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Experts of exiles
Performing the lexicon
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We imagine the installation space as a territory where we can experience movements and feelings of being in exile. The screen reflects on dfferent stages of the state of mind of the experts of exile.
We are trying to connect words from the lexicon, gestures and the avatars that will react to the people present on this territory.
We identified three categories of words : UNSAFE, SAFE and CHANGE. We have connected the words from the lexicon that we thought relevant to these categories.
We used the pictures taken during the workshop with the students from Molenbeek Formation to create three series of movements expressing these three categories of words.
The category UNSAFE is represented by a bending movement. SAFE is expressed by embracing yourself with your arms. CHANGE corresponds to a movement of liberation, opening wide your arms in the air.
In parallel, we worked with Python to be able to combine randomly the words that appear in each category so as to create almost a new language. Is this new language not enlarging the experience of exile for each person entering this territory. The association of words propose additional layers of experience of feelings and meanings.
The idea is that one person enter the 'territory". By his presence and by his movement, he activates an avatar and the list 'UNSAFE'. If a second person enters the space, he connects to the first person, and together they activate the list of 'Change'. This list will be merged with the 'UNSAFE' list to create new combinations. So far, we haven't decided yet if the second person (or the two together???) will need to perform the gesture of 'Change' to activate the list. At least 3 people will be needed to activate the list of 'Safe', merged into the new list created by the merged lists of 'Unsafe' and 'Change'. After a while, the words of 'UNSAFE' category will progressively disapear from the territory. This whole process starts again as soon as one person is left alone on the territory.
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LIST OF WORDS
UNSAFE
boundar
ies
border
s
landscape
park
camp
rule
s
fear
cold
disappointment
pulling the
suitcase
run
lost
on the way
boat
bills
passport
lost the sunset
uncertainty
I also saw the other side
Simply I miss my mother
SAFE
museum
library
church
park
silence
lan
d
scape
playground
space
smartphone
camping
joy
hug
I clean a lot
clean
my cat
roots
family
link
possibility
of
return
sleep
share opinions
new friends
chance
passport
relarn to believe
unconditional love
money
children
my arrival in Belgium
relax
it's ok
will power
education
I also saw the other side
CHANGE
language
code
sensorial
impression
body
weight
food
ingredients
taste
sight
touch
smell
sound
climat
bridge
torn apart
displacement
freedom
architecture
list
from my
perspective
my live
nationality
different cultures
chance
decision
health
my story
gesture
daily life
diversity of languages
peace
travel
Twenty-four countries
import random
import time
un
safe = [
"boundaries", "borders", "landscape", "park", "camp", "rules", "fear", "cold", "disappointment", "pulling the suitcase", "run", "lost on the way", "boat", "bills", "passport", "lost the sunset, "uncertainty", "I also saw the other side", "Simply I miss my mother"
]
safe =
["museum", "library", "church", "park", "silence", "landscape", "playground", "space", "smartphone", "camping", "joy", "hug", "I clean a lot clean", "my cat", "roots", "family", "link", "possibility of return", "sleep", "share opinions", "new friends", "chance", "passport", "relarn to believe", "unconditional love", "money", "children", "my arrival in Belgium", "relax", "it's ok", "will power", "education", "I also saw the other side"
]
change = ["
language", "code", "sensorial", "impression", "body", "weight", "food", "ingredients", "taste", "sight", "touch", "smell", "sound", "climat", "bridge", "torn apart", "displacement", "freedom", "architecture", "list", "from my perspective", "my live", "nationality", "different cultures", "chance", "decision", "health", "my story", "gesture", "daily life", "diversity of languages", "peace", "travel", "Twenty-four countries"
]
nr = 0
while nr < 100:
part1 = random.choice(mots)
part2 = random.choice(mots)
print(part1 + part2)
print("\n")
time.sleep(1)
mots.append(part1+part2)
nr += 1
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Libraries used
GENSIM :
https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/index.html
SPACY :
https://spacy.io/
OSC BODY POSTURE DECTION FORMAT
18 persons
stream:
ID bone_name z up_flag
ID: 100, 105, 200, 205, 300, 305 > [kinect_id 0 person_count]
2 x [ change:
bone_name: ELBOW_LEFT | ELBOW_RIGHT
z: real_value: thresh for abs val : 0.4 (just use the flag!)
up_flag: 1|0 arm up
]
[ unsafe:
bone_name: SHOULDER_CENTER
x:
up_flag:
]
[
]
1. person
unsafe (arms_up) > word from cat, sentence
2. persons
each person in one state. dialog
3.
Reading space
An attempt to make a tool to write in a 2d and half space in order to experiment a relation between a particular space and a literature work, with new way of reading.
We use a blank world map where cities names are replaced by words. You can zoom and pan. Zooming is making words (dis-)appearing.
The challenge is to keep text (at least words combinations) readable (relativly), and both non-linear, multi-dimensionnal and density-variable.
For this purpose, to ways (with in-between degrees) : generative language, or human writing
And this is the crucial point where we stop our work (at this time!)
https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/pierrepierrepierre/cjazcs3fdd1ab2soc7e4hcbib.html?fresh=true&title=true&access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoicGllcnJlcGllcnJlcGllcnJlIiwiYSI6IkdXdE5CRFEifQ.3zLbKVYfHituW8BVU-bl5g#5.3/-4.255072/-49.693225/0