- Come Closer - Squidsoup with Cliff Randell
-
- Exhibition
Showroom 5
24-25 March | 11am - 5pm
Come Closer is a digital installation that combines wearable technology and collaborative interaction in an immersive audiovisual experience.
Essentially an exploration of the boundaries of personal space, the piece allows visitors to collaborate through their movement and relative position.
The projection is an abstract mirror, a reflection of real space in virtual space showing each person as they move. Sounds reflect the connections between the people involved - the closer people are, the stronger the connection.
The nearer people get to each other, the more acutely aware of each other's presence they become. This may be playful, comforting or disquieting. With more people in a room, complex relationships and harmonies can begin to form and disappear, allowing scope for cooperation and confrontation, intimacy and rejection. As people discover these relationships, they begin to probe them, and question these boundaries. They begin to 'play the space', like an instrument, in collaborative and creative ways.
squidsoup's work over the last few years has focused on a few related themes: collaborative and creative forms of interaction; the aesthetics of virtual space and the relationships between physical space, virtual space and interactive sonic composition. Related projects are available at
Come Closer is a squidsoup project, developed with funds from the Clark Digital Bursary and Arts Council England (Grants for the Arts).
Initial development supported by Watershed Media Centre, Mobile Bristol, JA Clark Charitable Trust, Arts Council England and The University of the West of England.
Further development funded by Arts Council England and Watershed Media Centre.
Positioning technologies developed by Cliff Randell, University of Bristol.
