GPS - VIDEO scape: notes by Esther
Stéfan Piat works already for some time on clever ways of placing different video clips of a specific real city space in an interactive, collage like interface. In his work the audience is invited investigate the recorded city-scape in a way that one could compare with moving through spaces in computer games. As he mixes in different times of the year, encounters with by passers and animals, footage of his own footsteps, his work results in a remarkable poetic and surrealist experience of space.
To be able to develop his work further Stéfan concentrated devoted himself for the four workshop days on the technological development of a tool that will be able to make collages of video clips in an spatial arrangement organized by actual GPS recordings made during the shooting of the clips.
Stéfan had to develop more ore less from scratch. He used Processing to read the GPS data into Pure Data, and used the time tags of both GPS and video clips/stills to organize them on the computer screen. The goal is to be able to edit video footage in space. Stéfan plans to be able to also use tilt sensor, so the the movements not only represent the replacement of the camera, but also the direction of the lens.
