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This Machine is an interactive exhibition that explores how we can personify a machine through projections, lighting, and sound. Using your body, you can engage with the machine, exploring how your movements elicit changes to the space, and how the space influences your movements. It’s as if you’re having a conversation with the machine, creating a dialogue with it, an engagement that is unique to it, and to you. Is the machine living? Does it feel anything humanlike?Over the course of three weekly activations, This Machine will evolve from the prior installation. Based upon its engagement with people in the space, the machine will learn how to be more human, and grow beyond the bounds of its digital constraints. 

Installation Activations
Feb 1  7pm to 9pm
Feb 8  7pm to 9pm
Feb 21 7pm to 9pm

BIO
Nathan Bruce is a projection designer and video artist based in Toronto, Ontario. Some of his recent credits include projection design for Flight with the GGS, Assistant Lighting Design for Comedy Is Art at the Theatre Centre, and projection design for The Walk-Up with the Soulpepper Academy. Beyond the theatre, Nathan’s projects largely focus on interactive New Media design. His work explores how the body is used to inform design, how design influences the body, and how these two aspects of his work can be used to create visceral experiences with interactive technologies.

In the Spring, Nathan will be working at the Shaw Festival as an Assistant Lighting Designer for their upcoming festival season.