Non traditional material realities

"Long lives the new video flesh" is a project of ours dating back from 2004. It describes a system of a dynamic and interactive environment taking inspiration in the 1983 film by David Cronenberg entitled "Videodrome". The movie thereby provides a metaphor for proposing an embodied interface merging video from a physical realm into digital form in real time through an "emotion detector". The main challenge is to detect emotional states of the physical reality and translate them into the digital dimension in real time. The main objective of the project is to test possibilities to turn it into an emotive mutable and permanent membrane for an architectural surface in a near future. This experiment also seeks out to reflect on the growing interest in integrating media elements into architecture and how these new emerging principles are creating non traditional material-realities. With our experiment we want to create digital systems that are extended into social space creating the potential for architecture of reciprocity, reacting to and with the activity and emotions of people. And demonstrate a potential means of achieving a more spatial and temporal interactivity.