Interactive Video Installation ALIEN SPACE by Alexandra Dementieva
Programming MAC:  Bart Vandeput; Sound objects:  Ludo Engels; Set design:  Marcus Bering; 3D animation:  Real Reality
Production Support:  Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Nadine vzw, CCNOA, Adem vzw

‘Alien space’ is presented as a miniature of the human universe:  it is amazing, cruel, childish, stupid, beautiful and fragile at the same time.  It reacts to all outside stimuli as well as internal changes – every movement by a visitor triggers either sound or image and changes its composition.

The installation consists of 800 balloons forming 2 corridors leading to a central circular space.  Images of various international television personalities continually mutating into extraterrestrials and robots are projected onto the balloons. The sound environment consists of recordings in 67 languages that mix in a Babylonian cacophony. Throughout his stay in the installation, the visitor is immersed in a constant flux of clear and blurred images and sounds that affect him both physically and emotionally.