Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, April 2008

visualisation of other installation possibility with 20 or more monitors

FLAG METAMORPHOSES INSTALLATION

Technical Requirement for Screening

Requires Flash Player 9 (or newer - http://labs.adobe.com ) and a computer with double processor / dual core.
Alternative: The Flash animations are converted to video -> DVD, or to other digital video formats.

Installation as one large screen

A Flash application with many swf files on a hard drive. Open "flagmetamorphoses.swf" in Flash Player (Stand Alone) or in Adobe Media Player.
The Flash application will automatically open in full screen / projection mode and show the selection menu (mouse right click is restricted).

Computer with mouse, video projector, two loudspeakers. Please use devices and cable connections which provide RGB signal, like VGA or Dvi.
Aspect ratio and resolution of the computer monitor and of the projector: 4:3 , 1024 x 768 px.
Large projection in a room with no other sounds around (or: headphones instead of loudspeakers).
A socket or small table with the mouse on it (no keyboard!), with short instruction paper.
The computer can for example be installed under / in the socket, or beneath the ceiling, together with the projector.
The audience can choose the animations from a selection menu. After one animation has played, the menu returnes.

Installation with 20 or more monitors on sockets

In an exhibition environment , a different installation version is possible: 20 or more sockets with monitors (each one fed by a computer or DVD player), looking in different directions.
Each monitor shows one of the longer, or 1-2 of the short, animations, looping. The sounds are played low in order not to disturb each other. The spectators walk from one monitor to the next, never seeing all animations at the same time, as the screens are placed in 8 different directions.

Installation: images and text as printer-friendly PDF

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Credits

Concept and project realisation: Myriam Thyes
Screenwriter: Myriam Thyes - and each author for his/her own animation(s).
Graphics + animation: Myriam Thyes - and each author for his/her own animation(s).
Sound / Music (stereo): Myriam Thyes - and each author for his/her own animation(s). Remark: sometimes using royalty free sounds from different sources.
Language: none. Production format: Flash.
33 animations so far. Duration of the whole series (including short brakes and titles), for theatrical or looping projection: 51:00
Country / year of Production: Germany, 2005 – 2008. (and ongoing)
Screening formats: preferred: Flash (swf) with selection menu. Alternative: DVD, or other digital video.

With animations by the following artists (so far):
Stacy Averill (US), Norbert Attard (MT), Peter Chanthanakone (CA), Christoph Frei (CH), Tomoaki Goto (US), Rona Innes (UK), Chris Joseph / Babel (CA), Anke Landschreiber (DE), Jorge Lara + Israel Reyna (MX), Sonya Mansour (US), Deanna Morse + animation class (US), Monika Oechsler (UK), Ajdin Pajevic (DE / BiH), Irena Paskali (MK), Max Pohlenz (DE), Joanna Priestley (US), Natalieann Rich (US), Barry L. Roshto (DE), Amir Scheulen + Frank Köhnen (DE), Alex Schneider (US), Nicola Tauscher (DE / KR), Myriam Thyes (DE / CH), Slobodan Tomic (HR)