Theme: Interactivity

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Roy Ascott, Telematic Embrace
Since the 1960s, Roy Ascott has been producing media installations and publishing essays highlighting the theoretical implications of his work.

Philip Beesley et Diane Willow, Reflexive Membranes
Reflexive Membranes will spawn an enormous hybrid fabric made up of elements structured according to recursive geometry.

Jim Campbell
Originally a filmmaker, Campbell turned to science after having worked for several years on a personally difficult film on mental illness.

Sandro Canavezzi de Abreu, VOID
The interactive installation VOID has evolved from a prototype of a physical interface called M(n)EMO, which Canavezzi devised within a residency at the Podewil contemporary art centre in Berlin.

Sandro Canavezzi de Abreu
Sandro Canavezzi de Abreu has studied architecture and urbanism at the University of São Carlos in Brazil and worked as an architect.

Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)
The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), founded in 1964, is one of India's best-known independent research institutes.

Luc Courchesne, Paysage n° 1 (Landscape One)
Landscape One is an interactive video panorama for multiple users on which video images of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal are projected.

Luc Courchesne, The Visitor: Living by Numbers
The Visitor draws on the research conducted by Courchesne in image projection, which led to the creation of his Panoscope 360º.

Sharon Daniel
Sharon Daniel is a video and new media artist working in database aesthetics and interface design.

Toni Dove
Since the early 1990s, she has produced works that redefine the form of the traditional narrative through the use of interactive components.

Toni Dove, Spectropia: A Ghost Story on the Infinite Deferral of Desire
Spectropia is a feature film including interactive components and created as a theatrical performance.

Alan Dunning, Representations of the Body in Liquid Media Spaces
A collaborative effort with leading scientists, the Einstein Brain Project comprises a series of immersive environments.

Jessica Field
After studying new media at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) in Toronto, Canada, Jessica Field pursued her interests in electronic arts and in micro-controller programming.

Jessica Field, Semiotic Investigation into Cybernetic Behaviour (SICB)
Field is currently extending her interest in robotics by focusing on the psychology of human behaviour.

FoAM
Conceived in 2000 and based in Brussels, Belgium, FoAM develops remote and local collaborations within a large network of artists, scientists and researchers.

Marc Fournel, Tontauben
Tontauben is an interactive instrument for creating sound and will be used in installations and performances.

Jean Gagnon, Blind Date in Cyberspace or the Figure that Speaks
Luc Courchesne has been interested in portraiture for a long time. Then, it was almost a natural thing for Courchesne to get involved with interactive portraiture.

Usman Haque
The London-based architect and artist Usman Haque designs interactive architectural systems and is interested in the ways that people relate to each other and to their surrounding space.

Lynn Hershman, Agent Ruby
Lynn Hershman has examined the complex conditions at the core of emerging subjectivity since the 1970s.

Natalie Jeremijenko, OOZ
Unlike a traditional zoo, OOZ is a place where animals remain by choice, a zoo without cages.

George Legrady
George Legrady was born in 1950 in Budapest, Hungary. In 1956, after the Soviet invasion of his country, his family immigrated to Canada where they settled in Montreal.

Golan Levin, Messa di Voce
For some time now, Golan Levin has taken an interest in producing different types of images and sounds in an unconventional way.

Golan Levin
Golan Levin is an artist, composer and designer whose work focuses on new modes of interactive audiovisual expression.

Jessica Loseby, views from the ground floor
views from the ground floor is a refined combination of the different elements brought into play in the elaboration of the work ? visual, audio, and textual.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Well known for his large-scale, interactive installations in public spaces, he has participated in many important events since 1990.

Chico MacMurtrie, Skeletal Reflections
Since 1992, Chico MacMurtrie and Amorphic Robot Works have conceived and created more than 250 abstract or anthropomorphic mechanical sculptures.

National Gallery of Canada, Éphémère by Char Davies
Éphémère by Char Davies premiered at the National Gallery of Canada in 1998 in a solo exhibition partly funded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation.

Marie-Claude Poulin and Martin Kusch, schème
To investigate potential interactions between the body in motion and the digital image, artists Martin Kusch and Marie-Claude Poulin are developing a project that combines dance, performance and new digital media.

Proboscis, Urban Tapestries
Urban Tapestries is a transdisciplinary research project. The project team comprises a range of skills and backgrounds.

David Rokeby
David Rokeby is an interactive sound and video installation artist based in Toronto, Canada.

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86 audiovisual documents

Philip Bessley, Orgone Reef, 2003.

Orgone Reef is a hovering mass that explores a new kind of near-living architectural skin that expands and responds to viewers using a myriad of miniature interlinked elements.

Courtesy of the artist.

Elizabeth Vander Zaag, Talk Nice, 1999-2000.

Still image taken from Talk Nice (video).

Courtesy of the artist.

Martin Kusch and Marie-Claude Poulin, schème, 2001

Martin Kusch and Marie-Claude Poulin, schème, Fixed body with a "gone" head, physically present but mentally elsewhere, 2001.

Choreography with interactive devices.
Interpreted by Marie-Claude Poulin during a residency at L'Agora de la Danse, Montreal, 2001.

Photo: Martin Kusch and Johan Versteegh.
Courtesy of kondition pluriel.

Chico MacMurtrie, Skeletal Reflections, 2003.

Courtesy of Chico MacMurtrie and Amorphic Robot Works.

Natalie Jeremijenko, Robotic Geese, 2003.

Plastic, electronic components, video camera.

Photo: Adat. Courtesy of Natalie Jeremijenko.

Toni Dove, Artificial Changelings, 1998

Toni Dove, Artificial Changelings, 1998.

Interactive laser disk and sound installation using video motion sensing. Video still of the installation Artificial Changelings, 1998. Photo: DP Einar Westerlund, (copositing) J.J. Gifford.

Courtesy of the artist.

Golan Levin and Paul Debevec, Rouen Revisited, 1996.

Daytime facade of the Rouen Cathedral, in an image synthesized from street-level photographs re-rendered from a new point of view.

Courtesy of Golan Levin and Paul Debevec.

Philip Beesley, Orgone Reef, 2003.

Orgone Reef was produced using laser cutting direct from digital models and is currently installed at the University of Manitoba.

Courtesy of the artist.

Philip Beesley, Orgone Reef, 2003.

Courtesy of the artist.

Philip Beesley and Diane Willow, Orgone Reef, 2003.

Arrays of proximity sensors linked to vibrating actuators were fitted to a version of Orgone Reef mounted at Haystack Mountain School for the Crafts at The Digital and the Hand symposium in 2002 in collaboration with Diane Willow. These elements employ the 'cricket' microprocessor technology developed by MIT's Media Lab, allowing dense accretion of miniature networks.

Courtesy of the artists.

Sandro Canavezzi de Abreu, M(n)EMO, a topological endoscopies into someone else's dream, 2002.

Prosthesis with camera and microphone.

Courtesy of the artist.

Sandro Canavezzi de Abreu, M(n)EMO, a topological endoscopies into someone else's dream, 2002.

Interactive installation, sphere and prosthesis.

Courtesy of the artist.