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--- "AVERAGE FUTURE ORACLE" (2000-2001)
 Carlos Atanes shown Average Future Oracle videoinstallation at Barcelona's Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu in December 2000 and January 2001. |
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CREDITS Author: Carlos Atanes Production: CIAJ Instituto de Cultura de Barcelona |
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The Average
Future Oracle is an device designed to deduce the imminent future
based on cumulative increment of past days images combined with casual interaction created both randomly and voluntarily by the spectator
and the non-spectator. The increasing information does prediction gradually more diffuse. The conclusion is paradoxical: the principle of causality does not lead to a determinist universe. |
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| DESCRIPTION: Videoinstallation with three screens, a camera, and many recorder, mixer and player machines. The central screen shows an imagge being produced in the present, with a delay of just a few milliseconds. The left-hand screen shows the image recorded 86,400 seconds (24 hours) previously. The right-hand screen shows the average future resulting from the combination of the first two screens. The Average Future Oracle device will eventually provide an object of study: an 8-hour-long video which encapsulates the entire duration of exhibition days. | |||
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