ReACTOR © Sarah Kenderdine & Jeffrey Shaw
To explicitly articulate the conjunction between the real and virtual spaces in this work, the viewer’s virtual torch beams penetrate through the container and illuminate other viewers who are standing opposite them on other sides of the installation. This augmented reality is achieved using infra-red cameras that are positioned on each screen pointing at its respective torch operators, and the video images are rendered in real time onto each viewer’s screen so as to create the semblance of illuminating the persons opposite them. The resulting ambiguity experienced between the actual and rendered reality of the viewers’ presences in this installation, reinforce the perceptual and psychological tensions between ‘self’ and ‘other’.
UNMAKEABLELOVE and DOUBLE DISTRICT the first two works especially designed for the ReACTOR pemiered October / November 2008 as part of the exhibition "eLandscape" of eArts festival in Shanghai (China).
FRAGMENTATION (after Lipsynch) by Robert Lepage is the third project for the ReACTOR, premiered April 2011.
© Sarah Kenderdine & Jeffrey Shaw 2008
Design consultant: Paul Bourke
Engineering design and realization: Nelissen Dekorbouw
Projectors: F20SX+ kindly sponsored by Projectiondesign
Developed with the generous support of Museum Victoria, the UNSW iCinema Centre and EPIDEMIC.