artist : MARCO MONFARDINI | AMELIE DUCHOW | GIANLUCA SIBALDI
format : audio / video performance
concept : MARCO MONFARDINI | AMELIE DUCHOW | GIANLUCA SIBALDI
production : sync | EXTRAsync | 2019
title : SCANAUDIENCE
SCANAUDIENCE | audio / video performance
artist: SCHNITT and GIANLUCA SIBALDI
format: audio / video performance
concept and music: MARCO MONFARDINI | AMELIE DUCHOW | GIANLUCA SIBALDI
production: sync
ScanAudience is a site-specific audio/video performance based on the realtime scanning of the spectators themselves, attending this show.
The project developedby Gianluca Sibaldi and the duo SCHNITT ( Marco Monfardini and Amelie Duchow ) uses a specially by the artists developed electronic device: a scanner able to
"read" any object, architecture or living being in its formal elements, translating the object's outer and inner dimensionin sound and video images.
A bar of light is the primary tool in this operation of realtime scanning, overpassing in several sequences the audience, analyzing the characteristics related to people’sbody shape, height,
clothing color and material. The scanning process develops with a sequence of slow vertical and horizontal scannings, memorizing the basic data informations, continuing with detail and
intense scanning sequences, the beamed light passes through the audience.
Each person generates their own individual sound and video images. The scanning process begins with beaming a very low speed structured light on the subject. It’s recaptured by an high
resolution sensor, while a network of five computers are processing the captured light and elaborating the scanned data in realtime.
The software has been especially developed by the artists: it is based on computer vision algorithms and a special kind of neural network to generate both visual and audible results.
ScanAudience is a performance in which the audience becomes the protagonist of the show, but at the same time experiencinga new sonorous and visual dimension under the artists
direction.
