As a development of their Window Works project, Ludic Rooms have been commissioned to produce a new digital media installation that utilises the display area of a shop window as an interactive interface. Visitors touch and interact with the window and moving domes of light are created and manipulated, splitting and rejoining as the users touch the window. In addition, the users’ interaction will create a textural soundscape which is amplified through the glass, using the window as a giant speaker. At the very centre of this project is our ambition to improve engagement through user participation and play. Our main project aims are to remove barriers to engagement to digital art. By creating a piece that works outside of the barriers of a gallery or museum context, we aim to encourage the broadening of audiences for artistic practice within the city. We aim to raise the profile of Stoke as a centre for producing imaginative work with a national focus and to create an arts experience that will engage a casual audience which can be enjoyed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
This piece is fundamentally about play and interaction, and is intended to be approachable and unthreatening to a broadly non-traditional arts audience. It takes place outside of a traditional arts venue (museum / gallery) and as such breaks down barriers to engagement for a new and broadened audience to experience high-quality modern artistic practice.
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