PARTICIPATE

Reflection/Connection is a participatory community art project, an exercise in collective memory making for this time in isolation. You are invited to contribute a short video self-portrait of 10-20s, which will be filtered through piece of open source generative code art, schemaVideoVariabile, and added to the Reflection/Connection collection. The collection will be on permanent display on a dedicated Instagram account @reflectionConnectionProject. A compilation of the filtered video portraits was exhibited in VR in 2020 during the Covid lockdown as part of the Creative Code Visual Art Showcase.

This project is instigated by Nathan Starchild.
@starchildart
starchildart.com

This will take 5 minutes. There is no need to rush.

• Get comfortable.
• Get your phone out, open the camera.
• Line up the shot, get ready to record.
• Close your eyes.
• Really take this moment to get settled.
• Notice the muscles in your face. Release any tension.
• Breathe
• Keep you eyes closed.
• Start recording.
• When you are ready, open your eyes.
• Look directly into the camera, not the screen.
• Record for as long as you like

Follow the instructions below to upload your file

Please use WeTransfer to send your video to: reflectionconnectionproject@gmail.com

In the message, please write something you would like to leave behind when we come out of lockdown.

Your contribution will be anonymous by default.
If you would like to be credited, please include your name in the message.
If you would like to be tagged on instagram, please include your instagram handle.

The videos will become quite distorted, you will be hard to recognise, but not impossible.
If you would prefer to be unrecognisable, please write "diguise me!" in your message.

All of the content produced by this project (the filtered videos, not your originals) will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The code used to filter the video, schemaVideoVariabile, is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.
The code is available on my github.

This website is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0.
The code is available on my github.