SLEEP Prototype : [screen shots] SLEEP[home]

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Abstract:

SLEEP is an interactive sound and dance video installation to be navigated by visitors who's presence and movement is detected by sensors.The work is about sleeping, dreaming and floating. The means of expression are the human body and dance.

Contrasting to the dark screen we see a female dancer in a multitude of different sleeping positions. In the installation's initial state, these figures are shown in smooth transition with a mellow sound atmosphere. When someone enters this peaceful environment, interaction with the sleeping woman in the video commences. A self preservation function induces dreaming or R.E.M. The sleepers ability to sense her surroundings physically lets us become a part of her dreams.

Although the installation constantly offers exciting opportunities of interaction, its character stays introspectively calm and smoothly retained, giving the audience the feeling of having stepped into an intimate situation....When the dancer finds herself in one of these dreams, her movement is directly influenced by the pulse of music or the spatial position of the audience. During the self generating and visitor influenced processes, cloudy metamorphosing video sequences radiate written and spoken text fragments...all this reflecting on sleep and dream.

The dream, sleep and dance sequences are connected in a structure which artistically abstracted remindsat functionalities of nerve cells (neurons).

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Advanced Treatment:	Further Information:
01 Structure & Flow	11 Short Biographies & Statements
02 Soundtrack	12 Production plan
03 Visuals	13 Calculation & Financing
04 Choreography	14 Links / Database
05 SetUp
06 State of development

. The visualized structure helps navigating in a multidimensional movie-time-space.

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