Intimate Transactions
An exciting new form of interactive installation that allows two people in separate rooms to interact simultaneously using only their bodies.
Each person uses a physical interface called the Bodyshelf. By gently moving their bodies on this smart furniture they instigate Intimate Transactions, which influence an evolving world created from digital imagery and multi-channel sound.
This shared experience allows the two participants to gradually develop a form of sensory intimacy with each other, despite the fact that they are geographically separated and cannot physically see or hear each other.
As this highly immersive fifteen-minute experience evolves, each participant begins to sense their part in a complex web of relations that connect them, and everything else within the work.
Intimate Transactions is an ambitious new work from the renowned Australian Transmute Collective a group of internationally recognized performers, media artists, sound artists, programmers and ecological scientists.
The Transmute Collective is Keith Armstrong (director) who specialises in collaborative, hybrid, new media works emphasising performance, site-specific installation and new media public art; Lisa ONeill (performer) who has appeared twice in previous New Moves festivals and is trained in dance and the Suzuki method of acting; Guy Webster (sound) an experienced sound artist and nationally recognized Australian musician. They have developed a significant new media/performance hybrid practice over the past 8 years, collaborating with numerous high profile Australian and overseas artists. Special thanks to all our collaborators, including Zeljko Markov (Interface design), Inger Mewburn & Pia Ednie Brown (Tactile feedback design), Marcos Caceres, Stuart Lawson, Cameron Owen, Benn Woods, Gavin Sade, Benedict Foley and others.
This project has been assisted by the ACID (Australasian Centre For Interaction Design) and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body & the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland. Keith Armstrong is currently a Postdoctoral New Media Fellow at QUT, Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre, Brisbane. Intimate Transactions was developed with support from the Performance Space Residency Program, Sydney. RMIT Spatial Information Architecture Lab.