Reverse Shadow Theatre
01 | 2008Reverse Shadow Theatre is an installation created with the Animata real-time animation editor.
Wayang Kulit is the indonesian shadow puppet theatre, in which finely carved and painted leather puppets move behind a screen making the audiance see their shadows only. In our installation the situation is reversed. The role of the elaborate puppets is emphasized, while the visitor is a mere shadow trying to control the puppets by her movements.
Animata
09 | 2007Animata is a real-time animation software, designed to create interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances, and promotional screenings.
The peculiarity of the software is that the animation – the movement of the puppets, the changes of the background – is generated in real-time, making continuous interaction possible.
Out of Print
04 | 2007Printing press and the spread of books made the acquisition of knowledge available to anyone. Marshall McLuhan's term, the Gutenberg galaxy, refers to a period of cultural history, in which the book as an information provider plays a significant role. Because of the development of new knowledge acquisition methods by means of the development of information technology, television and the Internet, sooner or later we reach an era when printed matter is no longer necessary.
Machine/Process
10 | 2006The computer is a programmable machine that can store, retrieve, and process data. It is also a metamachine, a machine for creating virtual machines. Each time one starts a program on a computer, it is turned into a different virtual machine following different rules. These rules, a series of actions define a process. The generated machine language rules set into motion resulting in a completed piece of software, a virtual machine.
Aagas
05 | 2006Aagas was developed for C6's Stories in Motion performance of the Brighton Festival 2006. The software follows audio changes and creates a nebulous gas of ASCII characters that rapidly evolves and disperses as it responds to the music.
The show was featuring Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting, Fight Club writer Chuck Palahniuk and Phil Hartnoll of Longrange.
Fractal Cow
02 | 2006The Fractal Cow projects the contradictory vision of contemporary architecture that fractal spaces of nature are being replaced by the artificial fractal spaces of our society.
The conditions of our world's interconnected, hyperactive and dense space can be explored as we perceive it, with its inherent fractal dimensions and qualities exceeding the Cartesian concept of space that has dominated architecture and sculpture.
The underlying structure and labyrinthine networks of the city's architecture are artificial representations of the forms of nature and threaten to obliterate natural environments and vegetation at the same time.