Confinement
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We are familiar with confinement. It is routinely self imposed and accepted as a function of our society. The spaces we inhabit have artificial boundaries beyond which we do not often stray. Providing a sense of security as well as a sense of location and identity. We are familiar with the confinement imposed upon us by a vehicle that we are driving along a road. Sometimes it is uncomfortable, we want to stretch out, or let in more air. We are cocooned and denied meaningful communication with those passing us by in their cars. Yet this imposed imprisonment allows us to travel safely across distances, through confinement we have freedom. We may of course stop and get out, but this prevents the activity of travel from taking place. Artists use confinement frequently as a tool to bound the perimeters of a project. Or, often artificially, to test and encourage the breaking out of such boundaries. Confinement is also an active part of the creative visual process. An example would be the photograph it is confined by the frame of it's field of vision and by recording a mere fraction of a second as a frozen instant. Yet through this confinement we are able to communicate effectively subtle responses to the world we experience. In 36MC new technology and digital media allows for confinement to be more usefully explored as a shared experience. The 36MC project is more about breaking away from the physical constraints of time and place. Various forms of telepresence will enable the confinement to remain an actuality yet be perceived and impinged upon by others. As an isolated participant based in a rural setting my symbiosis with others, frenetically acting out their parts in central Manchester fully conscious of the group dynamic, is tenuous. This will inevitably be a reaction by many, who may visit the event on-line. Tenuous though it may be it is this element - the feedback loop - which provides the dynamic aspect to the 36MC project. Dynamic information systems are at the heart of the current challenges that we need to respond to. We must not be confined to our previous experiences in a mode of stasis. Like the journey in the motor vehicle we have the option to stop, get out and look at our surroundings, but if only to then resume the journey exploring the new landscape.
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| Confinement | ||
| Collaboration | 6x6 | Self |
| Virtual Installation | 1296 Images | |
| SkinSky | ||
| taylor.nuttall@mcr1.poptel.org.uk | ||
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