NOH use realtime performance software VVVV for all their live shows. Last autumn Mike was invited to do a talk at the london based VVVV artists’ group V4W. That led on to an invite from Hayden and Gareth Griffiths to collaborate on a bespoke art project for Freemote festival 2011 in Utrecht, Holland with a simple brief – given a simple theme (“threshold”), come up with an interactive digital piece using kinect cameras, vvvv and some audio via max/msp in four days to be shown on the final night of the festival.

Visitors to the festival were able to wander up and chat to us while we worked and so in essence the art became more about exposing the process rather than the final result, in getting a disparate group of people to generate something from scratch. The group dynamics were interesting (less hierarchical than on, say, a commercial project), and this had a lot of parallels with the way NOH like to work.

And we learned a lot about using kinects in interactive art…maybe they’ll find their way into an NOH show one day.

Andy Mcwilliams talks about the process in more depth on his blog.

Some video of the final results…