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Having been working on several projects together over the past nine years, the authors—an artist and a curator both specialized in computational and media art —discuss a range of issues that have arisen during the installation of Edmonds’ generative interactive artwork Shaping Space in each of the six locations where it has been shown. The work arose in part from significant experiences by Edmonds in the work discussed in Chap. 6 by Deborah Turnbull Tillman, and by the collaborators Matthew Connell and Lizzie Muller . The installations of Shaping Space described range from its first at the Site Gallery in Sheffield, UK (2012), a contemporary art space specializing in moving image , new media and performance, to its latest at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice (2017), a historical not-for-profit institution that supports more traditional and current developments in contemporary art practice . Technical and aesthetic questions arose, and pragmatics sometimes caused interesting unexpected innovation. What was the inspiration behind these works? Are they connected to each other, and if so, how? What were the major challenges in installing each iteration of the work? How did the different institutions involved in installing the work over the years approached and solved the technical issues around the installation? How did the various venues and surrounding environment influence the work?
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Edmonds, E., Franco, F. (2019). Evolving Installations: “Shaping Space”. In: Giannini, T., Bowen, J. (eds) Museums and Digital Culture. Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97457-6_18
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