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Cyberarts 2004, Ars Electronica
Honorary mentions, jury statement (p 155)
09- 2004
Somnambules
This elegant collaboration between
Nicolas Clauss, Jean-Jacques Birgé and Didier Silhol integrates
image, sound, dance, and interaction into a seamless experience. The textured,
photographic appearance creates an etheral atmosphere from which the piece
is revealed. It does not replace the experience of a dance event in real
space, but promotes an alternate encounter through combining visual representation
of body movements with a playful style of interaction.
Birgé's extraordinary audio stylings cleverly combine samples into
ever-changing sounds in response to the visitors mouse. Somnambules is
an extremely web-savvy presentation, using image sequences and audio loops
to achieve something greater than the sum of its individual parts.
