BLOWUP BY SIMON BIGGS - ADA | Archive of Digital Art

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aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
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- cybernetic
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- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
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- mobile
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- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
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- processual
- projected
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- real-time
- realistic
- remediated
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- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
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- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
genre
- Bio Art
  - Genetic Art
  - Transgenic Art
- Concept Art
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- Digital Graphics
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- Installation
  - augmented reality
  - interactive installation
  - mixed reality
  - performative installation
  - sound installation
  - virtual reality
    - 360° virtual walktrough
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  - Happening
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  - video performance
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subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
  - algorithm
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  - cartography
  - code
  - combinatorics
  - cyberspace
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  - experiment
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  - machine
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  - nanotechnology
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  - philosophy
    - metaphysics
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  - Representation of knowledge
  - research
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  - scientific image
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- ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
  - allegory
  - anamorphosis
  - animation
  - architecture
  - art history
  - art market
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  - collage
  - comics
  - conservation
  - dance
  - drawing
  - expanded cinema
  - fashion
  - gaze
  - grid
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  - literature
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  - ancestor
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  - global warming
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  - outer space
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- POWER AND POLITICS
  - authority
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- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
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  - creation
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  - paradise
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    - islam
    - judaism
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  - vision
  - worship
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  - voyeurism
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- TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
  - ambient intelligence
  - artificial intelligence
  - artificial life
  - biocomputer
  - blockchain
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  - development
  - digitization
  - electricity
  - emulation
  - engineering
  - history of technology
  - innovation
  - intelligent environment
  - invention
  - mechanics
  - military technology
  - mobility
  - nonhuman communication
  - optics
  - product design
  - production
  - robot
  - simulation
  - software manipulations
  - supercomputing
  - technophobia
  - telematics
  - telepresence
Technology
- Display
  - Electronic displays
    - BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
    - CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
    - computer monitor
    - dome
    - Electromechanical Display Device
    - Electronic Paper
    - flashlight
    - Head-up Display
    - Headphones
    - HMD (Head-mounted Display)
    - holography
    - laser
    - light-emitting diode
    - lightbox
    - plasma
    - printer
    - projection screen
    - projector
    - robotic
    - speakers
    - VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
    - VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
  - Non-electronic displays
    - body
    - Book
    - easel painting
    - globe
    - house wall
    - inflatable structure
    - mirror
    - paper
    - sculpture
    - shutter glasses
    - sofa
    - Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
    - table
- Hardware
  - camera
  - computer mouse
  - data glove
  - Joystick
  - MAC
  - Mobile Device
  - multi touchscreen
  - plotter
  - scanner
  - touchscreen
  - Video
  - webcam
- Interface
  - Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
  - Biological Sensor
  - biometrics
  - Body sensor
    - Body Tracking
    - brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
    - breathing sensor
    - Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
    - Endoscope
    - eye scanner
    - facial recognition system
    - Motion Capture
    - positiontracker
    - retina scanner
    - Speech Recognition
    - step sensor
  - camera recording
  - electromagnetism
  - interactive media
    - Auditory User Interface (AUI)
    - Augmented Reality Interfaces
    - breath based communication
    - Internet of Things (IoT)
    - Ludic Interface
    - MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
    - Multi-Modal Interaction
    - tactile user interfaces
    - Tangible Acoustic Interface
    - Tangible User Interface (TUI)
    - Voice User interface
  - Non-electronic interface
    - bike
    - doll
    - furniture
    - plant
  - robotic interfaces
  - Soundgenerating device
    - Audiotape
    - keyboard
    - microphone
    - musical instrument
    - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
    - syntheziser
    - telephone
    - Theremin
    - turntable
    - voice analysis
  - virtual balance
- Software
  - C++
  - CGI/Perl
  - CSS
  - Global Positioning System (GPS)
  - ISDN
  - Java
  - Linux
  - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  - periscope
  - PHP
  - RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
  - SGI Onyx2
  - softimage
  - software interface
  - Video
  - VRML
  - Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
  - XML

Information

Simon Biggs >

»Blowup«, 2008

Co-Workers & Funding:

Choreography by Sue Hawksley
Software by Josh Nimoy and Simon Biggs
The performers seen in the documentation are Said Dakash, Sue Hawksley, Freya Jeffs and Cat Casbon
Research and development for Blowup was supported by New Media Scotland's Alt-w fund and Dance Base, Edinburgh.
Produced by articulate animal, copyright 2008

http://littlepig.org.uk/installations/blowup/index.htm

Cite

Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Simon Biggs - »Blowup«”. https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/blowup.html (retrieved 2016-08-02). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {Simon Biggs - »Blowup«}, url = {https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/blowup.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2016-08-02}

Technology

Descriptions & Essays

DA Editor 08-02-2016
Blowup is an interactive performance environment, designed for choreographed performances and public interaction.
The work consists of a large video projection in which video imagery of the performers/viewers is manipulated in real-time.
The performer/viewers' live video image is cut up, redistributed and distorted according to a number of algorithms that are responsive to their actions.
The software underpinning the work tracks the performers in real-time and is capable of detailed motion data acquisition.
This data is employed to manipulate the live imagery. Distinct parts of the body are treated independently by the software.
Data can be distributed over networks for telematically connected installations and web based artworks.
Source: Simon Biggs

DA Editor: Blowup, 08-02-2016, in: Archive of Digital Art

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