StutterSleep | Jump, 2004

David Warne
at emmersive gallery in the DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto
at Spoke Club, Toronto
at Side Effects, Toronto
Touch software, video camera and projectors and movie files

Stuttersleep superimposes the fitful sleep patterns of a man & woman onto opposite sides of a bed sheet hanging in the gallery space, creating a recombinant creature. The audience may reach into the projection to wake the sleeper, while distorting the image like an invisible lover. The video character rolls over to continue sleeping.

Jump is an video self-portrait composed by editing the top part of a series of jumps together to seem like a hovering flight.

Both these video where created while collaborating with the Crevice art collective. Recycling the content into varying installation layouts allowed the artists to test various methods of controlling interactivity. In this case, a camera looks at the video from behind the scrim to see the shadow of the audience as they reach into the projection cone. Touch analyses the video to detect the shadows, where they are in the frame and how much they are moving. If the shadow overlaps the video-character the video plays forwards until they settle back to sleep.

Watch Quicktime Movie
SSleep | Jump Slideshow
Thanks to:
Crevice Art Collective, from which this material was recycled.
Johanna D’Hondt, Kevin Krivel, Monica Gudat and Marlene Moser for production
Actors: Martti Arrko Roxanne Deans
Jenn Goodwin
Side effects
Spoke Club
The Scrolling Layers code courtesy of dyn-web.com