Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

Event Description

On through out the Spark Festival www.sparkfestival.ca Ectoplasmic Scream is an interactive multi-media art installation that uses a video game interface to manifest an otherworldly substance in another dimension. Employing a variety of motion capture and digital imaging techniques, gallery participants are able to manifest an ectoplasm inspired substance in a virtual environment. An onscreen avatar mimics participant’s face and mouth actions to generate the ectoplasmic scream. This relationship between the viewer and the screen explores the human potential to be active and present in more than one dimension, challenging popular ideas of reality, the virtual, and presence in a digitally mediated world. see video here: http://youtu.be/xfHXRjy-VLk Doug Jarvis is an artist/curato... more...