Claude Fortin

Writings and Presentations:

• Title: The Dual Skins of a Media Façade: Explicit and Implicit Interactions
  Writing Type: Paper
  Author(s):
  • Claude Fortin
  • Kate Hennessy
  
  Exhibition: SIGGRAPH 2015: Hybrid Craft
  Abstract Summary:

  In the fall of 2013, Mégaphone, an architectural-scale interactive “Speakers’ Corner,” was deployed outdoors after dusk in downtown Montréal, Canada. This urban art installation included a monumental media façade designed to display a transcription of some of the words uttered into the microphone by end users. Driven by the system’s two temporal modalities—a performative “live mode” and an archival “sleep mode”—the video projections revealed the dual skins of a media façade that spanned almost an entire city block. This article examines how activists appropriated Mégaphone to transform an ordinary building into an urban mausoleum.

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