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Interactive Installations : Body Language (1984-6)
Financially assisted by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council


hand-built cameras, processor for Body Language (1984)

Body Language represents the second generation of interactive sound installations I created.The installation used three hand-built low-resolution (8x8 pixels) video cameras (see image above) to observe a 5 metre by 5 metre space. The images from the cameras are digitized by a system that used 3 6502 processors in parallel. This information about motion was relayed to an Apple ][ computer. The computer searched for movements in these images, analysed them and created sounds in response, simultaneous to the movement itself. The sounds were produced by custom software running on a Mountain Hardware Digital synthesizer sitting in the Apple ][. Any movements made by people within the space create sounds whose qualities reflected the qualities of the movements. (Next)


History (evolved from Reflexions in mid 1984)
1984

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada.

1985
"ElectroCulture", ArtCulture Resource Center, Toronto, Canada.
Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, USA.
McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada.
A Space, Toronto, Canada.

1986
National Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, Canada.
MacDonald-Stewart Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada. 


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