03:42:58 – Preliminary Work in Progress Report


We are all connected. 

Such idea is a collective consciousness in modern society. In the age of pandemic, it has revived in our everyday discourse. We rely on the connectivity of the online space, and we miss the interconnected real world. This project is to mark the connectedness of people in actual space visually and aurally, to observe and to understand the entanglements between humans that can be traced in an ordinary day at an ordinary place.

The project starts with engaging the services of IP camera. We believe that those live videos captured by cameras set up everywhere across the globe represent a contemporary world view: we are simultaneously watching and being watched — one manifestation of the connectedness in a disparate world. 

03:42:58 could be a random moment, but it could also be the time stamp of a particular incident. We recorded hours of streaming video materials around the world, and identified special moments in the mundane daily routine before or during the pandemic, indoor or outside on the street. Using our custom software we analyse the clips to make visible and audible the social intertwining of people.

Technically speaking, the project adopts machine learning model PoseNet to estimate realtime human poses in a video, and then constructs a dynamic web to wrap up all the detected people as a way to visualise the connectedness. The number of people in the frame and the distance between them are taken as variables deciding the sound to be generated.

In the future development of this project, we will understand further the social behavioural patterns exhibited unconsciously in daily contact (one explicit example is the 2-meter social distancing rule imposed in the current situation), and refine our mapping between movement and visualisation/generated sound. We will also challenge the roles of observer/observed in a more interactive settings.

Doris Deng via Interactive Architecture Lab https://bit.ly/3bN00gy

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