J. Scriba

media art

DLDscape

The DLDscape is currently my most complex work of [situ art]. Like my projects in airports or railway stations this one shows less of concrete venue but rather a situation: a conference - a gathering of a large crowd linked by common interests and the desire to communicate with each other and the outside world.
To capture this constellation I used an automatic camera recording images of the conference participants, staff, media people etc. as they passed from one of the buildings into another one.

I tried to create a picture of the crowd by re-mapping the serial images into two-dimensional space. The resulting picture currently has no physical form as it would require a high-quality printout of at least a hundred square meters in size to reveal all the detail it contains. While this alternate reality waits for an opportunity of material incarnation feel free to explore the work using the full screen Gigapixel-Viewer (Flash required).

The DLDscape is a virtual space inhabited by about 1000 participants (including one dog) of the DLD-conference 2009.

Use the Gigapixel-Viewer to load a zoomable full-screen version to move into the crowd from bird's-eye view to individual faces.

Although some people met physically inside the installation, most probably never got as close in spacetime as the two-dimensional rendering might suggest.

As people searched for their portrait inside DLDscape posting the results online the virtual space of the synthezised picture became another reality on the Web.