Gallery Installation

Artist: Julia Sher

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York 1998

Part of group show Performance Anxiety at:

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 1998; SITE SanteFe 1998; Chicago MCA 1998

CAPC, Bordeaux 2000

Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna 2000

Larry Shea: Video and Interaction Design:

An interactive “smart-room” was created with MAX/MSP controlling the sequence of audio and lighting effects based on internal programming and user input via a toy keyboard. Two characters “The Queen” and “Alice” verbally spar and each have their preferred lighting, leading the installation to exhibit several behaviors or feelings over time. This conflict was mirrored structurally, by having two laptops each attempting to control the lightboard via midi commands. The viewers experience an environment created by this conflict. The toy keyboard allows viewers to trigger various sound/light cues, such as “off with her head” and a guillotine sound effect and its corresponding light cue.

Wonderland traveled to several American and European venues, in modified forms.