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Bandwidth: Interactive Installation will be at the Staten Island Lumen Festival on June 23rd, 2012, starting at 6pm and going until midnight. I am working on raising funds through Indiegogo — I made the video below so share widely.

The interactive installation, Bandwidth, was premiered as part of the Guelph Festival Nuit Blanche on September 10, 2011. Three audience members were able to alter one of the moving graphic elements, (one per screen), making the image “dance” to the music.

Download a promotional page Bandwidth-2012-Information.

Victoria is currently constructing a durable interface to enable full audience/participant control of rehearsal and perform modes.

The new interface will encourage permanent installation of the work in science centres, art galleries, museums or other public spaces. Download Bandwidth-Stageplot+details.

One minute of Bandwidth at Guelph Nuit Blanche 2011

Video of 2010 Work-in-progress at EMPAC, Troy, NY

EMPAC Work-in-Progress Review by Johannes Birringer

Victoria Gibson’s “Bandwidth,” a triptych projection of abstract moving graphics “dancing” to the music composed for this piece. The short work was reminiscent of early computer-graphics based “visual music” (a term also used in connection with Nam Jun Paik larger scale multi-monitor video installations) – films and computer animations or audiovisual kinetic non-representational works by artists such as Oskar Fischinger, Frantisek Kupka, Harry Smith, Lepold Survage and others – and could have been perceived as a stand-alone projection piece, had we not found out afterwards that Victoria interacted live with the visual programming, using a proximity sensor and Arduino microcontroller to affect, with the motion of her hands, the size and dynamics of the visuals. Following her presentation, she gave us a demonstration of the interface she had created over the past days, explaining that she hoped to perform her visual compositions wirelessly (as it was done in the early Theremin performances by Clara Rockmore), moving the visuals on stage as if it were a instrumental performance.

Full text here on the EMPAC Summer Intensive Lab Blog 2010.

The commercial aspect of my visual arts practice is handled under the company name, Victoria G. Fine Imagery.

All of these images are available as fine art prints with a hand signed certificate of authenticity.

Large size $200, medium $150, small $100 (CAN dollars).

Contact me for series viewing and pricing.

Electronic copies are signed by the artist — individually priced.

I am working on creating a video of the performance, here is a preview clip of the title sequence. Download information sheet here.RUFA-blurb+image150wd

The left screen: First I photographed the feather, then used digital filters to create “Digital Feather” then I programmed the floating down sequence.

The centre screen: Background and title created in open source software.

The right screen: Feather from wikipedia open source media also programmed to float.

The audio starts with Victoria playing solo, joined by Paul on guitar.

Here is a different clip from collaborator Christina deRoos on Vimeo of a segment where her ability to improvise with the music really shines.

I plan to create a documentary video featuring highlights from the show.