[spectre] exh. signal, Toronto

[year01]

signal
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Year Zero One and InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre  present
signal, an exhibition of telematic art.

Bedlam Telekinesis
by Bill Vorn and Simon Penny
DECONism
330 Dundas Street West
Toronto, ON
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 22, 2003; 9-11pm

Wind Array Cascade Machine: Pod
by Steve Heimbecker
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre
401 Richmond Street West, Suite 444
Toronto, ON
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 24, 2003; 5-7pm

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.

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.


Curated by Michael Alstad and Camille Turner.

Part of the 2003 Subtle Technologies Festival.
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