System Maintenance
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Category:
ARTWORK
Type:
documentation / installation art / interactive art
Keywords:
closed-circuit / digital / installation / interactive / media art / reality / sculpture / viewpoint / virtual reality
Creation Date:
1998
Description:
System Maintenance challenges ideas of interaction by creating three simultaneous environments for the viewer to navigate. A furnished room and two precise models (one physical, one digital) vie for dominance. Video cameras relay images of the real, model and ‘virtual’ room, which are combined into a single video projection. By moving the furniture and viewpoint of each of the three rooms, visitors can match (or mismatch) the components of the rooms as they appear in the projected image. The video projection - in effect, a ‘fourth room’ - becomes the site of some striking confusions of scale, as hands, bodies and gadgets mingle in the same hybrid space. (...) (P.H.)
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Original Title (English):
System Maintenance
Additional Information:
The work was developed for Photo 98 - UK Year of Photography and Electronic Image, with the support of The University of Hull - Department of Computer Science, and University of Lincolnshire and Humberside - School of Architecture.
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