Parqueando

Interactive Installation

Three RC cars where retrofitted with microcontrollers (Arduino) and proximity sensors to allow them to have autonomous movement. The cars avoid obstacles but also present an erratic, quasi-animalistic movement behaviour while exploring the space. A speaker mounted on the car emits synthesized tones that change according to the proximity of the obstacles. Each car carries a video display showing a single video (by Jorge Lozano) divided in a triptych. The movement of the cars generates a sonic and visual landscape within the space.

Info

  • Technology: Modified remote controlled cars with added microcontrollers and proximity sensors, sound and video.
  • Roles: Concept (in collaboration), full electronic circuit design and modification, Arduino programming and sound design.

Presentations

  • - El Parqueadero, mixed media art centre in Bogota, Colombia, November 2012, in the show "Error_ Origen no Encontrado" as part of the collective Entre_Activa.