Melt, 2002, in collaboration with Nicholas Stedman
Telematic Interactive Installation

Video documenation

Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing France/ The Banff Center, Banff Alberta

 Melt transforms the gesture of touch to heat that can felt half way around the world. A table with embedded sensors registers the touch of the gallery visters in France, simultaneously it is transferred and translated through the Internet and activates heat sensors embedded in a block of ice in Canada. The ice traces the presence of the visitors through melting and refreezing. The image of the ice melting can be seen with a live web stream projected in the space in France
so the visiter can see their impact.

Articles and Reviews:

Turbulance Blog

Nural.it

Referenced: Laboratory 'Les Formes de l'interactivité', Published by Haute école d'arts et design, Geneva, Swiss
Jean-Louis Boissier, Daniel Pinkas

Weep
Public Sound Installation Commission
Location: Brugge Cultural Center, June 14, 2002 - August 31, 2002
.wav festival Brugge, Cultural Captial of Europe 2002

At the base of the weeping willow situated by the canal, tables fill the coffee shop terrace of the cultural center, over looking a growing line up of tourists waiting by the dock for their boat cruise tour of Brugge.
Using the two wood tables next to the tree as speakers, a couple is heard discussing a story of the weeping willow.
The couple comment on the extent to which she cries, how lonely she is and how tourists gaze at her just to pass and simply float on her tears for a better view of other things. They discuss how her out reached arms touch the water, as the tourists sit huddled together in the line up and in boats, and how in summer she goes green with envy.
The extent of the conversation from tactile table is about 5 to 10 minutes and plays every hour

Nape 2002; Dual sided interactive installation

Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains

Video documenation

In “Nape” the viewer is confronted with a cross section of the throat of a female giant. The viewer sees a twisted neck, a pale completion, and pink lips that speaks with white breath. Her breath explains that she is cold, and that the space is cold. As viewer passes behind the screen, the air on the nape of her neck are amplified, gently swaying the figure's hair and moves in relation to where the viewer is in the space. As more viewers gather the movement of the hair blows between the viewers creating a relationship between viewers in the space and to the body of the mythic figure.

Presented:

Centre Culturel Du Mans, France, January 2003
Le Fresnoy, Studio National Des Arts Contemporains, June 2002; Premiere

Articles:

Figaro Newspaper 2002, Article by Michel Nuridsany

Beax Arts Magazine2002

Panorama Catalogue 2002

Threaded White, 1999
Interactive Video Installation

Video documenation

As viewers first enter the gallery, they notice a blank white projection. On a closer inspection of the projection, a knife appears and slowly begins to dissect the screen from behind. The closer the viewer goes to the screen, the deeper and higher the cut. As the viewer leaves the gallery, the screen begins to stitch itself up, reconstructing the hole made by the viewer. If the viewer sees this, and returns to the screen, the seam begins to unravel.
If the viewer does not act, there is no image and the screen will disapper back to white.

Presention and Articles:

Passage De Retz, Paris France, September 2002 (Catalogue Available)

Horizon Zero: Invent issue; Synthetic Sensualism

InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, June 1999