Public installation of the ongoing project '
Global Picture - Sensor of Human Condition' by Dalibor Martinis and Mihael Giba will be staged on 10th of January on the Railway Station in Ljubljana, Slovenia and in the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana. The installation stays on view till 17th of January, 2011.
Project GLOBAL PICTURE spreads the network of sensors in various cities in Europe in order to bring the present state of humanity to as many people as possible. The changes in that state is communicated to the public via 7 colors. In each city GLOBAL PICTURE inhabits local urban site which has already been established as a location of certain urban significance. The daily changes are dependent on a set of parameters taken from daily online reports on the global economy, stock markets, disasters, health, international relations/conflicts, civil rights, ecology and media. 7 states from bad to excellent are turned into the colors: from blue, turquoise, green, yellow, orange, and red to purple. Every 20 minutes a central software performs keyword-based search on the internet and after analysis of collected data via internet database delivers necessary information regarding current state of GLOBAL PICTURE to on-site software applications. Those software applications then using different LED hardware interfaces are displaying current color.
Software is programmed and driven by Processing. Software is performing web search and depending on amount of positive and negative information it is delivering color information over DMX interface to LED lighting system
Data status: Composition II is the title of the work that is currently on view in Gallery of Fine Arts in Split, Croatia. DSCII is custom software driven animation that visualizes news published in Croatian daily newspapers, collected on newspaper web portals. News are grouped in separate categories like sports, culture & arts, politic & economy, lifestyle & health and presented on visualization as parts of landscape – trees, birds, hills, clouds and flowers. Number of this landscape elements depends on number of news published. Visualization is refreshed every 20 seconds. More info on
www.mihaelgiba.com
