11.04.08
Isolitude (Mike Marcus & Amie Slavin)
“Exploring the growing anomie in large urban centres Isolitude is a haunting and thought provoking piece.”
‘for the first time more than half the world’s population, or about 3.3 billion people, will live in cities, a number expected to swell to almost 5 billion by 2030′, United Nations Population report.
Running from 6th to 16th November ‘08 Isolitude is a joint installation by street-artist Mike Marcus and sound-artist Amie Slavin. Marcus’ 7-foot tall cutouts populate the gallery space creating a maze that forces you to navigate between the figures whilst Slavin’s 8.2 urban surround-scape presents an immersive and simultaneously detatched virtual environment placing listener & figures in menacing and uncomfortable surroundings.
Marcus has also created (a limited edition of 35) 6-colour screen prints available from jealous gallery
And my involvement ?
As Amie’s engineer I was involved in the hardware setup, and provided a custom (graphics tablet based) surround pan controller used in the mixing/building of Amie’s surround-scape … more on this soon.