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Chris Evans shows his work We Will destroy you at Lovebytes 03
Chris Evans 02920 641004
chris@coolpants.co.uk www.coolpants.co.uk
| "The
name, you see it's one of them things…I've got no sympathy for people
of my age called Elvis and people called Shirley Bassey, because
their parents would have know but my parents had no idea that there'd
be so many Chris Evans, and one in particular :) My work..it's an old Space invaders cabinet from 1977. It's 2 stage exhibit. The cameras hidden in it and films exactly what the invaders, were they real, would see if they were looking at you. So the thinking is while it's projected here in the foyer, people playing the game look at the people in the foyer in the same way as they would look at the invaders on the screen. So their seeing the invaders but they're actually looking down at the cinema goers with various expressions. You can just about see the camera behind the screen if you look hard enough. It's better when people don't know they're being filmed. I'm a computer programmer really. I started by helping artists who needed computer programming, for e.g. there'd be artists who needed programming working doing, I'd help them. Then I got to know the people who were doing it. Lovebytes is fantastic, I suggested myself that I come to the organisers and they said I could come which was nice, but I'm not famous so you have to suggest yourself a little bit! I wouldn't have been able to come over here from Cardiff and see all the things that are going on if I didn't have this opportunity. It's nice meeting other people who are doing interesting work then you feed off each others. I saw the Warp3 show reel which was fantastic, I saw Minim ++ which was unbelievably good, I have my son whose two with me and I think it's the first time it's ever happened that me and Ben have enjoyed a piece of art together on the same level. And of course I appreciate the programming that's gone into it!" Chris Evans Artist/Programmer |
| Above
installations: part of DSP3 a CD ROM featuring four newly
commissioned interactive multimedia works by Kurt Ralske, Nullpointer,
Dextro and Lia + Miguel Carvalhais. These pieces will be shown
in a special exhibition during the festival. The Artists talk
about their work commissioned for Lovebytes 2003. [See separate
Aritists pages for more information/images] www.dextro.org |
A
selection of interactive multimedia, film & internet work
shown this year includes Tina franks 'Fuzzy Motion' DVD
[Above] Lovebytes is also launching two new publications to coincide with the festival: DSP3 is a CD ROM featuring four newly commissioned interactive multimedia works by Kurt Ralske, Nullpointer, Dextro and Lia + Miguel Carvalhais & Volatile Media is a DVD/DVD ROM compilation of films and multimedia by artists commissioned Lovebytes over the last 3 years including by Terre Thaemlitz, Alex Peverett, Freeform, Steve Hawley, Butler Brothers and People Like Us. |
Photography/Interviews
Vicky Morris & Alison Coldwell