Author: LG

Researching this assignment, I came across “Slow Shutter Cam” by Cogitap software. Slow shutter cam is a $2.99 app that stimulates slow shutter speeds. The app developer says that it allows you to “capture a variety of amazing slow shutter speed effects that you only thought you could get with a DSLR.”

While the app is limited to iphone right now and locked behind a paywall, I really appreciate that it doesn’t require you to get any extra gadgets from your phone to unlock more camera functionality. I tried it out and I really enjoyed the weird stuff I was able to capture in the short time I was playing with it. I feel like there’s probably other (free?) apps out there that might achieve a similar effect though.

https://www.cogitap.com/ssc/

This sculpture by Julius Popp uses falling streams of water to show words that are only visible as the water is falling. The installation focuses on words from live news feeds, and the artists goal was to highlight how fast moving information and news is in the modern era.

The only thing I would change with this project is that the installation only shows words and not images or icons. If I were to have access to this system, I think I would want to experiment with using a very high contrast live camera feed to show human faces and bodies in the water rather than words. If it worked (which it might not) I’d be really interested in using the water to capture a version of stop motion performance, where the audience only sees the performer through these brief snapshots in the water.

Additional Source: https://www.illuminateproductions.co.uk/bitfall

 

Artist Diego Trujillo Pisanty created a camera that uses AI to turn sound into images. The images he creates are really surreal and captivating to me, you can sometimes see basic outlines of the things he’s capturing (like the metro or a car) but there’s this otherworldly quality to the images that makes me feel kind of dizzy.

I think this is a really interesting idea, but his scope was pretty narrow (only in Mexico City) and I wish I could see the tool used in other applications like in a park, or in the countryside since the noise is totally different there than in a bustling city. I think if I had access to this tool, I would want to use it to record some of the aspects of every day life that are known for causing hearing damage. Like planes, concerts, gunshots etc. I’m interested in seeing a visual representation of the hearing damage being caused.

Additional Source: https://www.creativeapplications.net/sound/blind-camera-point-and-shoot-sound-to-image/