STAMMER ( occedentalism 2007)
STAMMER ( occedentalism 2007)

Stammer, Interactive project, 2007
STAMMER is an experimental interactive art project that is presented in the form of a multi-media installation.
The following young artists participated in its presentation:

  1. Ahmed Basiouny’s “Digital Sound Art”
  2. Magdy El Sayed’s “Digital Sound Art”
  3. Hossam Hodhod “Performance and Video Art,”
  4. Youssef Ragheb  “Sequential Art and digital Interactivity,”

 

This project deals with the idea of stammering through opposing perspectives. The idea of disability and isolation related to that phenomenon is in contradiction with the outward oriented physical/social interaction that specifies the role of the body in the process of shaping and reshaping culture. Four media artists have introduced this aspect through four media and performance experiments:

Artist Ahmed Bassiouny presented the idea in an interactive manner, giving the viewer the choice between the vocal identity interpreted through a light system and the identity of the self/ image. In this, alternate roles appear in a power struggle that changes identity with every new participant who has his or her face captured by the surveillance camera.

Artist Magdy Mostafa: The presentation constitutes of experiments in digital sound art, recording everyday environmental sounds within the space of the exhibition hall to be played once again after being digitally manipulated into atmospheric soundscapes that suggest alternate virtual environments.
Artist Hossam Hodhod invites the audience in his everyday performance throughout the ten days of the exhibition to manipulate and reshape his face through a huge mass of modeling clay, thus inviting the viewers to recreate a new identity in every moment of the performance for about a whole hour.
Artist Youssef Ragheb invites the viewer to step into the space of the interactive artwork through a three dimensional screen in order to interact with a digital world created by icons of western culture floating in space and around the audience. These icons became a part of our Eastern culture through mass media. The artist links each icon to a vocal commentary or sound that creates either a cynical or a dramatic critique through the interchange of icons and sounds.