The piece is controlled by a devantech ultrasonic ranger and a bx24 microcontroller. The microcontroller communicates serially to a standalone application written in MAX/MSP/NATO. I have included the serial patch here, the NATO patch here, and the MAX/MSP patch here.
Currently, there are eight 45 second pieces of video and 8 still images. They are taken from 4 interviews and preedited and processed. The still images are of outdoor details that I associate with the interviews. They do not include any people.
With this project, I am trying to make the audience aware of the power that we unconsciously exercise when we ignore what we see: in this case, panhandlers. I am doing this by facing the audience with the overt reactions and discomfort of other passersby. The audience must stand uncomfortably close to the video in order to see the whole thing, The faces of the speakers are directly in front of them, speaking of an issue that we rarely discuss.
Sasha Harris-Cronin
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