A Peter Forde Live Digital projection, commissioned by The Tower Bridge Gallery.
A digital projection and live feed, capturing the street and people, outside the gallery - digitally altering the projected image to appear as an ‘early film’. When passing, your image is captured, digitally altered, so not immediately recognisable. Children, adults and passers by would stop and play with their recorded image. The reward for making your image ‘move about a lot’ was to create a ‘Space Invaders Ghost’ to appear and pinch you on the bum.
The run was extended twice due to it’s popularity.
“The commission was to bring the charm of old fashioned ‘moving image tools’ to meet ‘new digital skills’ and explore the area where a desire to play and participate began.”
Simon Elliott
Peter was also commissioned in response to the artwork by the Shakespeare’s Theatre, to create a permanent digital artwork for the Globe Exhibition. As visitors to the exhibition pass the entrance where there is a bust of Shakespeare, people are encouraged to stroke his cheek and see if they can feel any poetry. Secretly their action is filmed and, in the main exhibition, screened on the wall - enlarged and prominent. Visitors see as the cheek is rubbed the head glows then fills with light which then travels along the visitors arm and fills the visitor with light and words. It is a simple and very effective visually pleasing way of engaging people with Shakespeare in the exhibition and livens up the space in a gentle and charming way.
A digital projection and live feed, capturing the street and people, outside the gallery - digitally altering the projected image to appear as an ‘early film’. When passing, your image is captured, digitally altered, so not immediately recognisable. Children, adults and passers by would stop and play with their recorded image. The reward for making your image ‘move about a lot’ was to create a ‘Space Invaders Ghost’ to appear and pinch you on the bum.
The run was extended twice due to it’s popularity.
“The commission was to bring the charm of old fashioned ‘moving image tools’ to meet ‘new digital skills’ and explore the area where a desire to play and participate began.”
Simon Elliott
Peter was also commissioned in response to the artwork by the Shakespeare’s Theatre, to create a permanent digital artwork for the Globe Exhibition. As visitors to the exhibition pass the entrance where there is a bust of Shakespeare, people are encouraged to stroke his cheek and see if they can feel any poetry. Secretly their action is filmed and, in the main exhibition, screened on the wall - enlarged and prominent. Visitors see as the cheek is rubbed the head glows then fills with light which then travels along the visitors arm and fills the visitor with light and words. It is a simple and very effective visually pleasing way of engaging people with Shakespeare in the exhibition and livens up the space in a gentle and charming way.