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Bondage, 2004
Interactive, computer-generated single-channel color projection on vertical screen with multi-channel sound; based on a photograph by Nobuyoshi Araki; sound-image synthesis engine by Ali Momeni
126 x 174 x 71 in.
Courtesy the artist; co-produced by Le Fresnoy and La Villette Numérique

The visual material in Bondage (adapted from a photograph by Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki) becomes both a vehicle for and a source for sound. In tandem with the viewer’s movements, segments of the image appear and disappear, pane by pane, on the paper screen. The sounds, which evoke the harmonic overtones of gagaku instruments, are entirely digital. They are derived from the pixels of the image, and are altered by the viewer’s movements.