Silvers Alter

Silvers Alter is an interactive installation that takes the form of a large-scale projection within which human forms ‘live’.

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As visitors move within the space the figures represented in the work are changed. The audience can therefore shape the flow of random mutation and direct the evolutionary course of these generative figures in a real-time experience. This physical interaction encourages social, physical and verbal interaction between viewers. Silvers Alter explores the development of consciousness and science. It gives the audience the power to create, eliminate and stare, to immortalise their created offspring in data image banks and DNA profiles. Generations are displayed in a growing archive of screen-grab prints pinned around the space – a record of the changing population over time. It raises many questions about the extent we are prepared to participate in all that we have made possible and, by implication, all that we aspire to make possible for ourselves. Decisions, and their effects generations later, can be seen like evolution in fast forward. Produced originally by The Arts Catalyst London Photos: Courtesy of the Artist