CONTROL CLUB A/V
Keywords: Audio Visual, Ludopolitics, Domestication
Materials: Leap Motion, Unreal Engine5, Touch Designer
“An experimental audiovisual performance that uses game engines and sensors to explore the theme of control in modern society through a surreal and non-linear visual narrative.“
This audiovisual live performance is composed of three chapters, where game engines interact with performers and sensors to drive the visual narrative, exploring new possibilities in visual storytelling. In the modern world, the spaces we live and act in automatically impose control on us, shaping our daily rituals. Each space carries pre-set meanings, guiding us along predetermined paths.
Through the creation of virtual spaces, this work highlights the absurdity and discord of alienated contemporary landscapes. The performers directly experience this “control,” arranging moving images through rhythmic patterns in a nonlinear or synthetic way. Noise flicker, complex rhythms, generative animations, real-time video synthesis, and controlled interventions in 3D space blend together to surrealistically depict the boundary between screen and reality.
MurphyNile（b.2000） is a transmedia artist based between London and Shanghai. His work focuses on creating 3D environments, experimental video games, and audiovisual live performances. His art explores the anxieties of subcultures in the post-internet age and the shifting nature of virtual identities. Using ideas from video game culture, he looks at the blurred line between online and offline worlds, creating dystopian visions that reflect our technology-driven society. He also examines how screens and technology change the way we see the present and the past. Recently, his projects have focused on the feeling of alienation in today’s media-driven world, building absurd game worlds that represent the empty spaces of a tech-dominated society.
His work has been shown in Berlin Germany (Galerie Me Gallery, Superbooth Electronic Instruments Festival ), in Shanghai China (Cadillac Shanghai Concert Hall, WestBund Museum), in Chiang Mai Thailand (SOME SPACE GALLERY), in Chungking China (1st International Light Art Festival).
