THE HYBRID GLOBE

As with to other communal activities in the public realm, parades, in their essence, revolve around interaction. Audience interactsamong themselves & with the spectacle, molding an ephemeral ambience which represents the identity of the parade at the moment. Thus, the parade is primarilya temporal experience, with dynamic social interactions negotiated between diverse participants and the detailed character of the parade not fully predictable.

 

The HYBRID GLOBE aims to capture this ephemeral aspect of the parade within an interactive artifact: a polyhedral sphere withanimated colours& images projected ontoits surface.The audience actively participates in the creative process; the composition, density & rhythm of changes to the projections are defined bysocial engagement. 

 

In this parade, the HYBRID GLOBE becomes a public vehicle for the audience to become participants – to socially interact with others or, as Arendt puts it, to createa place to “appear to others as they appear to me.”

 

The pure & powerful geometry of the sphere is both familiar & strange. It is deployed here as an armature for carrying the temporal imaging (& imaginings) that will create a spatial & social experience in the environment that will exist amongst the social participants during Nuit Blanche.