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"Neo Shamanism"
Interactive video installation
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1998
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Tjebbe
VAN TIJEN , Fred GALES
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The work reviews historicaly diffrent forms of shamanism--one could
say a non-electronic form of telepresence--. Fibre information systems
from the Inca age 'quipu' to glass fibre cables mark the space in
which a big drum is standing as the main interface. Two other interactive
installations give the oppurtunity to relate information on the Internet
on shamanism with stone age creation myths.
The drum is not a 'mock up' but a real percussion instrument with
a special prepared drumhead that serves also as a projection screen.
Alsothere are the sixteen pictograms, printed on the drumhead at regular
intervals around the border. The pictograms represent the different
sequences. By hitting a pictogram with the (special) drumstick a sequence
is choosen. The first image will be an enlargment of the pictogram
with a spoken short title of the sequence. The sequences are long
picture collages that scroll in diffrent directions through the circular
space of the drumhead and have a lengh that varies between one and
two minutes. At any moment the user can switch to another sequence.
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April 24 (Fri.) - June 21 (Sun.), 1998 [Finished]
Gallery A, D 
