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Categories: Virtual Reality
Relevant passages:
Oliver Grau «Immersion and Interaction
From Circular Frescoes to Interactive Image Spaces»
Works by Charlotte Davies:
Karlheinz Stockhausen «Originals»
John Cage «Imaginary Landscape No. 1» Jean Tinguely »Homage to New York« Yvonne Rainer «Carriage Discreteness» Marcel Odenbach »Ich glaube, ich bin mir selbst verlorengegangen«
Charlotte Davies
«Éphémère»
«Ephémère» is an interactive fully-immersive visual/aural virtual artwork which furthers the work begun in «Osmose» (1995). The work is iconography evolved through Davies' long-standing practice as a painter, and, as in «Osmose,» is grounded in ‹nature› as metaphor: archetypal elements of root, rock, and stream etc. recur throughout. In «Ephémère» however, this iconographic repertoire is extended to include body organs, blood vessels and bones, suggesting a symbolic correspondence between the chthonic presences of the interior body and the subterranean earth.
«Ephémère» is structured vertically into three levels: landscape, earth, and interior body. (...)
During public installations of «Ephémère,» immersion takes place in a private chamber facing a large darkened space where museum visitors can witness the immersive performances as they take place in real time: aurally, as sound is generated by the participant’s behaviour within the work; and visually, as imagery generated from the immersant’s point-of-view is projected in real time onto a large-scale video screen. The shadow-silhouette of the immersant is projected live onto another screen, emphasizing the relationship between bodily presence and the immersive experience.
Char Davies
