LEBENSRAUM (LIVING SPACE), interactive art installation
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- We’re on the increase - with every passing minute, our planet is home to 150 more of us. One century ago,
there were 2 billion people in the world, but if the forecasts are right the human population will come to almost
10 billion by 2050. Unfortunately, our growth threatens to destroy the very foundations of life on our planet. We
are consuming and destroying nite resources. Many of us are already feeling the eects of this: heat, droughts,
oods and rising sea-levels.
The causes of this development are complex, as are the consequences of the destruction. All around the world,
solutions are being worked on, and a radical reversal of familiar patterns of behaviour will be necessary.
In my work, I want to engage with the phenomenon that, although we have recognised the problem of
overpopulation and the resulting destruction of our environment, this realisation is not usually reected in our
actions.
This is very brilliant. The message is presented really well
Can i ask what is thr messages?
Super talented ❤️❤️xongratss
Amazing artwork
Thank you very much Firology ;)
Outstanding work; just saw it at Ars Electronica.
Thank you!
What a stunning piece! I was looking for something similar with a 'pump' interaction for my thesis and I came across your work. Did you find any research on this kind of 'muscle power' interaction and it's effect on people's attitude that supports this work?
like it!!! AMAZING!!
Thank you very much Migi Wu!
Super chouette !
inspiring !
amazing job
many thanks
What a nightmare! But are dreams only foams?
Great Piece!! I am wondering if this project is a projection or it actually reacts to the pump. Is there programming involved?
Thank you for interested. The head animation is screened on a 55“ display. On the backside of the display a mini-pc and a small raspberry pi computer are attached . The pump is connected with a pressure sensor. The sensor sends the data to the raspberry pi, which converts the data for the pc. On the backside mini-pc is unity-software running. Unity-software and the raspberry pi had to be programmed.
@@svenwindszus amazing work. Could this be programmed using python or there is a specific language for staff like this?
@@BOSClub The UNITY3D software uses C# scripts and the raspberryPi uses python
What’s the concept??
background information:
We’re on the increase - with every passing minute, our planet is home to 150 more of us. One century ago, there were 2 billion people in the world, but if the forecasts are right the human population will come to almost 10 billion by 2050. Unfortunately, our growth threatens to destroy the very foundations of life on our planet. We are consuming and destroying finite resources. Many of us are already feeling the effects of this: heat, droughts, floods and rising sea-levels.
The causes of this development are complex, as are the consequences of the destruction. All around the world, solutions are being worked on, and a radical reversal of familiar patterns of behaviour will be necessary.
concept:
With my "LEBENSRAUM" project, I want to invite each participant to use their own muscle power to control the growth of our species. I have reduced the real conditions we are facing to a form of physical experiment. The problem of overpopulation, the resulting destruction of our living space and the steady rise in sea levels, have been put into a visual context.
Pressing on the pump causes heads to appear. If too many heads are pumped up, the available space expands, but the rising water level problem worsens.
Just a few movements of the pump should make it clear to participants where this experiment is headed. The question is: how do we deal with this responsibility - do we keep pumping and see more and more heads pushed under the water or do we halt the process before this can happen?
In my work, I want to engage with the phenomenon that, although we have recognised the problem of overpopulati- on and the resulting destruction of our environment, this realisation is not usually reflected in our actions. "LEBENSRAUM" renders this contradiction tangible. Each participant unconsciously assumes the role of the entire human race; an individual standing for the collective. By means of his or her actions, the participant gets to determi- ne how much growth is good for our planet.
If all the heads are inflated at the end, the water will almost completely flood the space and the following error message "UNEXPECTED ERROR. RECOVERING LIVING SPACE" will appear for one minute. The participant will see the maximum growth as an unexpected error. Unlike in reality, the programme can renew the required living space.
symbolism:
The pump symbolises the economic and human growth that started to rise exponentially with the introduction of the steam engine in early 19th century. The physical functioning of the compressed gas allows using the air pump to closely mirror those early machines.
The heads stand for the whole for humanity. The chosen number of ten heads represents the critical mass of
10 billion people on Earth. Their ethnicity, skin colour, gender and age were selected in such a way as to represent a cross-section of the world's population. (The order and arrangement of the heads is randomly generated and changes every time).
@@svenwindszus why the name Lebensraum? It has a quite heavy history to it, as you're presumably aware of.
@@sambeard4428 I know what you mean. Yes, this word has a dark past in our German history. We still used that word in different contexts. The reason why I decided to used that word is, that this word consists of two single words "Leben" + "Raum". And that is exactly what it is. You see the heads which represent "Life" = "Leben" and you see the frame of the display which is the border of "Space" = "Raum".
Alternative words would be "Biotop" or "Habitat", but that not really doesn't fit exactly.
hi whats the tech you made it🤣
Hello, I tried to explained my tech on my first answer:
... On the backside of the display a mini-pc and a small raspberry pi computer are attached . The pump is connected with a pressure sensor. The sensor sends the data to the raspberry pi, which converts the data for the pc. On the backside mini-pc is unity-software running. Unity-software and the raspberry pi had to be programmed. The specific language for the Unity-Software is C# and for the raspberry pi is python