a new work in september 2013

 

a work in response to an invitation from node 56 to be part of their september 2013 fund raiser.

an image of many coloured vertical lines

on offer to me is a space within the drop inn in derwent street, belper. what do i do?

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well firstly i say yes to the invitation.  definitely a case of say yes and then have a think about what to do.  it wasn’t as vague as this might appear though.  at the time of the invitation i had been playing with an app i’d located that put forward the proposition of audience interaction with the visual content of a projection screen.

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i’ve long hankered after making something that had a predominantly visual output and the space in the drop inn is all about watching the screen.

 

… i’ve set out to make something that can be interacted with by an iphone, ipod touch and quite probably an ipad too.

 

a black frame with several small coloured circles

 

 

what i really like about the app that i’ve found is that it’s possible to serve the devices in the space with the controls.  there is a small amount of initial setting up to do and i’m still experimenting with what we’ll need to do.

 

and here’s the excitement factor … for this work is an experiment.

 

what do we see when the visuals on screen are controlled by the audience ?