Sound and image projection specifically commissioned for Eyes Lies and Illusions in 2006.
Swarm, in the tradition of the phantasmagoria, hides the technology by which its effects are created. Multiple projections, motion sensors and speakers create the sense that the gallery is inhabited by insects, which emerge from a throbbing hive in a dark corner of the building to fly across the displays or swoop around visitors to the gallery. The work is unable to be seen in its entirety from any one place, it has no frame, no apparent beginning nor end. The bugs are free to move through the gallery space, just as we are. Swarm reacts to our presence, yet is beyond our control.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Previously on display
11 February 2007
ACMI Screen Gallery
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B2000488
Holdings
DVD ROM; Master
ISO; Digital Preservation Master - presentation
ISO; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation