[spectre] signal, an exhibition of telematic art - final day

[oliver grau]

signal
http://www.year01.com/signal
final day, Saturday June 7th: signal, an exhibition of telematic art
Simon Penny, Bill Vorn, Steve Heimbecker

Bedlam Telekinesis
by Bill Vorn and Simon Penny
DECONism
330 Dundas Street West
Toronto

Wind Array Cascade Machine: Pod
by Steve Heimbecker
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 444
Toronto

Bedlam Telekinesis is collaboration between Quebec artist Bill Vorn and 
Australian artist Simon Penny which explores the creation of mixed or 
augmented reality through the use of computation and telematics. It is a 
two-way telematic/telerobotic installation that joins two locations within 
the DECONism gallery space. An enclosed space in the back of the gallery 
contains four cameras which capture and record bodily gestures of the 
visitors. This data is used to determine the behaviour of a vaguely 
anthropomorphic robot installed in the semi-public space of the gallery 
window. A fifth camera records the robot and the responses of onlookers, 
which are then projected in the video, capture space at the back of the 
gallery.  In this way, a highly mediated gestural communication loop is 
formed by Bedlam.

Wind Array Cascade Machine: Pod by Montreal based artist Steve Heimbecker 
is a digital landscape of the tactile and the ethereal. It consists of an 
array of sixty-four movement sensors on the roof of the Méduse Artists' 
Co-operative in Quebec City and sixty-four corresponding light sculptures 
at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto. As the wind blows 
across the roof in Quebec, the sensors gather real-time data and transmit 
it though the WWW to the light markers in the Toronto exhibition space. The 
lights illuminate according to the pressure waves of the wind, showing the 
audience a visual representation of the pattern related to the amplitude, 
direction, and wave motion of the wind at the remote location.

Curated by Michael Alstad and Camille Turner.

signal is a co-production between Year Zero One and InterAccess Electronic 
Media Arts Centre as part of the 2003 Subtle Technologies Festival.
http://www.subtletechnologies.com


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