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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Machine Dreams
Jill Scott
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Original: Machine Dreams | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Machine Dreams | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Machine Dreams | 4425 * 3017px | 42.9 MB
Original: Machine Dreams | 3017 * 4425px | 38.4 MB
The installation “Machine Dreams” uses video to trigger zones of individual sound samples. It is an interactive installation that uses the reaction of the participant to the visual component of the space to produce a soundscape.
The visual component refers to visions of technological Utopia, demonstrated by four modified machines taken from the lives of four women in history. These machines are: a sewing machine (1900), a typewriter (1940), a mixmaster (1960), a telephone switchboard (1990).
Four graphic images, displayed on a wall, provide the connection between the technology on display and the body. The sound composition reflects the Utopian dreams of each era and the technology itself.
Technical Background
Sound: sponsored by Perceptive Systems, Melbourne, Australia; 3DIS Music System; proprietary software & hardware; 4 monochrome video surveillance cameras; host PC; 4 video framegrabbers (Vista and Matrox PIP); RGB monitor; Roland MPU401 synthesiser controller; MIDI based synthesisers and samplers. (Jill Scott)
The visual component refers to visions of technological Utopia, demonstrated by four modified machines taken from the lives of four women in history. These machines are: a sewing machine (1900), a typewriter (1940), a mixmaster (1960), a telephone switchboard (1990).
Four graphic images, displayed on a wall, provide the connection between the technology on display and the body. The sound composition reflects the Utopian dreams of each era and the technology itself.
Technical Background
Sound: sponsored by Perceptive Systems, Melbourne, Australia; 3DIS Music System; proprietary software & hardware; 4 monochrome video surveillance cameras; host PC; 4 video framegrabbers (Vista and Matrox PIP); RGB monitor; Roland MPU401 synthesiser controller; MIDI based synthesisers and samplers. (Jill Scott)
In 1973 Jill Scott received a degree in Art and Design at the Prahan College of Advanced Education in Melbourne, a Diploma of Education at the Melbourne Teachers College and a Masters Degree in Fine Art and Communications at the San Francisco State University in 1977. Besides many group exhibitions she had numerous individual shows, e.g. The Sydney Biennale, Sydney 1990, The Performance Space, Sydney 1990, Audio Visual Lisboa, Lisbon 1990, the Melbourne Film Festival, Melbourne 1988, The Sound Factory, Tokyo 1986.