Martin Rieser
Scenes from "The Visitors"
Short Biography1990 created an interactive exhibition utilising giant digital panels and interactive sound installations composed by Edward Williams with an accompanying multimedia program on the theme of The Electronic Forest. This was one of the first such installations of its type and prototyped the connection of such exhibitions to the internet.
1993 devised and directed the Media Myth and Mania section of the joint Watershed/Artec exhibition and CD publication From Silver to Silicon. The latter piece has been shown at many venues around the world including Milia in Cannes; Paris; ICA and the Photographer’s Gallery, London and at ISEA Montreal.1995 Watershed/Cambridge Darkroom residency which involved constructing a self-curating web site and multimedia piece called Screening the Virus, based around publicly submitted artwork on HIV/Aids related themes. This was later short listed for a Wellcome Trust Sci-Art award.
1996 Other visual research projects included: the direction of a collaboration involving five other artists (collectively known as Ship of Fools) using the subject of mythologies to explore the full range of narrative and visual interfaces in interactive media in a piece called Labyrinth. This work involved drama, digital image, virtual environments, and interactive video at F-Stop Gallery in Bath and as part of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. It has been previewed at a number of other venues including the Oberhausen Short Film festival in Germany and at ISEA in Montreal.
1999 Understanding Echo, funded by the DA2 Open Commission. An interactive video drama, altered by human presence, it was shown at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Watershed, Bristol and at ISEA2002 in Nagoya Japan.2001 research project Triple Echo won an AHRB award and involves a three screen interactive video depicting a love triangle based on the Orpheus legend.
Curently developing interactive work Hosts for Bath Abbey and Starshed for Electric Pavilion
Participating artists