probe (2008) -- Boris Debackere

21-02-08 - 22-03-08 · Exhibition ·

probe - noun, an unmanned exploratory spacecraft designed to transmit information about its environment.

Cinema is a virtual capsule with a projection screen as a window, which gives access to an audiovisual trip through time and space. As soon as the film starts the projection surface becomes invisible. It becomes the magic window of the cinema capsule that engages the whole body through the eyes and ears, and abducts it to another time and space. The film machine transforms reality by generating mental activity in the viewer: cinema as a dream machine for condensed experiences and emotions. probe is an interactive installation in which the relationship between the viewer and the screen is central. The position of the viewer determines the creation of generative sound and image that physically take the viewer on an audiovisual trip.

Boris Debackere (BE) is an artist and teaches at Transmedia and audiovisual department of the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas. As a media artist his main interests are the possible integration of different expression forms, with an emphasis on electronic sound and image. Most recent work and research is concentrated on translating and transforming the cinema concept into other forms like Live Cinema and audiovisual installations. His work includes vortices a reactive video installation, exposition Gorge(l) at the KMSKA. He collaborated with Brecht Debackere on the live cinema performance rotor (performed at several international media festivals, http://www.rotorscoop.net). Programming and sound design for Marnix de Nijs' installations Run Motherfucker Run (2004) and Beijing Accelerator (2006). Composition and sound design on Herman Asselberghs' films a.m./p.m. (2004), Proof of Life (2005), Capsular (2006) and Futur Antérieur (2007).

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• exhibition
• installation
• interactive
• generative
• experimental
• audiovisual
• sonicacts
• amsterdam