Possessed [online]





Forest of Imagined Beginnings (2007)


Wish (2006)


Sky-Rail (2006)

more artwork

Vicky Isley & Paul Smith
Research Fellows in Computer Animation & Computer Art
NCCA, Bournemouth University
t: +44 (0) 1202 966699
e: info at boredomresearch dot net

boredomresearch is represented by [DAM] Berlin



Exhibition catalogue
Tumbling Dream Chambers catalogue is on sale for 7 euros + P&P to purchase contact [DAM] Berlin

Forest of Imagined Beginnings
An instance of this online forum will launch on the 14th October 07 on Folly's digi-club for 12-16 year olds.
www.enter-forest.net

visit us on myspace & flickr www.myspace.com
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Possessed
boredomresearch launched Possessed @ Artsway, Sway, May 2001


Alert window from a Possessed Spook Player, 2001

An online artwork commissioned by Artsway, contemporary visual arts venue, New Forest (Dec 2000), funded by the Arts Council of England. Possessed grew from an interest in generative time-based works where events are created as a result of interaction and computation. 
 
boredomresearch extensively explored the relationship between the sublime and computational abstraction before developing this project that used simple a-life technology to engage an online audience with a synthesised supernatural experience. Isley collaborated with Paul Smith to develop a speech engine that could communicate with the user in effect becoming an electronic Poltergeist. The project built upon and extended simple AI technologies but with an emotional and experiential agenda.
 
Possessed was selected as a case study in the publication, New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004, published by Cornerhouse in April 2004 (ISBN: 0948797886). This publication presents wide-ranging voices and approaches to new media practice and illustrates the extraordinary breadth and diversity of the constituencies and cultures of the new media artistic landscape in the UK between 1994 and 2004. This two page case study explored how boredomresearch developed Possessed to challenge notions of software art, encouraging users to develop a relationship with the work over a time frame of up to six months. Aiming to reverse their previous psychology of building one work to communicate to many and instead build works that moulded themselves around the individual users. From May 2001-March 2002 Possessed received 68,354 visitors, averaging at 189 per day. A review of the artwork was featured in .net publication, issue 85, June 2001.

For further information on Possessed please visit: http://www.boredomresearch.net/possessed


related links
http://www.artsway.org.uk