Hospitalized (2000)
Hospitailized was first the Artists Animation I created. It was a multi channel 6 screen installtion with 2 audio stereo fields. Softimage was the original 3D package I used. I remember scrolling and rotating the 3D camera for the first time within its interface, and experiencing the physical effects of Vertigo as though I was falling through physical space. It was a very powerful and unexpected experience. This in unison with my ealier Paintings of transitioning across multiple Canvas borders, and my Uso | Usterno street works, led to the idea of creating liminal works that Perceptually adjoined Physical and Digital spaces.
A Puck (Hospitalized) and a Ball (Buffer Screw) are continuously passed through devices in loop cycles, whilst the audio stereo fields plot there placement. The spacing of the screens in the real world becomes a neccesity for the movements to be percpetually completed, and in this way both spaces merge and collapse into a new space, in a similar mode to how Sergei Eisenstein’s third image works.
The work was Presented in single screen format on the giant Global Multimedia Interface (2001), Leicester Square, for 6 months, and also at Cultural festivals, inlcuding the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (2002). Each time I watched an audience viewing I noticed heads moving in unison, or a few tracing movements with there finger. It looked as if they were under some form of control. It reminded me of original starting point for this project, some years earlier.
One of the Audience responses to this work was that it reminded them of Buddhist theories, that we are all endlessly cycling in loops of suffering, until we find a mode or exit to trascend the system.
* Sound Design by Paul. D. Chauncy
A Puck (Hospitalized) and a Ball (Buffer Screw) are continuously passed through devices in loop cycles, whilst the audio stereo fields plot there placement. The spacing of the screens in the real world becomes a neccesity for the movements to be percpetually completed, and in this way both spaces merge and collapse into a new space, in a similar mode to how Sergei Eisenstein’s third image works.
The work was Presented in single screen format on the giant Global Multimedia Interface (2001), Leicester Square, for 6 months, and also at Cultural festivals, inlcuding the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry (2002). Each time I watched an audience viewing I noticed heads moving in unison, or a few tracing movements with there finger. It looked as if they were under some form of control. It reminded me of original starting point for this project, some years earlier.
One of the Audience responses to this work was that it reminded them of Buddhist theories, that we are all endlessly cycling in loops of suffering, until we find a mode or exit to trascend the system.
* Sound Design by Paul. D. Chauncy
