Smoke Signals

Smoke Signals, is a project mixing primitive (smoke signals) and contemporary communication technologies (text messaging). Its' first performance was in June of 2006, and a second event was performed in Bristol, September 15.

Minimaforms creates two ephemeral speaking cloud structures as part of OFFLOAD festival in Bristol, UK.

The clouds are instruments of communication that enable conversation through their ability to hybridize the ancient visual communication practice of smoke signaling with contemporary cell phone (sms) messaging.

Participants engage in a collective act of writing space through the use of light as a virtual writing machine onto ephemeral plumes of smoke.

The first smoke signal floated across the heart of Bristol's cultural quarter and waterside located outside of the watershed media center. The second took place in a disused cathedral called at the peak of Bristol in Park Place.

"The event closed with avant garde architects - Minimaforms' breathtaking Smoke Signals - a huge projection of real-time audience generated text messages onto plumes of smoke, whilst a simultaneous smoke signals floats over Bristol Waterfront. In addition to this you will experience this with a rare performance of Steve Reich's Pendulum Music."

emily | 8:38 AM | SMS Arts and Activism |
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