ARTiVIS DIY Video Streaming Kit

Mónica Mendes and Pedro Ângelo
Video Streaming Kit, 2018
Master Interface Cultures

Collaboration between the University of Lisbon + M-ITI / LARSYS and Interface Cultures 

Surveillance technology is powerful and ubiquitous. What if we could harness it to take care of our planet and become closer to nature?

ARTiVIS is a research collective that develops interactive art explorations that use real-time video to create awareness about environmental sustainability issues. By combining easily available open hardware parts with custom open source software, we have developed a flexible low-cost video streaming kit that allows experimenting with the creative and civic possibilities of real-time video streaming.

Beyond its use on the ARTiVIS artworks, the kit's development has been shared through community workshops, like the one at Interface Cultures here documented and demonstrated, where fundamentals were taught through creative exploratory projects.

Exhibition at: IC at ars electronica 2018, Linz, Austria