Blowup
2008. Interactive performance and installation artwork by Simon Biggs & Sue Hawksley.
Blowup is an interactive installation environment for public interaction and choreographed performance. The movement of performers/viewers is acquired and articulated in real time employing software custom written by Simon Biggs with Josh Nimoy. The tracked movement data is used to manipulate, fragment, distort and composite the live video material, which is projected co-located with the performers/viewers, in accordance with aspects of their movement. Stillness causes the images to blow up.
Blowup's title references Antonioni's film of the same name, and draws on the final scene of another of his films, Zabriskie Point.
CREDITS
- Visual artist: Simon Biggs.
- Choreography: Sue Hawksley.
- Software development: Josh Nimoy.
- Performers: Sue Hawksley, Cat Casbon (Glasgow), Freya Jeffs (Shetland).
- R & D supported by a New Media Scotland Alt-w award and a choreographic residency at Dance Base, Edinburgh (with dancer Said Dakash).
PERFORMANCES & PRESENTATIONS
- Exhibition & performance: Alt-w: New Directions in Scottish Digital Culture - CCA, Glasgow, 2008.
- Exhibition & performance: Shetland Arts Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland, 2011.
VIDEO
WRITING
- ✐ Ravetto-Biagioli, K. (2019) Digital Uncanny. Oxford University Press: New York, NY.
- a book by Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli in which she discusses Blowup.