The performance took place on April 5th 2006, 11-11:30 pm in the Ev building. 30 people were posted on different floors and by flickering an individual switch caused the entire floor to flicker. This was realized with a simple analog switch in the electric circuit of each floor. The switch turned one room into a master controlling adjacent rooms. A live video was broadcasted over the web so blinkers and remote audiences could see the performance in real-time from a global point of view. The video feed was transmitted from a small surveillance camera on the corner of the street emitting signal over radio-frequency. The signal was digitalized near a computer station inside the building using a dv cam, and broadcasted over the web using Quicktime broadcast. The broadcast was embedded in a max patch which overlayed a mask on the video, so that blinkers in the building would only see adjacent floors to theirs.
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