Interactive Net-Based Multi Screen Installation
Are we living in a globalised world that is becoming increasingly homogeneous? Languages, plant and animal species are continually decreasing. Buildings, shopping centres and cities are becoming more and more alike. Echolocation deals with cultural diversity and at the same time with the strong forces of homogenisation that also affect this diversity in the social-digital sphere, and poses questions about the significance of this increasing homogeneity.
Echolocation makes it possible to select any location on a map and navigate through the stories that others have posted about that place on social networks such as YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. These personal impressions are streamed in real time, like windows into our changing world. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a journey into constantly new image and sound collages in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and more and more similarities.
Echolocation is a further development of Realtime Stories