m00r

Mixed media installation, 2005

"m00r" was a collaborative creation, a primitive digital entity involving 2 connected spaces and a blog, constructed to comment on and examine some of the basic tenets of person/person/machine/environment interaction. The outer area serves as waiting room, conversation space and archival storage for m00r's output. It contains print and video outputs representing the emotional and libidinal state of m00r, taken from a blog maintained by our group for the 6 months previous to the installation, documenting m00r- the fictional character's- passage through the urban cracks of Tel Aviv. The urban architectures on the monitors (snapshots taken at the locations mentioned on the blog) morph according to m00r's "mood" and"libidinal excitement". These states are influenced by the actions of the solitary visitor allowed within the empty inner room. The inner room contains sensitive zones (much like bodily erogenic areas), each a different element in the room's soundscape. If a person lingers on a sensitive zone, the entire soundscape becomes more and more excited. Movement influenced m00r's mood for the better, stillness- for the worst. At any time, m00r could go into a "tantrum", attempting to expel the visitor from the inner room.

Participants: Belinda Kain, Nadav Assor, Irad Lee, Merav Ben Zaken, Racheli Rotner

Exhibited: the Midrahsa School of Art; presented at the Upgrade!, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

Media: Blog, specially constructed two room structure, video monitors, camera, archival tables, benches, laser printer, paper, custom interaction, audio and video software