The Consumers

This performance arose as the consequence of the development of AVIARy - Audio Visual Interactive Augmented Reality - a system dveloped in collaboration between the University of Melbourne (Peter Morse, Tim Barrass) and the CSIRO Advanced Audio Interfaces Group (Stephen Barrass, Matt Adcock.) It utilises the ARToolkit developed by the HITLab, and was an experiment in audio augmented reality.

In concert with Alistair Riddell, Anita Fitton (ANU) and OnacloV from the Canberra school of Art we staged this rather weird event for the Liquid Architecture 6 Sound Festival at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

The blurb went:
(2005) To tantalise all senses, Liquid Architecture also presents Edible audience by The Consumers. Four guests dine on auditory aperitifs, feasting on the faces of the audience to produce a gastronomic sound-scape. This interactive sound art interface was programmed by Tim Barrass, and is performed by Stephen Barrass, Anita Fitton and Onaclov from the University of Canberra, and Alistair Riddell from the Australian National University. The Augmented Reality System (AVIARY) used to track the food was developed in collaboration with Peter Morse from the University of Melbourne.