SummerBranch

'... it concerns the reappropriation of technology used for more militaristic means: yet despite it's faintly ominous imagery, Summerbranch conveys a sense of tranquility.' - PC Gamer (Jan 2006)

Summerbranch is created for three gallery spaces and is composed of three parts: virtual environment, video installation and a set of lenticular and wall prints. The Summerbranch exhibition will be shown at V22 Ashwin Street, London 1-7 July 2008.

Summerbranch is a series of works that explore movement and stillness in nature. Using camouflage and other disguises, a person or a computer character can blend into a ‘natural’ environment captured and treated through the moving image. This installation uses the tools of the military-entertainment complex: computer gaming, motion capture, 3D environments and special effects to question what is truth and artifice in our attempts to reproduce nature. Through the creation of a computer generated virtual world Summerbranch seeks to address this through the use of disguise in dance and movement. The works investigate the role of the ‘real’ in virtual environments but also that of the reproduction of nature in the history of art and particularly landscape work.

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