ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Crowd Control gives the audience the opportunity to interact with real-time 3D animated figures that are walking, running and gesticulating. A floor sensor detects the audience’s movement and triggers the variations of movements of the figures on the screen. From seemingly random movements to highly choreographed formations, the work reflects on issues such as the individual versus group dynamics, crowd behaviours and figures as automaton.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Gregory Bennett is an artist engaged with digitally generated and animated groups of moving 3D generic figures. His work draws on diverse influences, including the photographic studies of humans in motion by Eadweard J.Muybridge and Jules-Etienne Marey, the elaborate geometric choreography of 1930s Hollywood musical choreographer Busby Berkeley, the looped animations of nineteenth century optical toys, Renaissance depictions of the body, the concept of the ‘automaton’, the aesthetics of the contemporary digital video game, and the spatial dynamics of Japanese Edo period prints. Bennett is a lecturer at AUT University and is represented by Two Rooms Gallery in Auckland.
ABOUT THE DEVELOPER
Johann specialises in video-based production design for installations, theatre and live interactive performance media. His video art focuses on three-dimensional surface mapping, and his research interests concentrate on the relationship between light, space and performance, with particular interest in the ephemerality of personal experience within performance. His work has been shown at various international festivals including the European Festival of Music, the Rome Summer Solstice Festival, the Eternal Tiber Festival, the New York River to River Festival, the Birth of Rome Celebrations, and the New Zealand International Arts Festival. He has a Masters of Design degree in interactive media from Victoria University, Wellington, where he teaches design theory and research.
OPENING EVENT
Tuesday 4 September / 5.30 to 7 pm / Level 2, Aotea Centre / Free
Join us for Happy Hour up to $4
ART WEKK LATE NIGHT
Thursday 1 November / 5.30 to 7.30 pm / Level 2, Aotea Centre / Free
Thursday 1 November / 5.30 to 7.30 pm / Level 2, Aotea Centre / Free
Digital Art Live is celebrating the Art Week in presenting the brass band Spoilers of Utopia in front of the interactive exhibition Crowd Control by Gregory Bennett. From 6 to 6.30 pm, enjoy the most apocalyptic New Zealand brass band and until 9 pm, interact with the fascinating utopian world of Gregory Bennett.
Happy Hour drinks up to $4 will be available until 7.30 pm to accompany this dystopian evening.
