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The Living Image is a virtual reality
art installation exhibited at the Science Museum in London throughout
May 2004. It is based on a psycho-geography of London, and especially
the dark, forgotten or transformed spaces in which I grew up.
You can find out more from the website at http://www.thelivingimage.org/
The Science Museum commission stemmed
from the success of my 2001 computer installation 'LAM'. LAM is
about using the artistic format to offer a new kind of experience
through technology, a very personal and intimate one, an experience
of technology as a door or walkway to be totally absorbed in a
new kind of art. LAM is immersive but does not represent in the
way VR has done but is more of a journey inward through the structures
that LAM places around you. LAM was totally developed on Open
Source 'free' software and was run on UNIX based servers.
Much of my work to date has examined
the way in which interaction can be used to access the unconscious.
Over the past nearly 15 years I have undertaken regular experiments
into immersion, trance and sensorydeprivation. This experimentation
has led me to create works which allow the public to have an experience
directly through the work via techniques from NLP and hypnosis.
Works such as 'Epicene' which was a fully hypnotic experience,
and creates visual imagery and a range of emotions for the participant.
This experience was designed to be both challenging and intimate,
everyone would walk away with a different understanding of what
they had seen/heard.
There is also a strong social dynamic
in my work which comes from my own background and experiences
in London. I came from a working class family and grew up in a
very small flat in a tower block I think this slightly claustrophobic
environment is partly what inspired my interest in the possibilities
of the mind.
Please also take a look at my website: http://www.grahamnicholls.com
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