Stochastic Principle
Space/ Time/ Probability
Joaquín Fargas
Exhibition Recorridos
Maimonides University
Recoleta Cultural Center
“I looked for you in time and I didn´t find you, I tried on space and you weren´t
there.”
So simple yet so complex is the need to cross space and time for a real encounter
to occur, numberless factors are involved in it. The probability, randomness or
even providence, play a major role.
Furthermore, diverse sciences such as physics, mathematics and other disciplines
try to explain these behaviors through possible laws and theories that, while having
important practical utility, are far from being absolute. It is at this point that
unknown ways of interaction underlie. Thinking life as a stochastic process allows
us to infer and speculate about it.
New technologies have extended the formats and possibilities, the devices and
communications mechanisms allow us other types of meetings, like virtual
encounters. Our life depends on coincidences, in our nature underlies the need to
meet with others, to share and be part of moments that transcend our lives.
TECHNNICAL DESCRIPTION
Stochastic Principle is a specific interactive multimedia installation. This artwork
can be addressed in three different technological levels:
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3D Screen and projection
On a 3D screen an image of the neighborhood is projected. In the image it is
indicated different places where several encounters were recorded.
To the side there are 6 plexiglass semi spheres with speakers and sensors that
detect the presence of the viewer making the audios of the encounters to start
playing.
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QR codes linked to the videos
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Argumented Reality
The work uses the application Layar which enables the visualization of the videos
of the encounters when you approach and reach the original place where they
were recorded. In this way the space and time are extended through technology
and the exhibition area is expanded to the public space.
This application works for phones and smart devices. For its operation is
necessary to download the application. Once ready, the viewer can walk through
the neighborhood searching the points marked on the map of the application. Once
found a point, the corresponding video is activated.
For the Recorridos exhibition there were 25 different encounters recorded on video
and audio in Recoleta neighborhood.
IMAGES
Stochastic Principle, Recorridos, Centro Cultural Recoleta
Stochastic Principle, Recorridos, Centro Cultural Recoleta
Interactive animations
QR Links to videos: