Projects

RE:(T[P|RO])SPECTIVE: Talan Memmott exhibition from Feb 14th to Feb 24th

Lectures on Art and Technology
Yvonne Spielman & Jane Prophet
Feb 17th, 3 - 5 pm, Skiles 02

BioMorphic Typography is Prof. Gromala's term for a family of fonts that respond, in real-time, to a user's changing physical states, as measured by a biofeedback device. Rather than one typeface, it is a postmodern pastiche of many different fonts that are continually morphing. So, for example, the font "throbs" as the user's/writer's heart beats. In this way, users become aware of their autonomic states. Biomorphic Typography has been exhibited worldwide and has aired on CNN and the BBC.

Three Angry Men (TAM) is a single-narrative, multiple point-of-view augmented reality, in which the viewer/user becomes a participant in an abridged version of "Twelve Angry Men." In TAM, the user witnesses the drama from the viewpoint of one of three jurors, and her perception of the scene reflects the expectations, beliefs, and prejudices of that juror. The user sits in one chair in a physical space representing the jury room. Through the head-worn display she can see two other virtual jurors (as texture-mapped video) occupying other chairs in the room. The user herself hears the words of the third juror, whose seat she is occupying. At any time the user can get up, move to another chair, and assume the point of view (POV) of another juror.

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Prema Murthy’s digital prints and animations explore the dynamics of conflict, transformation and change in our lives. Her iconographic landscapes are appropriated from early vector-based arcade games that she played in her youth. Working against the military origins of video games, she mines their expressive potential, exploring how fantasy and role play enable us to think beyond our physical and mental boundaries. Inspired by aesthetic traditions as diverse as Baroque architecture and Indo-Tibetan tangka paintings, these delicate and playful works are, as Murthy describes them, “located in a place somewhere between collective memory and personal history”.

Images from recent exhibition

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At cinema’s inception, there was a sense of magic in the ability to create motion pictures from a series of still images that most people take for granted today. Timecode is an immersive 3D video installation that allows viewers to re-approach and deconstruct the illusion of the moving picture by interactively controlling the flow of time.