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Review From Techne/Invideo Festival
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Visitors to the piece take a seat and interact with each other and the virtual guests. Audiences have responded with a mixture of delight and intrigue, finding pleasure in the opportunity to engage and interact both physically and emotionally. The dinner party, transformed into a virtual event, the dinner table transformed into a cinema screen, prompts us to look at familiar events with new eyes.
Terry Flaxton, June 2005
Where The Dinner Party has taken place:
Phoenix Arts, Glastonbury Festival, June 2004
Phoenix Arts Centre Glastonbury September 2004
The Hotel, An Artists Occupation, Bristol May 2005
Frome Media Festival, May 2005
Glastonbury Digital Visions June 2005
Techne Gallery, Milan 2005
Dartington College, New Media Conference, September 2006
Bordeaux Quay, Bristol, September 2006
Milan Number 9 Hotel, November 2006
Strasbourg February 2007
Wells Cathedral March 2007
Bristol 2004
Monza, Nov 2006
You enter a room in which a table is surrounded by 8 chairs. There is a dinner party going on but there are no guests: instead there are the images of their hands, plates, food, wine, projected from above onto the white tablecloth - but also there are 8 white plates which further confuse the illusion created between the virtual and the real.
Dartington 2006