OUTRACE / THE PROCESS

THE INSTALLATION MESSAGES THE MOVIE LOCATION THE PROCESS OUTRACE PAPER THE DESIGNERS                                                                                                                                                       
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DEVELOPMENT

In the weeks leading up to the event, the OUTRACE installation was built up and thoroughly tested in a warehouse at Audi's Ingolstadt headquarters. Teams of metalworkers, builders, robotics engineers, computer engineers and software developers were on site to fine tune the physical and virtual systems.

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ROBOTICS

Seemingly implausible machines, pulled from the pages of a science fiction novel, industrial robots are in fact ubiquitous throughout high tech production facilities.

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TECHNOLOGY

OUTRACE was an installation that consisted of 6 independent systems coordinated by one KWTC CONTROLLER. A message was processed every 60 seconds. The system was capable of handling over 10.000 messages in a week. 1KW WEB SERVER was the entry point for the end user. Each video message was encoded at 8 frames per second, at a resolution of 1280x850 and uploaded to outrace.org and Youtube.

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In early 2010, The London Design Festival commissioned Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to design the festival’s annual Trafalgar Square installation.

From September 16 to 23, 2010 their project entitled OUTRACE empowered the general public to take control of eight industrial robots on loan from Audi's production line and use them to write personal light messages which were recorded and shared as video files.

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