Reflecting on Capture Real-time rendered video, light and sound installation (2006) The installation Reflecting on Capture explores the digital video medium and and its representation of "reality".The installation consists of cameras, microphones, a computer, loudspeakers, spotlights, a projection surface etc. The incoming camera images obtained in the gallery itself are being processed in real-time. By being produced by three spotlights projecting red, green and blue light, equivalent to the colour system RGB, the images are being reduced to a single colour, constituting a single medium of the original complexity. The projection surface is a screen that brings the image back to the form of the videoformat in the standard ratio of 4:3. Frame by frame the linear time and video sequence is built up, being the foremost characteristic for the moving image. Of the original image the light or glare of the light is left. The existing audio is being captured by microphones. The captured sounds most dominant frequency range is discerned and played back as sinusoidal tones. The real tone and amplitude is being reproduced synchronizing with the shift of the image. In the self-generated, closed system that the real-time process gives rise to, a very short and enclosed link between the medium of the time and the medium of the light is where the piece and its reality is created.
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