Ingrid Bachmann: www.ingridbachmann.com/site/splash.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfCAjFT-NIk&feature=related
I used to live in Chicago where I spent a lot of time at the Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago. One of the things I would do is record the amount of time people actually spent looking at the art. I was surprised at how little time people actually spent with the work. The average amount of time was 05 seconds. (They spent considerably more time in the gift store.) This included blockbuster exhibitions like the annual Impressionist’s exhibition as well as the permanent collection in the historical and contemporary galleries. While I am aware, as are most advertisers, of the powerful impact of retinal after-image, I decided I wanted to try to make work that could sustain a longer viewing time. I work primarily with interactive and generative media. I work with all levels of technology from redundant to relatively state-of–the-art digital media. My main interest is with the experience of the viewer. I like to work site-specifically but as those situations are often difficult to come by, I also try to create the unique experience of site specificity and installation in smaller works. In my work, I am interested in creating visually rich, immersive and interactive environments – spaces where different levels of interactions and interventions can take place. I hope to create situations which allow for a variety of levels of participation and creating circumstances or systems that can develop their own dynamic and ones which function, to varying degrees, independently of me. I hope the works provide wonder and delight, as well as critical engagement.
