Parallel Cityscapes

Parallel Cityscapes (PC)
By Jaanis Garancs and James Tunick

Installation part of the show, StereoVision
USF Museum of Contemporary Art
June 15th-August 4th, 2007
4202 E. Fowler Ave. Tampa, Florida

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Parallel Cityscapes (PC) is an interactive audiovisual environment that imagines the future of the personal computing while revealing the "hidden" spaces and relationships between memories. PC depicts the parallels between modern cities and future memory spaces, representing an archive of millions of user-generated photographs, video sequences, drawings and computer graphics from the Web, from mobile devices, and from public spaces. Each scene is a dynamic, algorithmically generated, stereoscopic, urban landscape with multidimensional hyperlinks that offer gateways to "parallel" scenes. This mind-bending journey is a breathtaking visual paradox between real and virtual, imagining a future in which 3D browsers and media spaces merge with real cities and encourage more advanced forms of collaboration.


Parallel Cityscapes is an interdisciplinary project that blends media and genres to create new art forms. Our goal in this project is to research the expanding frontier of the WWW, creating new ways to visualize the huge amount of data that is amassing on websites like You Tube. Our art work pushes this information to cell phones, web browsers, and immersive environments, truly defying classification as a certain type of art. By blending mobile devices, web, and physical spaces, we hope to show how people will one day create, share, and search for content on multiple platforms and in multiple dimensions.