Register: from realization to activation

Abstract

This paper shows the process of the Register multimedia project. This project addresses the discontinuity between the organic proximity of life and the symbolic world approached by manipulated technologies. This objective was accomplished using free and open technologies formed by two interactive recording systems. These devices are elements in an installation made up by different environments, where two artists participate collecting, classifying, and functioning. Different categories, languages, and media, such as live art, new media performance and sound design, among others, are part of this installation. On the side of the user, he/she is confronted to a manipulated technical construction of his own image, to an aesthetic experience as well, where he positions himself as witness, and he/she is a fundamental and an involuntary element of artwork. Therefore, Register unveils the process of construction of reality mediated by contemporary culture stereotyped images.