habitgram

habitgram is a counter-surveillance coat that invites the wearer to engage in a unique experience. The coat incorporates multiple wireless mini-cameras, capturing the wearer's immediate environment. These live images are then projected in real-time onto the gallery walls, enabling an exploration of a novel perspective. When adorned with habitgram, the wearer effectively "wears" the space in which they stand.

Operating at the intersection of architecture and telepresence, habitgram teleture introduces a "reflective structure" connecting the exhibition space, viewers, participants, and the projection of video, 2D, and 3D animations representing the space.

The user, in control of this mediated image flow, finds themselves immersed in a somewhat unsettling manner. The question arises: can the media image be so untamable? Within this immersive environment, the viewer continually seeks to comprehend its structure and source. Simultaneously, they discover new methods of exploring the physical architectural space in relation to its mirrored video reflections. Immersion, in this context, not only fails to inhibit critical observation but, rather, becomes the catalyst for it.

The performance "habitgram Narrowcast" marked the inauguration of a custom-made VJing interface tailored specifically for this project. Programmed by Etienne Grenier. Sound by virgilag&jmx.