Project Number
- 194
Title
- The Multi-Cultural Recycler
Description
- World Wide Web-based art installation contrasting recycled imagery from live camera sources.
Contact
- Amy Alexander
Affiliation
- California Institute of the Arts
Address
- 24700 McBean Parkway
- Valencia, California 91355
- amy@emsh.calarts.edu
WWW
- http://shoko.calarts.edu/~alex/recycler.html
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- With the proliferation of video cameras on the World Wide Web, ordinary people and places instantly become part of the mass culture and are also potentially subjected to cultural recycling. The Multi-Cultural Recycler puts a tongue-in-cheek spin on this phenomenon.
- "When a visitor accesses the Multi-Cultural Recycler, the Recycler selects two or three camera websites at random and captures the live or latest image from their cameras. The Recycler then performs digital image processing on these images to "recycle" them into a new image."
- Besides the unique images produced, visitors can also view the "Recycling Bin" to see the source images and links to their original source websites to learn their "recycled image's" original context.
Sight
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 101 - hypermedia, hypertext
Remarks
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