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Futurevisual Lounge

Three special screening programmes in the relaxed setting of the Futurevisual Lounge.

Futurevisions
Direct from Berlin: Transmediale.07
Futurevisual Live Preview
Futurevisual Installations

Futurevisual
Installations

LoVid - NEAR=FAR (So Near and Yet So Far Away) (USA, 2007)

Produced In Absentia for Futuresonic 2007, NEAR=FAR (So Near and Yet So Far Away) is a Virtual Unreality project by LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus). In an installation in Manchester, flat 2D abstract video is viewed through a lo-fi binocular tube constructed from cardboard, while LoVid's Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus are themselves represented by life-size cardboard cut-outs covered in printed colour scans of the artists dressed in VideoWear. Learn more

Kirk Woolford - Will.0.w1sp (US/UK, 2006)

Will.0.W1sp is an interactive installation exploring our ability to recognise human motion without human form. It uses particle systems to create characters or 'whisps' with their own drifting, flowing movement, but which also follow digitised human movements. If visitors move quickly in the space, the particle flow becomes erratic. If visitors move suddenly they explode.
www.bhaptic.net/will0_proj.html

Ray Lee - Siren (UK, 2004-7)

'Siren' is a whirling, spinning spectacle of mechanical movement, electronic sound and light. Twenty-nine large metal tripods, up to 3m tall, have rotating arms that spin around, powered by electric motors. Hand built electronic tone generators power loudspeakers at the end of each arm creating an extraordinary sonic texture of pulsing electronic drones. Small LED's at the end of the arms trace circles of light as the arms rapidly rotate creating a compelling visual image. Ray Lee is an artist, composer and performer whose work investigates his fascination with the hidden world of electro-magnetic radiation. Presented at Victoria Baths.

Catherine-Anne Lee - Sonorous Form (UK, 2006)

Sonorous Form is an 8-monitor screen based audiovisual installation, investigating sound as a physical movement of energy; a microcosm of the way energy travels through space. The piece uses the sound of a cello playing the notes from the Cmajor scale; each screen displays the effect of one note as it plays through the water. The result is a completely random audiovisual performance.

Joanie Lemercier - Rhythmic Architechture (France, 2007)

Lemercier's clever light-sculpture installation projects onto new 'urban furniture environments'. The work was first shown in 2007 at the Transmediale.07 festival in Berlin. www.antivj.com

Free
All Futurevisual Installations are presented in the unique gallery space of Contact foyer, Thurs - Sat, 10am - 8pm, with the exception of Siren by Ray Lee, which is presented at Victoria Baths concurrently with the SoundNetwork and Dull Roar events.

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