Monovacation
Monovacation cordially invites you to “the vacation” of vacations…
Official tourism commercials from 30 countries—each competing for global attention—were selected and broken down into their smallest meaningful clips. These 3–4 second clips were individually tagged based on their visual content and connotations. The tags were connected via shared clips and mapped into a network diagram.
A new film sequence was then generated by traversing this network—jumping from one node to its nearest neighbor, following the most central tags. Shores from Egypt to Portugal, women from Israel to India, mythological figures from Thailand to Turkey—Monovacation extracts a composite fantasy of “the vacation,” stitched together from global fragments.
Three part installation:
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Projection (3 min loop): Official tourism commercials from competing countries presented in parallel as a grid video, serving as the data source.
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Digital Print: Network map of tags connected by shared clips, generated through content analysis of the commercials. The blue path marks the traversal used to create the final film.
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Video (6 min loop): New film re-edited by the algorithm that follows the traversal path through the network.
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