Ambient Licks
Ambient Licks is a fourty-two hour statistical recording of a public space. We wanted to create an alternate portrait of the space (the New Media Meeting festival) and the people passing through. We can compare the results with a time-lapse video, where a picture is taken at regular intervals, only in Ambient Licks the picture is a set of sensor measurements. During the festival we measured light level, humidity, temperature, alcohol amount in the air and counted number of persons in the space. The portrait was created and presented live as shown in video.
The installation was created together with Chris Leung from the Pachube/PachuBox project. We used OpenFrameworks, Pachube and the PachuBox to capture and present the data.