Sequence of Spaces 02 transformed the way I thought about creative work. It was the first-time I'd been involved in something that utilises interactivity with performance. Although not a new concept for the time, it was pushing the boundaries my personal practice and opened up a type of creative thinking that had influenced me in my creative direction today.
My role in the project had been the interaction designer in which would weave together performance, audience play and a collective visual projection all in the one space. Audience members would be walking into a fake restaurant space in which they were given physical pamphlets in which a QR code was present. This was how the audience members had used their phones to engage with the space itself. The QR code linked to a satirical menu, designed by Ava Vu, the buttons itself were fed into the live projection of a reciept that showed the audience member's fake order. While people were ordering, the numbers and pricing were the contributions to a collective debt that was projected on screen as well, which also became the threshold markers for the performers to interrogate and act amongst the crowd.
What resulted was one of the most chaotic two nights I had experienced in my new media practice and this was the most "new media" I had ever gotten in terms of experimentation and cross-pollination of mediums.
SOS2 had also started an entire series of works that had involved a phone-based interaction with a projection or collective visual, including Held, Instantaneously and Pack Mentality.