Unstill Life. 2000
In Unstill Life, a digital portrait observes and responds to the interactions between the installation visitors and apples. If the visitor eats an apple, the portrait alters and gains digital weight; if the visitor abstains the portrait decays; and if the portrait receives insufficient attention (time spent, apple interaction) animation frames are deleted and the portrait gradually vanishes.
In Unstill Life for the first time the consumption of real apples is the organic interface between the audience and a projected character.
Credits
Mari Velonaki: original concept, interface & interaction design
in collaboration with
Gary Zebington
Exhibited at
Spectrascope, the Performance Space, Sydney, Australia (the Biennale of Sydney), Australia.
Julianne Pierce & Jaqueline Phillips (curators), May 2000.
Outside In, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia. Rilka Oakley (curator), May - June 2003.
Melbourne Art Fair, work represented by Novamedia, Royal Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, Australia. September - October 2004.