Cure For Surveillance

Jonah Bokaer and Liubo Borissov have collaborated to create “A Cure For Surveillance (2007),” a public art installation integrating digital media and recorded performance, designed specifically for the gallery space of Dance Theater Workshop. The work addresses the human body in a built domain of digital media, and is designed both to utilize and critique contemporary technologies of surveillance in our society. With this in mind, the artists have used motion capture technology to pre-record an archive of movement phrases, displayed in the installation as a way of heightening interactivity with pedestrians in the public space of DTW. Through a number of live cameras installed in the gallery space, the images of these pedestrians will be recorded upon entrance into DTW, and will be projected onto the outer window of the facilities, creating a dichotomy between inner and outer space. The interplay between public and private space is also examined in this installation. The artists have had access to a state of the art, 20-camera LED motion capture system to develop material for this project, due to the outstanding generosity of Greg Worley/WorleyWorks. The artists have also had access to the facilities, inventory, and administrative support of DTW. Special Thanks to Kevin Baumlin, Christopher Eamon, Maya Ciarrocchi, Marion Dienstag, Brian Rogers, David Sheingold, and Greg Worley/WorleyWorks.