I create site-specific video projection and directional sound installations that challenge the way in which the audience believe they experience “reality”. I do this through re-projecting video and directional sound directly back upon a space, creating an immersive environment, animated with constantly changing light and shadow, manipulated by the presence of virtual characters who inhabit the space.

When presented with an environment that feels real, yet is in fact purely re-projected video and sound, the observer enters into a process of questioning what it is they have actually experienced – virtual or real?

Within this installation work, the audience are free to move around, and at times, enter the installation within the same door as the video projected character enters. The point at which the two presences collide, something very strange occurs and there is a further moment of disorientation as to which presence is real, and which is virtual.

Through collaborating with the students on the interactive design course, I would like to explore, what could happen when the projected virtual environment reacts in real time to the presence of the “live” human.

The AA2A scheme would provide an invaluable opportunity for me to explore this line of enquiry, offering me the skills, space and time, and also to provide a dialogue between myself and the students, and teaching staff.

For the last 6 years I have worked internationally, establishing my professional practice whilst learning how to balance a life of professional creative practice and working to live. I see this opportunity as an exciting prospect and the time spent collaborating with the students will be one of discovery and exploration, an experience which will be explored both ways – both for the benefit of interactive designer and also for myself, the visual artist.

'Anon 2002'
still image (documentation of video projection & sound installation