FWDrift [remix], audio-video performance, 2005-2010
Julie Andreyev and Simon Overstall

FWDrift [remix] is a multi-media performance using audio and video recordings generated by a custom-equipped, data-gathering car driven through the city. In preparation for the performance, video and sound of the city, and sound within the private/social space of the car – the engine sounds, conversations, the choice of music played on the car’s stereo – are recorded. Cameras and interactive technologies provide recorded video imagery of the city manipulated by the interaction of the car and driver. These video and audio records are the playlist used to generate a live video panorama and a musical soundscape during a FWDrift [remix] performance.

Supported by: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Canada Council for the Arts; British Columbia Arts Council

Previously performed at:

• “passages”, 2010, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada;
• ACM MM 2008 Conference, Telus Science World, Vancouver;
• Nuit Blanche 2007, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto;
• Digital Art Weeks 2006, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich;
• Computational Poetics 2006: A Logic Machines and Creative Process Gathering, Vancouver;
• Interactive Futures Conference 2006, Victoria, Canada;
• Pace Digital Gallery, 2005, New York;
• Elektra Festival 2005, Montreal;
• Digifest 2004 “On the Move”, Toronto;
• 2004 live webcast: (collaboration with Jordan Benwick), for “nonTVTVstation”, Splintermind, Stockholm, Sweden.