01 Sep Lonelygirl512
Spring 2007
Max/MSP/Jitter
This project was a collaboration between myself, Zane Van Dusen and Kyle McDonald. Using Max/MSP and Jitter we created a network video loop using 3 laptops and a wireless router. The first laptop would send each individual channel of video to one laptop and then to the next and then back to the first. This feedback loop would eventually degenerate into a mess of noisy pixels. This degraded transfer was achieved by sending 512-pixel packets over UDP (which is a lossier protocol than TCP).
Our source footage came from youtube star ” Lonelygirl15. ” The ambient audio and regular talking audio were added in post production. We’re not sure what causes the stripes at the end but our guess is that they result from some sort of video “harmonic.”