Adaptive Bloom, 2011
Materials: Mechanical flowers,processing 5.1 software, sensors
Dimensions: 2m x 2m
Auction Reserve: £9,500

Adaptive Bloom is a responsive screen speculatively proposed as a stage set. Blooming mechanical flowers are used as pixels in a grid formation responding to movement. It draws on the balletic tradition of a choreographic poem combining narrative, choreography and score. The work is conceived as the backdrop to a holistic improvised performance featuring an aleatoric score (from the Latin word alea meaning ‘dice’), with the dreamlike behaviour of the screen responding to the interplay of a male/female dance pair. It is framed from a narrative taken from the song ‘Busby Berkeley dreams’.