RAW
An audio/photographic tool for conveying minimally-mediated impressions of everyday life

Authors: Joëlle Bitton, Stefan Agamanolis, Matthew Karau
Research group: Human Connectedness
Research lab: Media Lab Europe
Year: 2002 - 2004
System: Projection, binauraul sound and programmed in ISIS
Exhibitions: Association pour le Dialogue et l'Orientation Scolaire, Paris, June 2003; Atelier du Bogolan, La Maison des Jeunes, Bamako, August 2003; ICHIM 2003, Ecole du Louvre, Paris, September 2003, Media Lab Europe, Dublin, 2003-2004; SIGCHI 2004, Vienna, May 2004; Batofar, Paris, June 2004; ISEA 2004, Helsinki, August 2004; New Forms Festival, Vancouver, October 2004; Dark Light Film Festival, Dublin, October 2004; Collision Six: Senses, Art Interactive, Cambridge, October 2004.


Concept: Records and accounts of everyday life in our pasts and presents are often mediated by numerous third parties (researchers, producers, editors, and so on). We feel this mediation degrades the full sense of awareness and appreciation we could achieve of other peoples and places. The goal of the RAW project is to develop a new kind of recording tool, together with a method for processing and presenting the material captured with the tool, that enables a more direct, minimally-mediated relationship between its user and the later audience, possibly in a far away place or time.

Launch website.
Launch QT demo (3mn14s)

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