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Installation Art

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The term ‘installation art’ has been used since the 1960s to designate art practice which explicitly aims to include and refer to its site and context as a crucial constituent of its meanings.

Battle of the Pyramids — Video

Battle of the Pyramids

Battle of the Pyramids was a robotic performance installation featuring reconfigured Elmo toys performing military manoeuvres in rigid choreographed formations. This seminal artwork explored and used sensor and wireless communication to create clusters of entities moving in exact synchronisation in response to a call to arms. The robot's movements emulated the rigid and postured fighting strategies of Napoleonic warfare. These strategies, employed in Napoleon's Egyptian campaign, were particularly idiosyncratic in Egypt where they were persistently performed without consideration of either the desert environment or the fighting strategies of the enemy. The work is a testimony to the tragic consequences of imperialism and the dangers, follies and sadness of a rationale for blind obedience that makes victims out of warriors. The piece was exhibited at Light Industries in Theater of Code curated by Christiane Paul in 2008. It was funded by the Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and Professional Staff Congress CUNY Research Grant.

Camouflage Town — Video

Camouflage Town

Camouflage Town is a pioneering telerobotic artwork. Camouflage Town is a decoy town constructed for the practice of military manoeuvres, war, and other scenarios of high drama. The robot, named "Kiru" , lived in the first-floor lobby and gallery of the Whitney Museum. As a telerobot, Kiru allowed remote visitors to communicate with physical visitors in the space. Remote visitors controlled the robot’s locomotion, pan, tilt and zoom of its camera over the web and spoke to museum visitors via text to speech and heard their responses. When autonomous, the robot relayed its history as the Librarian of Juxtapositions in Camouflage Town. This piece was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in DATA DYNAMICS curated by Christiane Paul in 2001. It was funded by the National Science Foundation Award, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Robotics and Theater, Robotic Renaissance Project and NSF Gateway Engineering Education Coalition at Cooper Union.

Decomposing Decay: a suite of speculative archives — Video

Decomposing Decay: a suite of speculative archives

Decomposing Decay documents a collaborative artistic research project exploring the sonic and spatial relationships between bodies and a decomposing building with unique acoustics, investigating transformation and non-hierarchical creation methods as part of Behrens and Elle's ongoing "You and Me" series.

Drawing on a Mother’s Experience IMAGE — Video

Drawing on a Mother’s Experience

A work that built on Baker’s experience of using autobiographical materials in performances such as My Cooking Competes, blending this with a commentary on domesticity, motherhood and art.

The Shadow Drone Project — Video

GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH

Back to Back Theatre creates new forms of contemporary performance imagined from the minds and experiences of a unique ensemble of actors with disabilities, giving voice to social and political issues that speak to all people. Based in the regional centre of Geelong, the company is one of Australia’s most globally recognised and respected contemporary theatre companies. Seeking to make a body of work that exists in repertoire across time, the company tours extensively locally, nationally, and internationally.

Kitchen Show — Video

Kitchen Show

A performance piece which saw Baker open her kitchen to the public and display a set of live actions, making performance from everyday tasks which nevertheless require skill, dexterity and endurance.

let’s take a walk – non zero one – Howard’s Journey — Video

let’s take a walk – non zero one – Howard’s Journey

let’s take a walk is an audio journey around the Barbican that starts with a question from a stranger hoping to take us out of our social bubble.

let’s take a walk – non zero one – Rubaiyath’s Journey — Video

let’s take a walk – non zero one – Rubaiyath’s Journey

let’s take a walk is an audio journey around the Barbican that starts with a question from a stranger who might take us out of our social bubble.

let’s take a walk – non zero one – Trailer — Video

let’s take a walk – non zero one – Trailer

let’s take a walk is an audio journey around the Barbican that starts with a question from a stranger who might take us out of our social bubble.

mountaineering – non zero one - first person POV recording (No Sound) — Video

mountaineering – non zero one - first person POV recording (No Sound)

mountaineering explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.

mountaineering – non zero one – trailer — Video

mountaineering – non zero one – trailer

mountaineering explores choice, interaction, and personal conversation with audience participants at the Roundhouse and Salisbury Playhouse.

NoMad is an Island — Video

NoMad is an Island

NoMad is an Island is an interactive robotic installation from the 1997 Ars Electronica Festival.

Payau # 2 Waterproof — Video

Payau # 2 Waterproof

Documentation of the dance performance of Payau # 2 Waterproof, staged in the Indonesia Dance Festival 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Salt from Drexciya Redux — Video

Salt from Drexciya Redux

Salt is an interactive installation which uses visual and audio media to take the user to the mythological realm of Drexciya.

Sayonara Diorama — Video

Sayonara Diorama

Sayonara Diorama is an electronic multimedia performance and original play with robots, live actors, video and remote participants.

small metal objects — Video

small metal objects

A public domain theatre show, part voyeuristic meditation, part urban thriller, it unfolds amidst the high volume pedestrian traffic of a public space.

Tableaux Vivant Dans Un Monde Parfait — Video

Tableaux Vivant Dans Un Monde Parfait

Tableaux Vivant Dans Un Monde Parfait was an interactive robotic installation. The work featured stereotypical “his” and “her” robots, directed by onsite users, which roamed a model home on the site of a factory manufacturing prefabricated homes in Brandenburg, Germany. The work was exhibited at Areale99 in Art in the Industrial Sector in 1999.

you'll see me [sailing in antarctica] — non zero one — Trailer — Video

you'll see me [sailing in antarctica] — non zero one — Trailer

A look at the science behind human perception through performance lectures, surround sound, hidden televisions, and sweeping panoramic views of the London skyline.

you’ll see me [sailing in antarctica] – non zero one – Full length Wide — Video

you’ll see me [sailing in antarctica] – non zero one – Full length Wide

A look at the science behind human perception through performance lectures, surround sound, hidden televisions, and sweeping panoramic views of the London skyline.

The Shadow Drone Project — Commentary

Reflections on Ganesh versus the Third Reich by back to back

by Calvert, Dave

Reflections on Ganesh versus the Third Reich by Dave Calvert discusses the work created by back to back.

small metal objects — Commentary

Reflections on small metal objects by back to back

by Calvert, Dave

Reflections on small metal objects by back to back.

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