VART3509 - FLVNEUR Installation Notes

FLVNEUR, RMIT Building 50 Window Gallery, 2014

Flash Video is currently the de facto standard for web-based streaming video. The FLV video file format made popular by new sites like Reuters.com and YouTube represent the lens with which we view the modern world. More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month, 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth.

The web is a populated space where one may interact, or silently observe the landscape. In the digital age the Flâneur inhabits the digital space as well as the physical, strolling through immense communities of user generated content - each, a as self proclaimed connoisseur of media.

FLVNEUR recreates the journey of the artist in the act of urban exploration in 2014. Using multimedia artifacts collected in this journey, FLVNEUR is presented in an engaging abstract, minimalist audio/visual interpretation of the aforementioned journey. Streaming live via YouTube and displayed on a digital screen installed in the RMIT Building 50 Window Gallery, FLVNEUR places this key concept at street level, occupying both the digital space and the physical - accessible to both the urban and the digital idle observer.

Materials:

LCD Screen

Macbook, Browser software running custom script, Wifi Connection

Glass window acoustic transducers

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