Marko Manriquez » Jitter http://www.markomanriquez.com/blog Collision detection for the adjacent possible Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:02:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Epiphyte http://www.markomanriquez.com/blog/2008/05/06/epiphyte/ http://www.markomanriquez.com/blog/2008/05/06/epiphyte/#comments Tue, 06 May 2008 20:50:34 +0000 marko http://www.markomanriquez.com/blog/2008/05/06/epiphyte/ epi-sequenceEPIPHYTE (borrowed from a botanical term) is a bi-pedal powered, interactive video installation that seeks to explore notions of sustainability and infosthetics by revealing the hidden history of products. Basically, its what happens when you take a stationary exercise bicycle and hook it up to Max/MSP & Jitter software to manipulate video playback of a product’s mini-narrative. The user is helping to spin a narrative infographic – such that(for instance) a iPod map backwards from Boulder-to-Cupertino-to-Taiwan and India, as it follows the production chain back to its beginnings – the path extrapolates to visualize the many outsourced or subcontracted geospatial components. The end result (hopefully) allows for reflection as the EPIPHYTE installation reveals the hidden social & environmental impact and the often counter-intuitive costs of our everyday consumption on a global scale.

Epiphyte was at the ATLAS Institute for Art, Media and Performance at CU Boulder during the month of April. The interactive installation is now at the Object+Thought gallery, 3559 Larimer Street, downtown Denver for the month of May.  Epiphyte is a joint project of the Sustainable Media Lab, comprised of Sarah Chung, Robert Fitzgerald, Paul Gerhardt and Marko Manriquez.

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