Martin Rieser Artist and Writer Installations
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2004-5 Hosts Situated project in Bath Abbey and Locative project across Bath/ Funded : AHRB Bath Spa University/ Collaborators: Wearable Computing Group Bristol University
Residencies include: 1996 Watershed/Cambridge Darkroom residency which involved constructing a self-curating web site and multimedia piece called Screening the Virus, based around publicly submitted artwork on HIV/Aids related themes. This was later short listed for a Wellcome Trust Sci-Art award.
In 1992 He also directed the Media Myth and Mania section of the joint Watershed/Artec exhibition and CD publication From Silver to Silicon. The latter piece has been shown at many venues around the world including Milia in Cannes; Paris; ICA and the Photographer’s Gallery, London and at ISEA Montreal.
2002 Triple Echo won an AHRB award and involves a three screen interactive video depicting a love triangle based on the Orpheus legends.
Other visual research projects included the direction of a collaboration involving five other artists (collectively known as Ship of Fools) using the subject of mythologies to explore the full range of narrative and visual interfaces in interactive media in a piece called Labyrinth 1997
n 1990, created an interactive exhibition utilising giant digital panels and interactive sound installations with an accompanying multimedia program on the theme of the Electronic Forest.
Later commissions were 1999-2000 Understanding Echo, funded by the DA2 Open Commission. An interactive video drama,it was shown at the Cheltenham literary festival, Watershed Bristol and at ISEA2002 in Nagoya Japan.
1997 Here Be Unicorns site specific installation in central Bristol.
IStarshed 2005 a commission for Electric Pavilion maps tales of the uncanny onto an entire city using mobile technologies Starshed
The Street- An interactive video panorama shown in RMIT Gallery Melbourne Autumn 2008 as part of HEAT: The Art of Climate Change.
1995-7 Orbit an interactive Millennium Project based on the planets
Riverains 2008 A Mobile artwork for Manchester commissioned as part of the b.Tween Festival Exploding Narrative Initiative
The Third Woman 2008 : An Interactive mobile film for the emobilart project set in Vienna
Secret Door Part of ArtHotel 2005 at Invideo Milan-A reactive video drama in a site specific location