Digital Art NZ - Emerging Pixels #4

For immediate release

DIGITAL ART NZ - GOT TALENT!

Auckland Live and Colab/AUT University present

Emerging Pixels #4

Wednesday 12 November 2014 – Thursday 12 March 2015

Digital Art Live offers the opportunity for young digital and interactive artists to present their work. Emerging Pixels returns for a fourth edition to showcase the next generation of New Zealand digital talents. Three works by AUT University students have been selected (see below) to give audiences a taste of what the future of digital art looks like.

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EP Experience 1: Discover your reactions through a virtual mirror.

Face Echoes by Donald Smith

12 November to 4 December 2014

Face Echoes is a unique mirror. Based on the participants’ movements and the number of viewers in the interactive space, the virtual mirror decides and then reflects back a range of expressions from joy to un-happiness or neutrality. The facial expressions are not displayed statically, but morph from one facial expression to another creating a new, virtual character that is transient in nature.

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EP Experience 2: Hands that make music.

Vizcera by Alexey Botkov

8 December 2014 to 8 February 2015

Vizcera is a musical instrument that is triggered by the participant's hand gestures and creates a contemplative and meditative audio-visual experience. Colours and sounds appear on the digital screen influenced by the participant’s movements and at times have an element of chaos and unpredictability to them.

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EP Experience 3: Are you ready to be embedded into the digital screen?

Glass In My Mind by Georgia Shattky and Odessa Coleman in collaboration with Hubbub

11 February to 12 March 2015

Are you ready to be part of the next generation of storytelling? Glass in my Mind takes the silhouette of participants in front of the screen and embeds them into the digital story on screen. The viewers can then physically interact with the footage on screen and interject randomness and unpredictability into the narrative.

Digital Art Live

Exploring the intersection of art and technology, Digital Art Live is collaboration between Colab/AUT University and Auckland Live and invites audiences to interact with an interactive screen and become part of a new generation of Art.

Digital Art Live is the only permanent interactive exhibition space of its kind in New Zealand. The screen is situated on Level 2 of the Aotea Centre - the perfect location to invite people to engage with the performance possibilities of digital art and help bring art to life. Audience participation is necessary to complete the art work. We invite audiences to come down and play.

Digital Art Live

Level 2, Aotea Centre / Free

Monday to Friday 7.30am to 6pm

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