Project 1: Compliment
Content: There is street art on the wall-Girl with long, curly hair. If passer by stops and makes a compliment, girl will blush.
Solution: In the wall will be located speech recognizing system (can be speech to text) that will perceptive the passer by's voice. Also there will be databases of words (in several languages) that will be considered as a compliment. Program will compare the stream of voice to the words from databases and if it matches, the red bulbs installed in the wall will slowly turn on.
Content: There is street art on the wall-Girl with long, curly hair. If passer by stops and makes a compliment, girl will blush.
Solution: In the wall will be located speech recognizing system (can be speech to text) that will perceptive the passer by's voice. Also there will be databases of words (in several languages) that will be considered as a compliment. Program will compare the stream of voice to the words from databases and if it matches, the red bulbs installed in the wall will slowly turn on.
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Project 2: The 'Thinker'
Content: Statue of the thinker will be placed in the street (inspiration from Rodin's famous statue). Instead of head statue will have big bulb, nearby the statue will be a chair. Passer by can take a sit and talk to the statue. If conversation will be interesting and statue finds passer by's ideas wise, he will start 'thinking'-bulb will slowly light up. More wise would be conversation more the thinker's head will lighten.
Solution: Bulb will be connected with the databases of words and sentences that will be considered wise. speech recognizing system will compare the voice streams to the words from database and determine what voltage should be passed to the bulb.
Solution: Bulb will be connected with the databases of words and sentences that will be considered wise. speech recognizing system will compare the voice streams to the words from database and determine what voltage should be passed to the bulb.
Project 3: Eternal Recurrence
Content: This project represents the idea of Nitzschean doctrine of 'Eternal Recurrence . The earth rolls permanently on the statue that is synthesis of DNA and mathematical symbol of eternity.
Solution: Mechanism has to be considered and the relevant material for statue should be chosen.
Solution: Mechanism has to be considered and the relevant material for statue should be chosen.
Project 4: Damaged Telephone
Content: On the street wall there is an ordinary mirror. If passer by will look into the mirror, in some seconds telephone will call and if he/ she answers, the telephone will play a melody, that matches passer by's mood.
Solution: There is invisible camera in the mirror that studies the facial expressions of the person and signals it to telephone, that represents the conjunction of melodies that are sorted by different moods. Program will chose the relavant melody and play it in the case passer by answers the phone.
Solution: There is invisible camera in the mirror that studies the facial expressions of the person and signals it to telephone, that represents the conjunction of melodies that are sorted by different moods. Program will chose the relavant melody and play it in the case passer by answers the phone.
Project 5: Treasure
Content: The goal of this project is to ask a question: what life is? why it vanishes so fast and what it leaves behind,
It contains elements of Art Terrorism-person can be involved into the art process unwillingly.
There is a trunk near the wall. One of the pavement's tile has hidden button underneath. When someone puts his foot on it., trunk suddenly opens , white light will emerge on the wall and human shadow will cross it over, dissapearing behind the light, all that will remain is the text from Gogen's famous painting: "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"
Solution: The trunk is a set of optical devises, that provides light effects and shadows.
It contains elements of Art Terrorism-person can be involved into the art process unwillingly.
There is a trunk near the wall. One of the pavement's tile has hidden button underneath. When someone puts his foot on it., trunk suddenly opens , white light will emerge on the wall and human shadow will cross it over, dissapearing behind the light, all that will remain is the text from Gogen's famous painting: "Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"
Solution: The trunk is a set of optical devises, that provides light effects and shadows.
Project 6: Wall poetry
Contest: Passer by is stopped by the incognito voice that askes him/her to listen the poem. Incognito voice is telling him what mood it has now and what poem it wants to read. Meanwhile passer by is searching where the sound comes from, voice reads the poem. Passer by is confused, there is only an ordinary wall in front of him.
Solution: There will be several sensors in the wall that determines passer by's location. (System will work in determined time intervals). Audio system will tell him/her to stop. Devise is totally invisible. While passer by is searching who is talking to him, wall tells him a poem, that will be randomly chosen from the selection. If the passer by will leave the place, audio system will ask him to come back. If he returns wall resumes poem, otherwise it will whine about people who don't respect poets or society's lost interest in poetry..
Solution: There will be several sensors in the wall that determines passer by's location. (System will work in determined time intervals). Audio system will tell him/her to stop. Devise is totally invisible. While passer by is searching who is talking to him, wall tells him a poem, that will be randomly chosen from the selection. If the passer by will leave the place, audio system will ask him to come back. If he returns wall resumes poem, otherwise it will whine about people who don't respect poets or society's lost interest in poetry..
ProJECT 7:Harlequin
On the high column, somewhere at the square or at park of the city will dwell marionette puppet of Harlequin (at night it will be illuminated by theater lights). Harlequin will be the unlimited possibility to express one’s opinion loudly. You can record or write any of your idea/opinion/expression online on the website. It doesn't matter whether idea is political, social or private, Harlequin will say it loudly one by one. Reason of this project is that people will listen to each other. (IN this century we have lack of time to listening each other, maybe Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha is good example to be mentioned here, all the wisdom he obtained from training Buddhism for whole life was that he learnt how to listen other people). It will become place where people will come by purpose to listen Marionette of Harlequin talking other people’s ideas. I remind you that Harlequin has origins in Sufi religion. Thus speech of Sufi clown gives it more symbolical meaning.
It is desirable to be honest or sarcastically during recording your speech. It can be also used as a platform for political discussions. I would love if the project will get so popular that politicians start going to Harlequin to listen what society things about them, and it is amazing to hear the truth from the clown, like it used to be in old times.
Solution: It needs webpage and program that opens audio files one by one from the web. Also if someone writes text, Harlequin can read it by using text to speech software, but its more desirable if you record the voice, in this case your expression will be more natural.
It is desirable to be honest or sarcastically during recording your speech. It can be also used as a platform for political discussions. I would love if the project will get so popular that politicians start going to Harlequin to listen what society things about them, and it is amazing to hear the truth from the clown, like it used to be in old times.
Solution: It needs webpage and program that opens audio files one by one from the web. Also if someone writes text, Harlequin can read it by using text to speech software, but its more desirable if you record the voice, in this case your expression will be more natural.
PROJECT 8: Parrarel Universes
On the street there will be mirror. If one looks inside after several seconds he/she will notice that the area in the mirror (reflection of the area behind him/her) is deconstructed and changed to different landscape ( for example he/she will found himself standing on the top of mountain, at ancient temple, among Maya tribe, in space, in cartoon environment with fairy tale characters, etc). Thus landscape changes in time, space, reality.
Idea of the project is Heidegger’s famous philosophical views about time and space, and our being in these dimensions and also questioning the stability of reality in terms of Jean Baudrillard’s “Simulation and Simulacra”.
Project 9: NOURISH ONLY WITH CALORIE_RICH BOOKS
This project is made for libraries, it can be either on their building facades or in libraries' interior. When someone takes up or puts a book on the table, the painted guy appetizingly licks his lips