SoundHunter (2025)
Installation, 1 screen video, 5:45 sec, 2 channel sound
Programmed rotating platform device, sound, sensors, rear projection screen, 16mm film projector, 16mm printing film, 3D print, bicycle tyre, aluminium, found car jack, steel wheels
280cm (Ø) x 170cm
SoundHunter is to reflect on the historical weaponization of the camera and its aggressive natureextending to digital and physical spaces. Turning a scene into a digital space - Trojan Horse virus and silent machine viewing.
This work is the result of a collaboration between a choreographer-director and five performers in choreography. Using self-programme SoundHunter device for automaticlly shooting, which automatically and continuously collects and analyses sound in a 360° environment and turns a 16mm camera towards the loudest sound.
The rear projection screen, framed by a bicycle tyre, works in a self-presenting format - the central device continuously collects and analyses the volume in real-time, driving the screen toward the loudest sound direction. The content projected on the screen is captured by the same central device at the SoundHunter -> performance site, forming a self-feedback loop of capture and projection.
The projections present images based on the imagination of the Trojan Horse(a common computer virus) in digital space, constructing the performer’s image, a hunting ground, and a trap—stealthy, disruptive, hunted, a soldier wearing armour in the Trojan War. The central device is shooting, as well as shooting (the dimension of hunting).
The traditional identities and hierarchies of the viewer and the screen become unpredictable - whether the audience is passively targeted by SoundHunter, actively following SoundHunter or nothing.
Concept - Direction: Didi Hu
Choreographer: Casper Dillen
Performer:
Cizzoe Yi Wang, Dann Xiao, Lil Soap, Ning An, Yujie Duan
Director of Photography & Lighting Design: Bethany Yang
1st Assistant Camera: Tianyi Fu
Production Design: Qianzi Song
Art Director: Yixin Li
Sound Design: Chaney Manshu Diao
Visual Effects & Sound Technology: Leung Jai
Laser Visual Effects: Cainy Yiru Yan
BTS Photography Artist: Kaishui Yikai Liu
Costume Design: Lil Soap
Costume & Makeup Assistant: Zhongyang Xia, SzeNga Ho
Special Thanks:
Andrew Hill, Daniel Copley, Felix Loftus, Yewen, Mingxin Zhang
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