Martin Rieser Artist and Writer Installations

 

2004-5 Hosts Situated project in Bath Abbey and Locative project across Bath

Funded : AHRB Bath Spa University

Collaborators: Wearable Computing Group Bristol University

 

2002 Triple Echo won an AHRB award and involves a three screen interactive video depicting a love triangle based on the Orpheus legends.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

1997 Here Be Unicorns site specific installation in central Bristol.

 

1995-7 Orbit an interactive Millennium Project based on the planets

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

In 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.

 

Starshed 2005 a commission for Electric Pavilion maps tales of the uncanny onto an entire city using mobile technologies Starshed