During the Festival Interferencia in Barcelona you can see another urban screening - Falling Life made by Michael Bielicky and Kamila B. Richter.
One can see it on the main square of Barcelona - Plaza Catalunya from 10:00pm on 13th and 14th of July projected on the Banco Madrid.





Falling Life - News


Falling Life is a permanently ongoing project that was introduced for the first time in Berlin in August 2005. It represents permanently appearing and disappearing information of our time and at the same time the fall of our western decadent civilization.
The particular use of the public space as an expanded cultural space is an important aspect of the project. This urban screening generally doesn’t need a curator or a gallery; it doesn’t need a fixed place, time or even an access to the electric power. Without any preparation and without any permits we are operating in a kind of projection guerilla style. We are equipped with a laptop, a compact light powerful projector and a small power generator. We simply decide when, where, how and what we will display. With this very mobile equipment we are able to have an instant presence in the info landscape of cities.
Another important aspect of Falling Life - News deals with the heavy infoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer - the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information are the news today. The news have been turning more and more into an entertainment - the Infotainment. The news producers are the biggest info polluters of our time. Also visual artists, scientists, intellectuals and advertisers produce mostly noisy information of any form and contribute in this way to infoEcological disaster.
With this awareness we decided to create a reduced visual language for public space as an alternative to the heavily polluted public information space (urban space, Internet, TV, printed matter, galleries, museums etc.) We believe one should consciously and ecologically approach contents and amount of data in the physical and digital space.
In our real time news visualization we reduce the content only to headlines and key words which appear in the news the most often. These reduced news are displayed as a dynamic pictogram language which is considered to be universal and instantly understandable. Because we use only white pictograms on a black background the typical screen format disappears and we transform the space into another form. The quick and universal language can be read by the spectator in passing by attitude without needing to stop. We hope to contribute with our minimalist data visualization to the to the infoEcology paradigm.

Stop infoPollution!

Kamila B. Richter and Michael Bielicky

INFO: info@infoecology.inf