Swarm - interactive art installation

Darryn and Jimmy present Swarm, an interactive digital media installation on the Big Screen in Federation Square Melbourne. Screening Thursdays through March 2010.

"Swarm is fiction disguised as reality. Using sophisticated technical wizardry, this interactive screen-based work invokes the wonder and curiosity of childhood, re-imagining Federation Square as an urban sanctuary for swarms of fluttering butterflies.

Devised and created by Adelaide-based artist Jimmy McGilchrist and programmer Darryn van Someren, this Next Wave Time Lapse work for March uses human recognition technology and the Fed Cam live feed to create extraordinarily graceful and surreal effects. As audience members stand motionless in Federation Square, virtual butterflies will gravitate towards their on-screen image swarming around them. As the viewer moves suddenly within the frame, the butterflies will dissipate, following them for a time before fluttering off into the distance."

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