MIC Toi Rerehiko Auckland New Zealand Marcia Lyons OPEN LIMIT Galleries two & three, Foyer
The flow of messaging through an ephemeral medium has an inherent porous quality that feels as mercurial as weather or as mysterious as vibrations in sound. Moving toward the fringe of a network's range suggest limits, liminal thresholds of perception, weightless, continuous, 'forces' in a 'field'.
Investigating the idea of a more general approach to art, residing in a televisual communications system, Marcia Lyons invites the 'observer' to 'activate' the environment.
The focus of the project is to create a prototype of a moving mixed-reality system, analogous to drifting from station to station, environmentality is extended live, “on-air”, utilizing Bluetooth locasting to the street, live-feed data networking from remote locations, Lyons' creates a mixed reality creative interference.