Ahmed Basiony
The artist died of gunshot wounds inflicted by snipers on Tahrir Square in 2011. His art projects, teaching, and last days.
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Interactive multimedia project
The room was enclosed in transparent plastic sheets. In it, Basiony performed daily for one hour wearing a plastic suit, designed especially for this project, that covered him completely with digital sensors to calculate the amount of sweat produced and the number of steps taken while he jogged around the room. The data was then transferred wirelessly to the computer that projected it onto a large screen with a graphic grid and geometrical coloured shapes that changed in accordance with the physiological changes in his body as he moved, creating an interactive relation between the living body and the digital system in an aesthetic manifestation of colour and shape.
© Photo: Ahmed Basiony's family
The artist died of gunshot wounds inflicted by snipers on Tahrir Square in 2011. His art projects, teaching, and last days.