The
fundamental process
This involves participants contributing a chosen colour and explaining
on video, in whatever terms they wish, the significance and meaning that
colour holds. The video clip is attached to its corresponding colour position
in the universe, represented by a marker.
By using a common three value coordinate for colour i.e. HSV (Hue Saturation
and Value), there will be a corresponding Cartesian spatial relationship
translatable to X, Y and Z. Any colour chosen therefore will have an X,
Y, Z spatial position; this will locate it precisely within the environment.
During exhibition the audience, through interaction with the interface
navigate through the universe recalling the video clips in an immersive
environment of sound and colour. They will be able to travel to the region
of yellows, to the region of blues, of reds… and find who has made
a claim to those colours and why. If they have participated and contributed
they will be able to search for themselves. There are currently over 500
contributors. This increases during each exhibition.
Navigational controls will be as simple as possible to enable engagement
by the widest possible audience.
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The
Analytical Engine
A significant aspect of the project is the creation of an analytical engine, which interrogates the associations a colour has within the contributions. It will therefore represent: age, gender, ethnicity, geography, wealth or deprivation, formal or informal institutions or organizations, formal and informal social groupings, class, political opinions, culture, a time, a chronology, religious or philosophical beliefs etc. There will, through the analysis of this associated information, be generated complex interrelated threads of narrative. With the development of the input system to include remote sources, such as web, it will create a vast database of colour information.
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