TGIC
Romain Tardy · original software · 2018 · Vlieland, Netherlands, then GLOW Eindhoven and tour
Our role Real-time software, generative visuals.
A large light and sound installation, in a 25-metre circle, fed in real time by the most searched terms on Google in the host country. Visitors stand in the middle of light, words and computer-generated chants: an involuntary self-portrait of our networked society. Who are we really, and what do we confide to Google in the intimacy of our phone?
We wrote the original software: live collection of the searches, voice synthesis, and the staging in light and sound of a stream that changes with every country and every hour.
Created at the Into the Great Wide Open festival on the island of Vlieland, Netherlands, in September 2018, with MU, then at GLOW Eindhoven 2018 and on tour.
Credits
- Artist Romain Tardy
- Music Loran Delforge
- Original software development Hand Coded: Cyril Laurier
- Production Into the Great Wide Open, with MU art space; GLOW Eindhoven with MU and STRP
- Photos Sander Heezen
Press
- “An image that shows humanity as it really is, not how it wants to be seen. Software programming: Hand Coded.” GLOW Eindhoven, 2018
Photos
Team
- Romain Tardy · Visual artist, light and installations
- Cyril Laurier · Co-founder. PhD in music AI, Sony CSL researcher.
- Maya Benaïnous · Co-founder. Artist and engineer, creator of Ledotron.
