The context is an interactive virtual performance trough digital image of synthesis by means of a multi-media projection installation. It is about the interfaced performance “Human Body Dismemberment 3.0” which is used to illustrate, as a multi-media proposal, how the virtual performance can be used within a communication framework during an interactive urban intervention.
This kind of artistic shows reveals once again the claim of a media opening, that of the multi-media projection installation, in the public space. I wonder about the relation between the technological body, the projection-installation and the so-called "architecture for perception". The concept of a multi-media projection-installation always manifests itself, as an immersive and relational medium, a strong connection to the public place: in architectural spaces (representative buildings and historical monuments, in urban spaces (corporate towers, sky scrapers, transport's underground networks),/ in industrial complexes (factories).
The projection-installation used as a medium, as well as any multi-media proposal, indicates a complex functionality. It designates a framework, which is as much a communication] frame as a relational one. Using the principles of a visual art exhibition and the media's approach to connect the artist with his public, the context of a virtual performance makes sense. In this case, the work of art in virtual format, stored on a multi-media support and projected afterwards on a urban environment, opens discussions on the formal aspect of the process of communication in an artistic experiment/ addressing a public audience.. It asks the audience to select a trajectory in the immersive medium, to respond to the action of the performing structure, to participate in an encroached situation by soliciting a kind of interrelation, which relational arts truly need. This situation, established during the urban intervention via the multi-media projection-installation, is the result of current artistic practices. These practices are rendered here, by the inter-crossings between digital visual arts, media arts and performing processes. Therefore, we are at this instant, forced to think over the way the information is transmitted to the audience, and to completely reinvent the audience-artist equation. Weber speaks about an articulation, in our case in the urban environment, a double production of sense of the exposed object and its setting into the social nexus.
(c) 2006, Florian Liber, University of Montreal
see video performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvB19UQ6dss
This kind of artistic shows reveals once again the claim of a media opening, that of the multi-media projection installation, in the public space. I wonder about the relation between the technological body, the projection-installation and the so-called "architecture for perception". The concept of a multi-media projection-installation always manifests itself, as an immersive and relational medium, a strong connection to the public place: in architectural spaces (representative buildings and historical monuments, in urban spaces (corporate towers, sky scrapers, transport's underground networks),/ in industrial complexes (factories).
The projection-installation used as a medium, as well as any multi-media proposal, indicates a complex functionality. It designates a framework, which is as much a communication] frame as a relational one. Using the principles of a visual art exhibition and the media's approach to connect the artist with his public, the context of a virtual performance makes sense. In this case, the work of art in virtual format, stored on a multi-media support and projected afterwards on a urban environment, opens discussions on the formal aspect of the process of communication in an artistic experiment/ addressing a public audience.. It asks the audience to select a trajectory in the immersive medium, to respond to the action of the performing structure, to participate in an encroached situation by soliciting a kind of interrelation, which relational arts truly need. This situation, established during the urban intervention via the multi-media projection-installation, is the result of current artistic practices. These practices are rendered here, by the inter-crossings between digital visual arts, media arts and performing processes. Therefore, we are at this instant, forced to think over the way the information is transmitted to the audience, and to completely reinvent the audience-artist equation. Weber speaks about an articulation, in our case in the urban environment, a double production of sense of the exposed object and its setting into the social nexus.
(c) 2006, Florian Liber, University of Montreal
see video performance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvB19UQ6dss

