Translation
Interactive installation
Stefano D'Alessio | Martina Menegon
2013
Interactive installation
Stefano D'Alessio | Martina Menegon
2013
Every translation creates a subtle change of the original message.
The work investigates the traslation of a real image into a possible representation of it, using the sound as main media.
The environment’s image is traslated into its sound representation and brought in the environment itself.
By inverting the previous process, the sound is translated into an image that has whithin itself the interferences of the original environment. This creates a visual representation in which those interferences are additional informations of the space, its sound characteristics.
The final result is an iper-image that contains visual and sound informations.
The installation is composed of a camera, a computer, two video monitors, a speaker and a microphone.
The camera is looking at the environment and the video image repeatedly scanned from top to bottom, every scanned row of pixels is immediately translated in to sound and outputted to the speaker.
The sound is then captured by a microphone and retranslated in to video, reversing the previous process. The result is shown on the second video.
