Babel
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Bio
babel is a british/canadian digital writer and artist. He has exhibited solo and collaborative work on and offline since 2002, and is editor of the post-dada magazine 391.org. In 2006 he was awarded the first 'Premio per l'arte digitale' by the Italian Ministry of Culture and four other cultural institutions for his work on Inanimate Alice [www.inanimatealice.com], a series of interactive multimedia stories written with the novelist Kate Pullinger.
More Babel
website: http://www.babel.ca
email: babel
391
org
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Eisenstein's Monster
by Babel
Project description
Make your own video monsters - 'Eisenstein's Monster' is a participatory video piece, a tongue-in-cheek coupling of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and the montage theories of Sergei Eisenstein.
In the interactive version the participant is invited to create life with the press of a button, then shape and twist their creatures to their whim. Biological life is transformed through the digital (in this case, digital video and Flash) and back through choices of the biological user to become new biodigital lifeforms.
If user input is impossible or not desired, there is an 'autoplay' version where the computer plays God.
While the piece is intended to be light-hearted, our collective fear of science playing God lurks here, as it did in Shelley's original.
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