The People
50 people listen to 'The People' by WB Yeats on a London street. Choose who listens and the soundtrack of voiceover, music and atmosphere they listen to.
Play The People
The People creates a series of 4 minute films that redefines the soundtrack in new media film.
Read The People Artistic Statement for more info.
Notable attention to date:
- December 2011
15th International Video Festival VIDEOMEDEJA, Novi Sad, Serbia
- November 2011
ACM Multimedia 2011 Conference, Arizona, USA
- February 2011
Japan Media Art Festival
- October 2010
VideoPhagy / VideoFagia, Toronto, Canada
- August 2010
Cologne OFF VI
online and various venues worldwide
- October 2010
Fonlad Digital, Web Art Show in UAVM Virtual Museum, Coimbra, Portugal
- May 2010
Flash in The Can Festival 2010, Toronto
Finalist in Best Sound category
Articles
The People Artistic Statement
An overview of The People and how its open and adaptable soundtrack affects the image and our response to it.
Jane As Text
An introduction to the literary structure, interface and thinking behind Jane.
Hackney Girl Artistic Statement
This is the Artistic Statement sent to galleries, media art and film festivals around the world. A good place to start for an overview of the work.
Hackney Girl Structure
A detailed overview of the narrative structure and how clips are constrained by probability values and ordered within certain restraints.
Notes Toward a Definition of Blipmedia
Written way back in April 2003 after the release of Hackney Girl, this is a whirlwind tour of the possibilities I encountered and contextualises the work in terms borrowed from Chaos Theory.
Jane Scenario Generator
Jane is a non-linear dialogue for two actors. Two friends, Jake and John, talk about their wives and a woman they share called Jane.
Start Jane Scenario Generator
This interface generates an infinite number of conversations based on what you choose from the master script. You can then change the dialogue by using the various line alternatives and then save it as a text file.
For a more details, read the Jane As Text.
Hackney Girl
Hackney Girl is a video diary about moving from London to Istanbul in 2002. It is a love-story and a road movie with cats, football and mosques.
Play Hackney Girl
It edits itself, which means you get a markedly different version each time you see it. Versions last 12-18 minutes depending on the shot selection
determined by the computer. See it twice to see what it is really all about.
For a more details, read the artistic statement.
The work has been in a dozen media art festivals around the world. It won the Best Narrative Award in Flash in The Can Festival 2004 in Canada. Notable attention to date:
- May 2009
Pictura Festival, Dordrecht, Holland
- April 2009
Visions in The Nunnery 2009, London, UK
- Dec 2008
CologneOFF (Online Film Festival) 'Here We Are'
- Oct 1-8 2008
Museum of Contemporary Art (MACZUL), Maracaibo Venezuela
- June 2008
Brunswick St Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia
- April 2008
FILE festival, part of 8 year retrospective show at Porto Alegre Brazil
- March 2008
Director’s Lounge, Berlin Germany
- Jan 2006
Discussed at length in Hypertext 3.0 by George P. Landow
- Nov 2005
FILE festival, Brazil, part of the hyper-cinemativity
(screening)
- June 2005
Javamuseum, Cologne, Ecstasy online showcase
exhibition, last in a series of 18
- April 2004
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
- Jan 2004
Stuttgart Filmwinter, online section
- Oct 2004
Media Art Festival Friesland, Holland
Artonica Bogota, Columbia
- May 2004
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
- April 2004
Flash In The Can Festival, Toronto, Canada
Award-winner in Story and Narrative Category
San Diego International Film Festival
- Sept 23 2003
Subject of talk given by invitation to the Interactive Cinema Research Group headed by Glorianna Davenport at MIT in Boston, USA.
Recommended reading for two of its courses:
- Experiences in Interactive Art
- Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative
- June 2003
Featured in art net portal, Rhizome.org
part of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY