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January 4, 2009

"A Cure for Surveillance" Installation by Jonah Bokaer and Liubo Borissov

"A Cure for Surveillance" (2007) is an interactive movement installation created by Jonah Bokaer and Liubo Borissov for the lobby/gallery space at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City.

A Cure for Surveillance addresses the human body through the use of digital media, and is designed both to utilize and critique contemporary technologies of surveillance in our society.

The installation combines live video streams of pedestrians, whose movements are monitored with video-tracking and shape recognition technology, with pre-recorded motion capture loops to create a sense of interactivity inside and outside the gallery space.


A Cure for Surveilance from WorleyWorks on Vimeo.

The "A Cure for Surveillance" website includes documentation, images, diagrams and video.

Credits:

Choreography, Concept, Digital Media, Installation: Jonah Bokaer and Liubo Borissov
Motion Capture and Co-production: Greg Worley/WorleyWorks
Virtual Dancer: Michelle Mola
Invisible Partner: Douglas Letheren
Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop, April 9-28, 2007
Duration: Indeterminate (24 Hours/7 Days/Variable)

Posted by Doug Fox on January 4, 2009 11:03 AM



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1 Comments

Daniel McCusker said:

This is an interesting thing. Not as a critique of surveillance but on its own.

Added: January 6, 2009 4:51 PM | Permalink

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