MovieScape: Enactive Experience with Silent Movie Audiovisual and Multimodal Installation

Abstract

The multi-modal installation MovieScape articulates sound, image and movement with the poetic frame of Silent Cinema. It is an immersive mixed-reality environment in which the boundaries between the real and the virtual are imprecise and ambiguous. In MovieScape, an audiovisual landscape is selected with an imaginary steering wheel that is activated when the visitor closes both fists. A sphere covered with images of silent cinema is modified with rotations and displacements that alter the succession of scenes, the musical track and the sound landscape. The interaction between perception and action/movement brings about an enactive experience in which the participant immerses in the possibilities of the silent movie. The creation of MovieScape is the result of a participatory methodology. This proposal is linked to the article "MovieScape: Audiovisual Landscapes for Silent Movie" submitted to ARTECH 2019 by the same authors.