An interactive telepresent installation designed for public audiences in Delhi and London

3x4 Installation

Using a live telematic videoconference connection, the installation functioned between two geographically distant audiences located in separate 3x4 metre blue-box room installations at Khoj Studios, New Delhi and the Southbank Centre, London. The audience groups in these green and blue-box spaces are captured on camera and brought together through a system of live chroma-keying and are placed onto a computer-generated background image. The complete composited image is then displayed simultaneously on large LCD video screens in both locations. As the merged audiences start to explore this shared telepresent space they encounter the digital background environment they now both coexist within. These background scenes directly reference their combined social setting, ranging from informal settlement dwellings and Delhi environments to contemporary compact interior designs, micro living solutions and imagined worlds.

3x4 was premiered at the UnBox Festival in New Delhi from 12 to 14 December 2014 and is featured at the Alchemy Festival at Southbank Centre London from 15 to 25 May 2015.

Festival Village, Southbank Centre London (left), Khoj International Artists' Association, Khirkee Extension, New Delhi (right).