September 6, 2008
Image Fulgurator
Image Fulgurator is a camera-looking device that is used to smuggle visual information into other people's photographs.
The Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there's a another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on a surface the exact same moment when someone else is photographing it.
The intervention takes a few milliseconds and will most likely leave the targeted photographer puzzled as the motif he/she just photographed will suddenly contain an extra visual layer, somewhat like a watermark.
Image Fulgurator is a project by the artist Julius von Bismarck, who just recieved a Golden Nica Award at Ars Electronica for his work.
[via Guerilla Innovation]
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