Play-by-Play

The parametric measurement of vital constants, movement, position and time is no longer used solely to enhance the performance of elite athletes. Shopping centres, gyms, schools, insurance companies, government authorities and even museums now rely on the same technology to monitor and optimise visitor flows or their outcomes. In the realm of sports entertainment, this data is also used by commentators to fill their enthusiastic narratives about athletes' achievements. In this broadcast, the actions of visitors ascending the stairs at the Santa Monica Centre are analysed, parameterised and transformed into a spectacle.

François Delaunay, Julià Carboneras i Cabosanroque
 

Julià Carboneras Girgas, born in 1980 in Figueres, is a musician and engineer. He has received several awards and grants, including a VIDA award for art and artificial life from the Telefónica Foundation, the award for best installation at ArteMov in Brazil, and the eMobiLArt (Europe Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists) grant. He has collaborated with renowned artists and collectives worldwide and has exhibited at venues such as PS1 in New York, Itaú Cultural in São Paulo, and museums and art centers in Finland, Poland, Iceland, Greece, Austria, Canada, and more. He has taught in the postgraduate course “Digital Technologies for the Stage” (UPF), the master's in digital video (UPF), the Bachelor in Arts Degree (Elisava School), and at the Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Center in Toronto, among others.

François Delaunay is an engineer with a multifaceted and interdisciplinary artistic background. With 30 years of experience as a DJ and music curator, he has developed experimental travel experiences and worked on the democratization of data science and statistics. He has participated in projects such as the DJ collective Transe Travail in Burgundy, France, and the Association Jalapeños, which promotes electronic music in schools and public events. He is also the author of the Guide du voyage monovoyellique, translated the website Latourex.org into Spanish, and has given talks on experimental travel in France and Spain. In the field of data science, he organized an event at the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics in Barcelona on the use of tools to investigate the black cards scandal. His technical skills include reproducible research. He works as an engineer in the wind energy sector, specializing in wind and data.

Acknowledgements:
Broox Technologies, suppliers of the artificial vision software.
Edu de Batlle, voice.