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Tamburi has a strikingly sensuous interface: in order to interact with the installation, visitors manipulate images and sounds (sampled and virtually generated drum sounds) by interacting with four large tambourines. Enlarged images of human hands, with palms facing up, are projected onto the surface of the tambourines. Whenever one of the visitors beats a drum, a hand appears on the drumhead. Little objects appear at random at various places on the upturned palms, which then suddenly clutch the objects with an abrupt motion. While they close over the objects, the modulated drum sounds fade away in the real and virtual space. Tamburi combines the two motifs of the drum and the human hand—one of the oldest means of communication and humanity’s most important tool—in order to embody core concepts of our cultural traditions and historical cultures in interactive form. Beginning on October, 2004, users may also participate in the installation via Internet at a homepage created specially for the installation at: www.studioazzurro.com/tamburi Studio Azzurro was founded as an artistic video production workshop in Milan, Italy in 1982. The artists group is regarded as a pioneer in the development and realization of interactive video installations and scenographies. Created by Fabio Cirifino (photography), Paolo Rosa (visual arts), and Leonardo Sanglorgi (graphic art and animation), the team was joined by Stefan Roveda (interactive systems) in 1995. In its works, Studio Azzurro explores the threshold between material and immateriality. The team of artists constructs worlds in which it shows spectators the imperceptible transition from nature to artifice and makes a new dimension of seeing and feeling available to them. Studio Azzurro first came to international attention as early as 1984, with the work Der Schwimmer (The Swimmer), which was shown at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice. Since then the group has realized more than fifty video pieces, some of them interactive, and presented numerous theater and film productions at venues including documenta 8 in Kassel. Studio Azzurro has produced a wide variety of video and TV programs in Italy and abroad, organized workshops and seminars, and published numerous writings. » TAMBURI Photos » TAMBURI Press Reviews » STUDIO AZZURRO Homepage |
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