Working with students from the Department of Theatre and Dance at Winona State University, Micah Speller (Composer), Ben Serviss (Web designer and Coder), Claire Melbourne (Coder), and Kathryn Nusa Logan (Dramaturg), we created a screendance and website called interbody.dance! While you’re on the site, see its inner workings (thoughts) by right-clicking (or control-click in a…
Tag: Interactive
Vantage Being
Vantage Being‘s performances at the Urban Arts Space are going well! The piece combines an interactive video installation, live dance performance, and localized soundscapes to invite viewers to explore and making choices. As audience members move among live performers and interact with video installations they choose which parts of the multiple concurrent live and video-based…
Experiential Window System
This interactive window came on the heels of a video installation that I made for the Hopkin’s Hall Gallery, State of Swing. Making this, I considered reality’s complexity, and the filtering and framing we do to make meaning for ourselves. Two videos play simultaneously, and filters hang on a pedestal for viewers to pick up and look…
State of Swing (Hopkins Hall Gallery Oct 15 – Nov 29)
What you need to know before you watch: I created this film for exhibition in a gallery show called Cinema Expanded. It will be in the Hopkins Hall Gallery from Monday, October 15 to Thursday, November 29. The projector sits on a pedestal on the gallery, shining this film onto a white wall. Colored gels (or filters) hang…
Intermedia: Who Has Control?
“Writing in 1966, the American artist, poet and publisher Dick Higgins looked back on recent developments in art and, challenging the legacy of abstraction and expressionism…, noted the emergence during the same period of what he called ‘intermedia’ art, a hybrid form that involved ‘the dialectic between media’, and that was the result of keeping…
Isadora Between Realms
Last fall, Erin Drummond graciously agreed to to wake up at the break of dawn in a cold fall morning to film with me in the water and rolling around in the sand. We were finding sand in our hair and our ears for weeks (possibly even months) and and it took me almost a…
Brianna Rae Johnson 