April 19, 2005
Intimate Transactions
Embodied Experience For Two people in Two Locations
Keith Armstrong and the Transmute Collective invite you to book your own personal 1/2hr slot for the Australian Premiere of Intimate Transactions, a groundbreaking embodied, interactive experience for two people in two networked locations. Members of the public can experience Intimate Transactions for one week at QUT Creative Industries Precinct Brisbane and ACMI Melbourne commencing April 25 (details below).
The two participants will enter a space at each location that is equipped with a touch sensitive physical interface called a Bodyshelf, embedded with sensors that detect body movement and shifting of body weight. Before getting onto the Bodyshelf, each participant puts on a wearable device that passes gentle vibrations into their stomachs, enabling them to sense vibrations of different frequencies and intensities.
Each body movement influences an evolving world created from digital imagery and multi-channel sound, allowing the participants' bodies to become aware of the other's movements, despite the fact that they are geographically separated and cannot actually see or hear each other. Intimate Transactions is an ambitious new work from the renowned Australian Transmute Collective and collaborators, a group of internationally recognised media artists, performers, sound artists, programmers, scientists and furniture/interface designer.
The Melbourne/Brisbane event will be the Australian premiere of the work, following its international premiere at the New Territories International National Review of Live Art in Glasgow in February. ACMI Senior Curator Alessio Cavallaro said, "Intimate Transactions is an ingenious work that exemplifies both the fascinating developments in interactive moving image arts in Australia, and ACMI's leading role in introducing such innovative projects to broader audiences. Significantly, Intimate Transactions also demonstrates the importance
of ACMI's partnerships with artists and research centres to extend the creative application of new technologies and delivery systems."
The work has been developed in collaboration with the Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), QUT Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC), the RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Lab, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. Intimate Transactions will be presented simultaneously between the Queensland University of Technology Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane, and ACMI, Melbourne. It is a featured work of the Australian Innovation Festival.
Dates: 25 April - 1 May 2005
Time: Mon 25th : 12pm=965.30pm,
Tues 26th =96 Sun 1st 10am=965.30pm
Admission Free - BUT Bookings Essential - Book your own personal 1/2hr slot at each venue.
Locations:
In Brisbane @ The block, Creative Industries Precinct, Cnr of Kelvin Grove Rd and Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
FOR BOOKING ph. 07 3864 5495 e: kb.harding @ qut.edu.au
In Melbourne Screen Pit, Ground Floor, Australian Centre for the Moving Image at Federation Square, Flinders St, Melbourne
FOR BOOKING ph. 03 8663 2574
Posted by jo at April 19, 2005 09:48 AM
