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SCANAUDIENCE | audio / video performance
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ScanAudience is a site-specific audio/video performance based on the realtime scanning of the spectators themselves, attending this live show. The project developed by Gianluca Sibaldi and  the duo SCHNITT ( Marco Monfardini and Amelie Duchow ) uses a specially by the artists developed electronic device: a scanner able to "read" any object, architecture or living being in its formal elements, translating the object's outer and inner dimension in sound and video images.  A bar of light is the primary tool in this operation of realtime scanning, overpassing in several sequences the audience , analyzing the characteristics related to people’s body shape, height, clothing color and material. The scanning process develops with a sequence of slow vertical and horizontal scannings, memorizing the basic data informations, continuing with detail and intense scanning sequences, the beamed light passes through the audience.
SCANAUDIENCE - live at PHILHARMONIE DE PARIS / Biennale Nemo / Paris  (photo by Quentin Chevrier)
SCANAUDIENCE - live at L.E.V. Festival - Gijon Spain  (photo : Elena de la Puente)
SCANAUDIENCE - live at MUTEK Montreal - Canada (frame by Yann Manuel)
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Each person generates their own individual sound and video images. The scanning process begins with beaming a very low speed structured light on the subject, recaptured by an high resolution sensor, while a network of five computers is processing the captured light and elaborating the scanned data in realtime. The software has been especially developed by the artists: it is based on computer vision algorithms and a special kind of neural network to generate both visual and audible results.  ScanAudience is a performance in which the audience becomesthe protagonist of the show, but at the same time experiencing a new sonorous and visual dimension under the artists direction.
SCANAUDIENCE - live at ACT FESTIVAL | Asian Culture Center | Guangjiu | South Kore | ACT Festival 2022 | courtesy of ACC | photo by Kim Sarah
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artist : SCHNITT + GIANLUCA SIBALDI
format : audio / video performance
concept and music : MARCO MONFARDINI
production : sync | EXTRAsync 2019
title : SCANAUDIENCE
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AMELIE DUCHOW GIANLUCA SIBALDI
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