Audience members are asked to take pictures before and during the performance and MMS them to eye@free4md.com. By allowing the content and subject matter of the performance to be entirely unknown, user defined and removed from any form of predetermined idea, I am attempting to discover what visual mosaics are possible when creation exists entirely in the moment.

Video performance has always intriqued me because I find that it is extraordinarily powerful to witness the

My target audience would be anyone with a cell phone capable of taking and sending pictures. Unfortuntely, due to technical concerns, those with sprint and nextel service would not be able to participate.

A user would either be present at a live performance or view the installation of the project in a public space. Then they would either take a picture or send a picture already on their phone to a specific email address that in a performace setting would be presented to them before walking into the performance or in an installation setting would be visible in the installation space. Once the email is sent the picture will become part of a database of imagery that is read into a max patch and manipulated to form a changing mosaic of imagery.

The piece can be run off my laptop. In a performance setting, it has sound, which can be turned off in an installation setting. It can run either directly on a laptop screen or monitor or (if performed) it can be projected.

I discovered that it was much more difficult then I thought to get max to read in information from a database. I discovered alot about the program's parsing capabilties. Unfortunately, I also discovered a lot of bugs. Originally, I had planned to use mobile phone video as well but when video is incorporated it max crashes, as does my entire computer.