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Click this picture! (sample/10
modules)
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Click this picture! (sample/10
modules)
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THE EXQUISITE MECHANISM OF SHIVERS is an interactive videodisc installation
which combines poetic text fragments, modular music segments and Image
sequences. The work incorporates a videodisc and computer to facilitate
the combination and re-combination of a set of specific word / Image
/ sound modules. Each module is presented as a word (or words) superimposed
over a related visual Image, accompanied by a musical fragment.
The viewer selects "Words"
from a poetic text on a Macintosh menu. These words function as modular
linguistic sentence fragments in a preconceived sentence template
which when selected, trigger corresponding Images and sound housed
on a videodisc. The computer facilitates the instantaneous substitution
of word / Image / sound segments within the sentence template structure
as derived through viewer choice. The viewer experiences the active
navigation of a series of changing poetic audio/visual sentences.
The work explores pluralistic meaning through the presentation of
material in continuously changing alternate contexts. Humor, visual
puns, word / Image / sound play, modular musical composition, 'canned
chance', as well as sence/nonsense relations are all explored.
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January 17 - February 10, 1994 [Finished]
ICC Gallery
