving object. The trigger of the microphone is set very low to take a snapshot. Even a big bite into an apple can set it off.
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