wersja 360 VR / 360 VR version
wersja 360 VR / 360 VR version
WITHHELD BREATH
We
hold our breath in fear when inhaling and exhaling becomes dangerous.
In today's world, we cannot breathe freely, we have limited the
possibility of a normal life for the common good. Connected by the
Internet, we can still communicate and see each other. The pandemic
is a great trial and a lesson in coexistence. Now, more than ever ,we
realize that everything and everyone is interconnected,
interdependent and responsible for the entire planet.
The earth
has held its breath, we feel it painfully, but for most of the plant
and animal worlds nothing has changed. What is our life like today,
in different places on Earth? How does holding our breath affect our
activities? What are our impressions when we see places where the
energy has changed so much? What emotions arise and what are the
conclusions?
Thanks to web cameras, we can keep an eye on the
state of the world. We can visit places known to us, but also places
that we will never reach. Do we want everything to return to the
previous order, which was the cause of the present catastrophe? How
will we live, what will we change? We hold our breath knowing it
might take a long time to breathe in or out again.
I hope that
many of these and other questions will be asked by all viewers of
this project, which is also a kind of documentary record of our
activity in selected places of the world. For this purpose, several
minutes of footage from street cameras scattered around the globe
were downloaded from the Internet (all from the last days of April
and the first days of May 2020, the time of the first global
lockdown).
The artistic idea of extracting objects in motion from
an image refers to one of the oldest computer "games", the
work of John Conway - The Game of Life. The "cells" moving
on the board obtain "life" on strictly defined mathematical
principles, creating moving patterns on it. Passers-by against the
background of the city board resemble animated cells, but the
algorithm of this movement is currently ruled by the coronavirus.
I'd like to express my gratitude to Grzegorz Rogala for assisting me in developing this project from the IT side. Without your knowledge it wouldn't come to life. Thank you so much!