Trainflow: an interactivated video environment

Captured flows of patterns, layers and motions as observed when moving, presented in collages which can be influenced by the audience and the environment are to be exhibited at the University of Technology, Sydney's DAB Lab gallery, from 6 to 28 September 2007.

Trainflow, an installation by Dr Bert Bongers, is a moving collage of simultaneously playing short clips from various journeys - by train, bicycle, monorail, car - which can be modified through input from the viewer.

"The audience can influence this installation by having an impact on the speed, sound and direction of the video clips. This creates a dynamic environment that is engaging for people to explore, interact with, play with, discover.


"The movement of the audience and their proximity to the screens controls these moving collages so that they evolve over time under the influence of the viewers," explains Bert Bongers, Associate Professor of Design at UTS.

Over the last three years, Dr Bongers has recorded more than 100 small video clips, each with its own character and flow, and they will be presented to the audience in such a way that they can influence the presentation of the material.

Dr Bongers has a professional and personal interest in technological systems and how they interact with people, or how they fail to in some circumstances. Trainflow draws on this interest and his current research into interactivity.

He will be establishing the Interactivation Studio at UTS's Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building to lead research into interactivity and design later in 2007.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bert Bongers has a mixed academic and practice background in technology (BSc EE), human sciences (MSc Erg. UCL London). In his recently completed PhD (VU Amsterdam) he combines insights and experiences gained from musical instrument design, interactive architecture, video performances, and interface development for multimedia systems to establish frameworks and an ecological approach to the design for the interaction between people and technology. He has set up new media labs in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Maastricht, lectured in workshops and newly developed courses on interaction at various universities and schools.

Trainflow opens at 5.30pm, Thursday 6 September at DAB Lab Gallery, Level 4 Courtyard, UTS: Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, 702-730 Harris Street, Ultimo

For more information about Dr Bongers, visit www.bertbongers.com.

Please visit the DAB Lab web site for more information.

Date: 6 Sep 2007 - 28 Sep 2007
Location: City - Broadway, CB06 Peter Johnson, Level 4, Courtyard area.
Audience: All Welcome
Contact:  Aanya Roennfeldt
aanya.roennfeldt@uts.edu.au
Phone: 9514 8016

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