My installation entitled Specious Souls evolved from research I had been working on for several years. I re-visited the emotionally expressive, virtual, 3D human head engine that I had been developing and using for ĭn’ter-kôrs’. After the last piece I decided to reconsider the involvement of interaction and set about experimenting with cameras and voice activated commands, and touch pads for the floor, which were easier and can create more immediate responses. After a tutorial with my supervisor where he pointed out that sometimes simplifying the work was a great way to understand what I had, and possibly need or could do without. With this in mind, after quite some experimental creative time in the studio I decided to remove all electronic forms of interaction and position two virtual actors projected from opposite corners of a 16metre room onto a set of 7 plinths, that I arranged to visually please myself, considering notions of tension, separation, immediate proximity and merging. The emerging installation reminded me of Salvador Dali’s, Mae West Room in look and feel, and with digital projections it became a fluid, moving sculpture.
