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Kosmoscope: a seismic observatory

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International Multimedia Conference archive
Proceedings of the seventeen ACM international conference on Multimedia table of contents

Beijing, China

SESSION: Interactive art program track 2: natural table of contents

Pages 1083-1086

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-608-3

Authors

Tim Redfern	Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Mads Haahr	Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

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SIGMULTIMEDIA: ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Earth tremors are a constant, intrinsic part of our planet's nature and a visceral experience when first encountered.

Kosmoscope, a telematic art installation by Tim Redfern, marries two venerable technologies, the kaleidoscope and the seismograph, in order to immerse viewers within an abstract audiovisual representation of earth tremors. Kosmoscope uses state of the art seismic monitoring to render live scientific data impressionistically, making the worldwide network of ultra-sensitive seismic microphones audible and creating an imposing, visually fractured narrative that evokes the frailty of humanity in the face of geological forces. This paper describes the Kosmoscope's influences, aims, design and realisation.

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