C E L L, an interactive installation commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival is now available for touring and exhibition. This interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements.

As our identities become deliberately constructed and broadcast commodities, our projected personae increasingly enmesh and define us. Cell acts as a virtual mirror, displaying a constructed fictional persona in place of our physical form. Composed from keyword tags mined from online profiles, these second selves stalk our movements through space, building in size and density over time. The resulting forms are alternate, technologically refracted manifestations of the body, revealing the digital aura while simultaneously allowing us escape from our own constructed identities.

Created by:
Keiichi Matsuda is a designer and film-maker.
keiichimatsuda.com

James Alliban is a new media artist and international speaker from London.
jamesalliban.co.uk

http://installcell.com/

CELL has been featured in:
- WIRED magazine
- Creative Applications
- Design Week
- Computer Arts

If you would like to have CELL installed in your gallery or at your event contact [email protected] for more information.

Initial concept design by James Alliban and Keiichi Matsuda. Photograph by Ghaasan Daghestani