Thursday, November 8, 2012

Electric Meters / Backyard Stories


The work uses electric meters installed in building blocks whose blinking lights
represent the visualization of family’s activity and the dynamics of the neighbourhood.
The main idea of the project is to transform this visual information
into aural signal and as a result to get a dynamic sound rhythm the melody of
which depends on how intensively a family uses electricity.

The transformation of visual information into sound happens in the processor
that feeds on information from camera facing the electric meters. The signal is
then fed back to the amplifiers that are attached to the meter. Along with the
sound, the observer will see the video of working meters at the same instance
through the projection of their flashing forms.

Public art project. 2012. Batumi, Georgia.