[chisigmail] Bystander Immersive Video Installation, Exhibiting September 5-8

[Susan.Hansen at csiro.au]

Hi Everyone,

For those of you who have been involved in CHISIG for a while, you may remember a fascinating presentation given by Ross Gibson and Toni Robertson for a CHISIG event on the Bystander Project titled, "Finding Information, Emotion and Imagination in Pictorial Archives". At the time, many people expressed interest in seeing this installation when it was completed. I am very happy to let you know that the installation is now open to be experienced by the public and can be viewed from September 5 to 8 in Sydney.

This project is a nice example of a successful collaboration between artists, engineers and people focussing on user experience, and I would highly recommend you check out this installation if you get the chance. 

Details are below, including the original summary of the 2005 talk.

Bystander - Ross Gibson & Kate Richards

When: Wednesday September 5 - Saturday September 8

Time: 12pm - 8pm

Where: Performance Space at Carriageworks
	245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh (next to Surry Hills)

Cost: Free

Description (as stated on the Bystander postcards): Bystander is an immersive video installation, the latest work in Gibson and Richards' Life After Wartime suite based on historic Sydney scene-of-crime images and Gibson's texts. In Bystander a spirit-world is composed in response to the audience's presence, creating a variable, volatile environment of audiovisual narratives. It's a kind of performative story-generator, haunted by Sydney's recent past and buffeted by spirit weather. The result is a compelling, sensual and kinaesethetic witnessing of our city's myriad stories.

www.lifeafterwartime.com

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2005 NSW CHISIG talk summary (for those interested..) 'Finding Information, Emotion and Imagination in Pictorial Archives'

Summary
'The Bystander Field' is a 360 degree interactive audio-visual environment in which 'visitors' or 'investigators' or 'curators' stand and walk to contemplate prescribed meanings as well as possible meanings and emotions pertaining to large picture archives.  Part evolving movie, part haunted room and part  narrative engine, the environment is designed to draw a kind of 'power' from images in ways that most conventional search&display databases do not consider. The picture archive that we are working with in this iteration of the project is an extraordinary collection of crime scene photographs licensed from the NSW Police Service. 

'Bystander' is being developed by a team whose individual members come from several different disciplines. New members with backgrounds in user-centred design approaches and methods joined an established collaboration of artists in the project team. The motivation was to investigate how the methods, tools and techniques developed to support user-centred technology design methods might be made useful in designing the potential interaction and experiential opportunities within a multi-user, immersive, interactive environment. The presenters will talk about the objectives and surprises of the practice-based and art-related research and design methods that we've used throughout. There will also be lots of pictures and movies.

Ross Gibson
Research Professor in New Media & Digital Culture
UTS.

Toni Robertson
Associate Professor in Human Computer Interaction
UTS
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Feel free to bring your friends and family. Enjoy!

Susan


> Susan Hansen

Former NSW Representative for CHISIG

> Phone: +612 9372 4675

> Mobile: +61 414 578 727

> Email: nswrep at chisig.org

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