What you’re looking at is an installation by Gebhard Sengmüller called “A Parallel Image.” Technically, it’s art, but it’s more of an interesting deconstruction of technology than anything else. Instead of transmitting a video signal digitally via HDMI or VGA, this contraption does it in analog: 2500 photoconductors in an array, individually wired to 2500 bulbs on the other side. The result is that anything shone on one side appears on the other by a simple and entirely physical process.
It’s ridiculously inefficient in one way, yet almost as elegant as possible in another. And as you can imagine, it’s not very high resolution. 2500=50 x 50, so it’s got about the same amount of pixels as an area the size of a quarter on whatever screen you’re reading this on. Not something I’d want to read blogs with, but it does transmit that projector image pretty well.
[via Hack a Day]
glad to see something like this during this so called hd era..
I don’t think it has to be that hard. One can achieve the same show pretty much using a simple shadow puppet set-up. Now a colored 2500 multi-pieces shadow puppet show is what I would call an art.
I don’t know, I think its just me, but this just looks like a bunch of wires hanging in the air. Maybe its abstract art.
Incredible setup — a piece of beauty!
wonder why they went with the silhouette approach. shining figures would have made for a pretty intense display, if they could pull it off.
that being said, I think it looks pretty darn cool >.<
Damned artists and their deconstruction of our technology!
Can’t they leave well enough alone?