Is being presented at Sonic Arts Network EXPO Festival in Brighton from 4th to 6th July 2008. It will be sited within the LIghthouse. For more details check out the festival website. [http://expofestival.org]
Thank you to the folowing people for support, help, feedback and testing:
Louise Angell, Pete Bowcott, Tom Duggan, Paula Love, Geoff Litherland, Jenny Roberts, Rob Squirell and Naomi Terry.
The second video on the right was recorded at the Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University.
The third video example on the right is recorded in 'lab' conditions. The movement is captured by the webcam and then the final output is shown and heard through the laptop.
The viewer is confronted by a blank projection. As the viewer walks into the plane of the installation, they see a real-time slice of their form appear at the top of the projected image. The slice is then delayed and repeated below the real-time slice. The delay repeatedly happens until the frame is filled with a time-abstracted form of their presence within the space.
Sonically a similar process happens. There is nothing to hear until the viewer crosses the installation plane. The viewers form is analyzed by colour and location. The data that is collected then forms the basis on how the audio is played and in turn, interpreted by the viewer.
The interest for me lies within the viewer needing to actively participate to make anything happen. There is, in effect, a blank canvas and it is up to the viewer to negotiate this and ‘create’ something from nothing. Their presence will leave a unique mark or memory both visually and sonically, therefore the interpretation of what the audio/visual outcome might be depends on their own physical engagement with the work leaving a blurred line over the ownership of what has been created or what was experienced.