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You Were In My Dream 2010

Artwork You Were In My Dream this artwork made of Custom animation bench: Duncan Jack; Programming: Touch My Pixel; Sound: James Cecil Interactive installation: live-feed webcam and single-channel video constructed from stop-motion animation exhibited as Shockwave Flash from hard drive, wood, 16:9, colour, sound An Experimenta commission, created in 2010-01-01
Accession No.
2010.473a-c
Date Created
2010
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Contemporary Australian Art
Dimensions A
170 x 70 x 170cm (irreg.)
Edition
ed. 1/3
Media Category
Installation
Secondary Media Category
electronic media
Medium
Custom animation bench: Duncan Jack; Programming: Touch My Pixel; Sound: James Cecil
Interactive installation: live-feed webcam and single-channel video constructed from stop-motion animation exhibited as Shockwave Flash from hard drive, wood, 16:9, colour, sound
An Experimenta commission
Place Created
Melbourne, Vic.
Credit Line
The Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award 2010. Purchased 2010 with funds from the Queensland Government

Ideas of cloaking oneself through animal transformation pulse through the lush papercut stop motion animation and interactive installation You Were In My Dream 2010, by collaborating artists Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine. Beginning with a small child sleeping on a jungle floor, the viewer wakes the child with a click of the mouse to find their face has been imposed onto the animated figure through a live video feed. The viewer is prompted to send their character on a magical journey by clicking on one of the many pulsing stars on the screen. Echoing elements of the transformative chase in classic fairy tales, whereby a pursuit prompts the protagonist to shapeshift through several forms, the viewer is invited to take on the form of a rabbit, monkey, wolf or bird. In a magical world that demands one to eat or be eaten, these changes are not without their own challenges.

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© Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Feature image: Del Kathryn Barton / Australia b.1972 / Brendan Fletcher b.unknown / The Nightingale and the Rose (still) 2015 / Gift of Del Kathryn Barton through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2022. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / © Del Kathryn Barton / Image courtesy: The artist and RoslynOxley9 Gallery, Sydney

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