While stepping through the city, the walker will be able to see a visualitzation of the editing process: the choosen media (on the left, as the past), the actual media that is streamed and can be heard through an audio stream on the earphone (the middle bar, as the present) and on the right the potentialities of media that exist in the future...
We normally experience films like a flow, a continuity that passes leaving no traces other than sensorial or intellectual ones. Within the context of this project, the result is the translation of a geometric form (the trajectory) onto a basis of media: visitors do generate a narrative flux in the form of a film which they can watch, but this film can still be manipulated as an object and is linked to a set of data (trajectory, metadata) and of representations of these (mappings, iconographies, etc). One has to walk to generate, touch the iPhone to watch the process taking place, to manipulate the film-object: the more the spectators involve themselves physically and emotionally, the better the experience will be.
To summarize, an image can be taken from the physical nature of particles: the project consists in creating a media chamber (a bubble chamber) upon which a trajectory is projected (beamed particles) which will create a film (an explosion, an image)…
Since november 2009, Nicolas Goy (the software engineer) has completely rewritten the database and the editing engine.
We are working on a new version of the editing engine that will be released begin of april; the iPhone software in a beta stadium will be finished for coming may.
We are currently updating the videos, so there can be some problems with playing the films. Please come back soon, there will be the films calculated with the new editing engine (and passing from flash to html5).