Established in 2007 captincaptin is a collaboration, which amalgamates the practices of artists Gareth Goodison and Jonathan Munro. Through this collaboration captincaptin has explored the possibilities of user dependant interactive installations and sculptures. Creating artworks that can only exist in a completed form when the viewer actively engages with them, encouraging the audience to re-address their role in the display and creation of contemporary art. This can be achieved through a variety of different sensory interactions such as moving, touching, speaking and breathing.
With the use of triggers and sensors, physical interfacing is enabled through basic electronic circuits, robotics and computer software. The sculptures and installations dynamically respond to changes within their environmental space, sensing a person’s presence and engagement. This interaction between artwork and viewer is not always apparent, a person may move within the environment of the installation and be unaware as to the direct response of their involvement.
At the beginning of 2009 captincaptin founded TINT. An artist run organisation, providing a platform for open discourse, experimentation and display of digital/analog hybrid art forms, which are predominately interactive, responsive, user aware and audience led.