Chris Hales: CAUSE AND EFFECT

Interactive "movie maker" Chris Hales, once again in Kibla.

Cause and Effect
An interactive video installation that screams for the physical inclusion of the visitors!

On Wednesday, 23 June 2004, an interactive cinema performance by Chris Hales and Teijo Pellinen took place in MMC Kibla, space for art KiBela, Kneza Koclja 9, 2000 Maribor.

Chris Hales and Teijo Pellinen involved the visitors in their project platform Cause and Effect. The platform enables the indirect interaction of the audience, whereby they can change and influence the content of the film. The power of the interaction is determined physically; for example, if the visitors were loud enough, they broke all the glasses in the film. The performance included 90 minutes of films and it can also be described as a hybrid between cinema and theatre.

Chris Hales made a similar great impact on the public as he did last year. Last year he presented himself with the project Effect/Affect. The project included a selection of his interactive films, which can be described as a temporal development of his work and approach. The performance was supported by the Slovene Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Maribor and ŠOU Maribor.

About the authors:
Chris Hales has been dealing with interactive film since 1995. During this time he has created more than 15 interactive movies and published several theoretical articles related to this subject. He finished his post-graduate studies of interactive design at the Royal College of art. At the moment he is preparing a dissertation on interactive film as independent genre. He works as a guest lecturer at St. Martin's College of Art in London. His works were presented at Transmediale Berlin, dART Sydney, FCMM Montreal, Videolisboa Lizbona in Sheffield Documentary.
Teijo Pellinen: a lecturer at the University of Art and Design, Helsinki.His greatest projects are Akvaario, PlazaTV, Kino Kabaret Helsinki itd.