{"id":495,"date":"2010-03-18T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/hand-from-above\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:19:08","slug":"hand-from-above","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/hand-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand From Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-495-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BRczG7M3Ozc&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BRczG7M3Ozc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BRczG7M3Ozc<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u2018Hand From Above\u2019 is a public art piece on the \u2018BBC Big Screen\u2019 in Liverpool. \u201cIt encourages us to question our normal routine when we often find ourselves rushing from one destination to another.\u201d [1] When pedestrians walk by, they see themselves on the big screen and will be tickled, stretched, flicked or removed by a big hand. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The screen is connected to a CCTV camera, linked to a computer that runs software that can pick walkers-by based on their proportions and how apart they are from other people. When there is too big a crowd it resorts to tickling people, with a random selection. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">In a certain way this is an augmented reality, especially made to shake people out of their normal routine. As we can see in the video, people clearly react to it; they mostly have fun with it. But it also makes you think; a higher power (in this case a hand from above) can easily wipe you away. Our lives are all very precious to us, yet they\u2019re also very fragile. Maybe we should stop once in a while and think about our lives and the world that surrounds us. This is in line with David Rokeby\u2019s ideas about interactive technologies. He defines an interactive technology as a mirror which provides us with a self-image and which also provides us \u201cwith a sense of the relation between this self and the experienced world. This is analogous to our relationship with the universe\u201d [2].<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/hand-from-above-1.jpg\" alt=\"Hand From Above\" title=\"Hand From Above\" width=\"286\" height=\"183\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" src=\" http:\/\/www.brenocallaghan.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/thfa_promo.jpg\" alt=\"Hand From Above\" title=\"Hand From Above\" width=\"293\" height=\"182\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">\u2018Hand From Above\u2019 investigates how the use of outdoor screens can be used to enhance the feeling of community in a city. There\u2019s even an entire project with conferences about this phenomena, called <a title=\" \" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanscreens.org\/\">Urban Screens<\/a>. Urban Screens defines its goals as follows: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">We want to network and sensitise all engaged parties for the possibilities of using the digital infrastructure for contributing to a lively urban society, binding the screens more to the communal context of the space and therefore creating local identity and engagement\u201d. [3] <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">\u2018Hand From Above\u2019 is an engaging urban screen that playfully transforms its passers-by. It will get people\u2019s attention and temporarily wake them up from their daily routine.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><span style=\"color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Notes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">[1] Chris O\u2019Shea: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisoshea.org\/projects\/hand-from-above\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">http:\/\/www.chrisoshea.org\/projects\/hand-from-above\/<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">[2] <\/span><span style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN;\" lang=\"EN\" xml:lang=\"EN\">Rokeby, David. \u2018Transforming Mirrors: Subjectivity and Control in Interactive Media\u2019 (1995). In: Edward Shanken, red. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Art and Electronic Media. <\/em>London: Phaidon, 2009: p. 223. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: ZH-CN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\" lang=\"EN-GB\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">[3] Urban Screens: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanscreens.org\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">http:\/\/www.urbanscreens.org\/<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":6456,"template":"","artist":[636],"streams":[8,11,17],"keywords":[3091,2292,3363,3364],"decade":[5544],"media":[5547,5550,5548,5546],"class_list":["post-495","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-chris-oshea","streams-charged-environments","streams-networks-surveillance-culture-jamming","streams-simulations-and-simulacra","keywords-augmented-reality","keywords-interactivity","keywords-public-space","keywords-urban-screen","decade-2000s","media-image","media-installation","media-text","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6471,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/495\/revisions\/6471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}