Keyword Index
Selected keyword: embodiment
Work: Airground
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Airgrounds were a new genre of air structures comprising soft, responsive architectures the public could interact with. At the Brighton Festival a pyramid-shaped inflatable with a transparent...
Work: Alpevent
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: In the Alpevent white polythene tubing was slowly inflated inside a somewhat confined space. The people there dragged and wove the tubing around their bodies, but expanding plastic gradually pushed...
Work: Book Plumbing
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: This was a mixed-media installation using books in various ways, a material which John Latham was using extensively in his artistic practise at this time. One of the centerpieces was a performance...
Work: Cushion
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: An over-sized inflatable cushion was put into urban locations so that passers by could play with it.
Work: Ecorces
Artist: Scenocosme, Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt -
Comment: Ecorces (barks)
Visual and sonorous interactive artwork
interrelations between human heat and flesh of wood
The interactive artwork " Ecorces" invites to virtually hollow out memories and layers...
Work: Exchange Fields
Artist: Seaman, Bill
Comment: Exchange Fields (2000), commissioned by the Vision Ruhr Exhibition in Dortmund Germany, incorporates the recorded dance and choreography of Regina van Berkel. The programmer Gideon May also became...
Work: Fugitive
Artist: Penny, Simon
Comment: Fugitive is an interactive artwork which (via a machine vision system) interprets gross bodily movement as an indicator of "mood". The user moves through an impressionistic visual experience based in...
Work: Pneutube
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: A large transparent inflatable tube the public could enter and which, depending on the context of presentation, functioned as an expanded cinema and performance environment, playful interactive space...
Work: The Telepresence Garment
Artist: Kac, Eduardo
Comment: I first conceived the Telepresence Garment in 1995 to investigate the notion of the mediascape as an expanded cloth; i.e., to consider wireless networking as a new fabric that envelops the body. The...
Work: Waterwalk
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Waterwalk was a 3-metre-high tetrahedron shaped balloon made from transparent (and sometimes coloured) plastic. A watertight zip allowed people to enter and be sealed inside. When this...
Work: Waterwalk Tube
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: An inflatable tube made from transparent plastic, 250 metres long and 3 metres in diameter, was placed over the Mach lake connecting its opposite banks. This air-filled floating bridge had airlock...