Off the MAP: John Brinker's
posted: February 15, 2012
OFF THE MAP @ BOBO GALLERY: MONDAY FEBRUARY 20
Featuring John Brinker's "Can You Feel It?"
For our first Off the MAP event of the year, we're thrilled to present John Brinker, one of our 2011 MAP Grant recipients, with a first-look working preview of "Can You Feel It?", Brinker's interactive Kinect project. The finished project will be part of the 2012 {Re}HAPPENING in April.
ABOUTJOHN BRINKER'S "CAN YOU FEEL IT?"
"Can You Feel It?" is an interactive exploration of nostalgia experienced via cutting-edge technologies and immersive environments. The project examines rave culture and its radical, international appeal as a defining moment of a generation. Brinker's objective is to "create an emotional space where sincerity and irony can coexist, where 'low' and 'high' culture collapse into each other".
Brinker aims to expose the irony of contemporary nostalgia for this moment-- experienced alone as opposed to amidst an energetic crowd; via low-quality digital media on computer speakers, instead of through massive sound systems in huge warehouse venues.
Using Kinect motion capture to control Ableton Live software (using Ryan Challinor's Synapse for Kinect application), the project will create a four-channel reactive audio environment that generates rave music at an intensity dependent on the participant's enthusiastic movements. The interactive environment is an aural response to motion that allows the participant to "explore the richly associative world of the recent past".
EVENT DETAILS: Stop by Bobo Gallery (22 N. Lexington Ave) on Monday, February 20, at 9pm to be one of the first to test out "Can You Feel It?" Also featuring Avi Goldberg's brainwave-to-MIDI experimental project and other possible surprises!
