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Technical Descriptions: Motion Sensor Controlled Space

The document describes an interactive art installation where mouse movements trigger video projections related to cultural spaces in Eastern and Central Europe, reflecting on the region's integration into Western culture and the global techno-cultural society. It details the technical setup involving motion sensors that respond to audience movement, altering the visual display based on specific categories. The work explores themes of cultural belonging and alienation influenced by technological environments.

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Technical Descriptions: Motion Sensor Controlled Space

The document describes an interactive art installation where mouse movements trigger video projections related to cultural spaces in Eastern and Central Europe, reflecting on the region's integration into Western culture and the global techno-cultural society. It details the technical setup involving motion sensors that respond to audience movement, altering the visual display based on specific categories. The work explores themes of cultural belonging and alienation influenced by technological environments.

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Rodrigo Santos
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As portions of the text are brought into focus with a mouse device, each legible word

triggers a brief video projection drawn from the artist’s travels in Eastern and Central
Europe, offering glimpses of everyday cultural spaces that appear familiar but also
register a slight sense of difference. Legrady cites the intersection of two historical
shifts as the inspiration for this work: the difficult transition towards Western cultural
integration in Eastern Europe and the simultaneous proliferation of a “techno-cultural
society” worldwide. The sense that, in addition to differences based on geopolitical,
historical and economic circumstances, states of cultural belonging or alienation are
also contingent on being integrated into or excluded from the technological cultural
environment.

Technical Descriptions

Motion Sensor Controlled Space

Nine horizontal and six vertical sensors form a matrix that track audience movement.
The sensors' responses are mapped on the screen as bars, which highlight and dim,
based on sensor activation.

Horizontal audience movement from left of the space to the right changes the
selection of categories and paragraph fragments of the letter from the other side of
the screen. The bottom blue lit bars on the screen indicates horizontal sensor
activation. From left to right: the first 2 sensors trigger “Everyday Situations”, the
next 2: “Systems”, the next 2: “Issues of Technology”, the last

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