This Island, and its buildings, is our private paradise (web version)

The web version of 'This Island' on Skelf SITE positions a video of the man welcoming the viewer to his island on the home page of the site, users then click through to the main exhibition’s page. Footage looking out into high-rise, night-time lights from the rotating restaurant form the page background, a static yet revolving frame for the other page elements. The page features – text blocks, anchor shaped hotspots, videos and audio clips – scroll over the top of the revolving background, controlled by the computer user. The scripted monologues of the islander (written in collaboration with novelist Yannick Hill), become blocks of text and an audio file that activates as the user scrolls down the page.

Videos in between the text include, footage of a car circling a roundabout (that was included in the previous installation version), Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers singing Islands in the Stream (1983) from a YouTube video and a clip of the sea shore at night (both previously formed one of my searches in the performance version). Positioned next to strategic elements of the page, anchor symbols mark points at which the viewer can activate the appearance of text from the screen play and the script of a narrator who ruminates on the previous versions of the work (written in collaboration with art writer Rachel Emily Taylor). This web version incorporates multiple voices, that form a polyphonic sound track to the work. These include computer voice-over narration, the voices of the passenger and driver around the roundabout, one of the monologue speeches and Parton and Rogers’s song.

• Organisation
• http://www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk/sin...
• http://www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk/mai...
• http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/maia...
• http://www.skelf.org