igloo: summerbranch
4 March - 17 April 2006
Reception for the artists: Saturday 4 March 2006 2pm - 5pm
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Summerbranch is a new commission by Igloo that explores movement and stillness in nature. Using camouflage and other disguises, a person or a computer character can blend into a ‘natural’ environment captured and treated through the moving image.
This installation uses the tools of the military-entertainment complex: computer gaming, motion capture, 3D environments and special effects to question what is truth and artifice in our attempts to reproduce nature. Through the creation of a computer generated virtual world Summerbranch seeks to address this through the use of disguise in dance and movement. Igloo not only investigate the role of the ‘real’ in virtual environments but also that of the reproduction of nature in the history of art and particularly landscape work.
The gallery installations include multi-channel projections offering the visitor the opportunity to navigate around a virtual world; full screen video works, sculptures and prints; all acting together to form a work which challenges our notions of dance and our experience of the real.
Igloo founder members Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli have been working together since 1995. Their projects are interdisciplinary and are made working with teams of practitioners drawn primarily from dance and technology backgrounds. You can find out more about Igloo at: www.igloo.org.uk (opens in new window).
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Motion Capture Demo Day: Monday 27 March 2006, 10:30am – 3:30pm
An opportunity for college students, lecturers and heads of departments to visit ArtSway for a demonstration day of Motion Capture Technology by experts Animazoo. Igloo will also be demonstrating this equipment in relation to their work. FREE
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Gallery Talk: Saturday 8 April 2006 at 2pm
Join Igloo artists Ruth Gibson and Bruno Martelli on an informal tour of the exhibition as they discuss their work with ArtSway Director Mark Segal. FREE
Summerbranch is a Capture 4 co-commission between ArtSway, SCAN and Arts Council England.
For further details about Capture 4 please visit:
www.portlandgreen.com/capture4
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