A visualization and auditory expansion of spatial relations.
- What distances do we keep between ourselves and others?
- How do we vary our movements in response to these?
- What dimensional requirements do we maintain in our personal environment?
These questions have become strangely and newly manifest throughout the past year’s safety protocols and isolations. Here, they are condensed into a form of radial rotary music box responding to the distances of those entering while sonically expanding their presence to occupy an acoustic space larger than their physical forms.
Kevin Blackistone works by incorporating emergent technological combinations of generative, immersive, interactive and performative practices. These are used to conceptualize the collection and handling of data, information and memory through the lenses of hierarchy and complexity in the domains of personal, social, scientific and political dynamics. Prior to joining the Interface Cultures Masters program, his studies included a BA in Intermedia and Digital Arts (UMBC, US) and an intramural research fellowship with the NIH Laboratory of Neurogenetics. His awards have included the Johns Hopkins Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund for his immersive installation, Who’s Watching – A Surveillance Apparatus and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation’s Rubys Arts Award for Extensions of the Self.
Interface Cultures Exhibition - Ars Electronica Festival 2021
