The starting point for this project is a group of residential buildings. Each façade, each plane, is altered by a program that duplicates portions of the image on a random axis. Each time this phenomenon occurs, a sample, this time sound, is played by the program.

The sequences are thus orchestrated in a synchronous manner between the alteration of an image and the triggering of a sound. This process is repeated in a parallel montage between several locations as if a phenomenon were occurring at the same time in different places.

The sequences alternate between different buildings (Hong Kong, San Francisco, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chicago). The alteration continues, this process is irreversible because from a certain point where the programme has used all the sources of images available to it, it will replace the original image with an image that it has produced itself. It is a machine that runs on empty and in which each photograph is exhausted by its own copy.

The habitat is segmented, contracted, until it no longer becomes a reality but a representation. Halfway between a science fiction illustration and a constructivist painting, this experimental animation shows the construction of a painting that never stands still.

 

 Photography sources

Places	Authors	Links
Hong Kong	Annie Spratt	MdijqynYQg8
Unkonwn	Carl Nenzen Loven	mbfile7XE44
Chicago	Chris Quintero	1vRSJP2V9Nw
San Francisco	Daniel Abadia	eQUEEHYmLCE
Hong Kong	Johannes Mändle	JttyHMcXAns
Shanghai	Pete Wright	mT9d7GFl1Zs
Guangzhou	Scarbor Siu	UYG5IUPoWIo
Hong Kong	Timelab Pro	xfDnqMh__UQ