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The Morph MeadowArtist: Chris HalesComment:

ToyboxArtist: Chris HalesComment:

This collection of experimental interactive movies, made by the artist over several years, shows live-action works in which the visual metaphors for interaction are inherent in the filmic material. Because the movies are conceived from a visual...

The Twelve Loveliest Things I KnowArtist: Chris HalesComment:

GrandadArtist: Chris HalesComment:

LORNA
1979-1983 A.D.
A.D. "A precondition to video is that it does not talk back. It absorbs, rather than reflects."
Preliminary Notes, 1981

While video was like a reflection that did not talk back, interactive works were like a trick, two...

The next interactive piece, DEEP CONTACT (1989), directly involves the body of the viewer/participant who were required to touch the computerscreen. Viewers choreograph their own encounters in the vista of voyeurism by actually putting their hand on...

ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1993) forces the viewers eyes to become immersed into the actual space of a tiny articulated interactive electronic peep show. A stainless steel box placed at eye level with movable periscopic viewing device bridges the viewer into...

In 1830, both the camera and the colt revolver were invented. more than a half century later, in 1888 Etienne Jules Maray perfected a gun that substituted film for bullets. There has long been a historical relationship between the camera and the gun,...

This piece was inspired by the paintings of Van Eyk and in particular the "Marriage of Arnofini". This piece uses reflection as a means of portraiture and reflected self portraiture. Though obscured and distanced, the artists reflection watches from...