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txOom
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PROJECT
NAME:
txOom
FoAm (Belgium/International)
Date:
Sunday December 1st to
Sunday December 8th 2002
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Form:
Installation
Venue:
Hippodrome Circus Space,
Great Yarmouth
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ARTISTIC
COLLABORATORS:
Cocky Eek, Nik Gaffney, Mathias Gmachl,
Athanasia Kyriakaos, Evelina Kusaite, Maja Kuzmanovic,
Nat Muller, Steve Pickles, Martin Schlingmann,
Todo Todoroff, Yon Visell, Rachel Wingfield
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tx0om is a co-production between FoAm VZW, Future
Physical/shinkansen (UK) Time’s Up (Austria),
Interactive Institute (Sweden) and KIBLA (Slovenia).
Supported by: Culture 2000 framework of the European
Commission, Flemish Ministry of Culture, (Belgium),
Fonds BKVB, (The Netherlands), Future Physical
(UK), Arts Council of England (UK), CIEFFE srl,
(Italy).
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It
is supported by: Culture 2000 framework of the
European Commission, Ministry of the Flemish Community
(Belgium), Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts
- Design and Architecture (The Netherlands), Future
Physical (East England Arts/shinkansen) in association
with the Arts Council of England (UK), Norwich
School of Arts and Design, (UK), Alveo AG (Holland),
Zonzo Cie (Belgium), Het Rubber Huis (Belgium),
CIEFFE srl (Italy), Crespi srl (Italy) Siat srl
(Italy), Georgia Institute of Technology (USA).
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Prototypes
of the T-Garden system were presented at Ars Electronica
Centre, Linz, Austria and V2, Institute for Unstable
Media, The Netherlands in September/October 2002
with research support from Future Physical, assisted
by the Arts Council Collaborative Arts Unit.
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WEAR
ME!!! Event
Information!
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txOom
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project
description:
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txOom
is a pioneering installation taking the form of a responsive
PlaySpace, where the participants are invited to actively
take part in transforming the environment; shaping the
sound, playing with visuals, tangling in textiles, and
thereby molding their own experiences. The name, 'txOom'
is an amalgam of the words textile and bloom, the two
terms guiding the aesthetic and the technological research
of the project. The txOom spaces are as flexible, malleable
and interconnected as fibres in a textile, with an ability
to grow, evolve and unfold like plants in bloom.
The
txOom environments can be thought of as being able to
adopt the properties of living, breathing skins. Fabrics,
garments and objects in these spaces are soft, shapeable
interfaces mediating the experience between the human
individuals and the mixed reality of the PlaySpace:
a place where the edge of virtual worlds drips into
the physical. The fabrics, objects and garments constitute
the animate parts of the physical environment that participants
can wear, thereby bringing the environment to life.
The
PlaySpace is composed of several wearable architectural
elements including wall-shirts, swing-dresses and floor-skirts.
By wearing these garments, the participants literally
wear the txOom space, causing the physical environment
to be reshaped by their activity in it. This activity
influences the shape of the physical environment as
a whole, simultaneously inciting growth and mutation
in the media worlds. Each player is sensed by the PlaySpace
using motion sensors and vision tracking systems incorporated
into the space. Gradually, the social interaction between
the participants, and the responsive sound and visuals
projected throughout the PlaySpace, will change and
evolve as they begin to play together.
txOom
environments are designed as public experiments, arenas
for testing and research in the fields of biomimetics,
visualisation and sonification of human behaviour and
human-computer interaction in mixed realities. Through
the public experiments, txOom aims to move towards environments
where the public becomes an essential part of the work.
At this stage the project places emphasis on body-motion
sensing technologies and active fabrics, complementing
Future Physical’s Wearable Computing research
strand and the WEAR
ME!!! Network Exchange.
The
presentation of tx0om in the UK integrates a range of
professional development opportunities to facilitate
the involvement of students, young, local and international
digital and textile artists in the development of the
tx0om costumes and the generative media systems. In
October 2002 and January 2003 there have been / will
be tx0om Alive Textiles Workshop at Norwich School of
Art and Design.In November at the Hippodrome/Circus
Space, Great Yarmouth, Systems Demo Intensive as well
as the Creative User Research Workshops for specialist
community groups targetted with SeaChange.
The tx0om Alive Textile Workshop is a collaboration
between Fo.Am and Norwich School of Art and Design in
co-operation with Future Physical.
The tx0om Creative User Research Workshops are a collaboration
between Future Physical/shinkansen, Fo.Am and Seachange
with funding support form EC Culture 2000 framework
of European commission & Arts Council at England
(Playgarden)
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biography:
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Fo.Am
is an independent, distributed laboratory located
in Brussels (Belgium) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands),
based on multidisciplinary models of cultural expression,
operating on the cusp of research, production and
reflection of creative practices. It is a workspace
for interdisciplinary cultural, esthetic and political
experiments. Projects question the boundaries between
cultural forms, and in a broader perspective, between
culture, science and technology. Fo.Am is an 'edge-habitat',
a site of translation between arts, humanities and
sciences, where separate languages form building blocks
of the organisation that has their integration as
its major goal. This process of hybridisation is accelerated
by one common denominator: the use of technology.
http://fo.Am
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txOom
image
credits
John Chapman (jc) &
txOom
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presentation:
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VENUE/S:
Hippodrome/Circus Space
LOCATION: Great Yarmouth
DATE: 1st - 8th December 2002
As
part of the Culture 2000 programme, tx00m presentations
in February 2003 in Maribor, Slovenia and April 2003
in Brussels (Belgium).
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