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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
KhirkeeYaan
Shaina Anand
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KhirkeeYaan (khirkee: “window”; yaan: “vehicle”) was an exploration of an open-circuit TV system as a local area network, autonomous micro-media generation and feedback device. Consumer CCTV and CATV equipment was laid out to form temporary communication loops for the “use” of the community. TVs and electricity, consent, collaboration and participation were all sourced on location. Four sets of cameras, TVs and mikes were planted within a 200-metre range of each other. The cameras sat on top of the TVs. The quadrant, comprising sound and image from all four locations, was fed back to the TVs, allowing instant four-way communication.
The quad interface, eye-level communication and “televisation” produced conversations, performance and rapidly-evolving subjectivities, all happening in “local” time and within a 200-metre radius.
In this project, the “filmmaking” was automatic, made possible through a local network of mirror views, eye-level communication and the absence of a “cameraman” and editor. Through a visible process, video becomes the site and the space becomes media, complicating or temporarily shifting the micro-politics of the sites on which they occur. Seven “episodes” were enabled over seven sets of installations in and around Khirkee Extension, New Delhi.
Links: http://www.chitrakarkhana.net/khirkeeyaan.htm
The quad interface, eye-level communication and “televisation” produced conversations, performance and rapidly-evolving subjectivities, all happening in “local” time and within a 200-metre radius.
In this project, the “filmmaking” was automatic, made possible through a local network of mirror views, eye-level communication and the absence of a “cameraman” and editor. Through a visible process, video becomes the site and the space becomes media, complicating or temporarily shifting the micro-politics of the sites on which they occur. Seven “episodes” were enabled over seven sets of installations in and around Khirkee Extension, New Delhi.
Links: http://www.chitrakarkhana.net/khirkeeyaan.htm
Shaina Anand (IN) has been working independently in film/video and other media since 1997. In 2001, she initiated Chitrakarkhana.net. (image factory / artist food), a fully independent unit for public intervention through experimental media, based in Mumbai.