Frankenstein's Monster  
Eisenstein's Monster

by babel
[v1 - 2002, v2 - 2004, v2.5 (autoplay) - 2005, v2.6 (info) - 2007]


Make your own video monsters - Eisenstein's Monster is a tongue-in-cheek coupling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the montage theories of Sergei Eisenstein.

In the interactive version the participant is invited to create, shape and twist their own creatures: biological life is transformed through digital video and Flash and back through the choices of the biological user, becoming reprocessed biodigital lifeforms.

The autoplay version - where the computer plays God - is designed for situations where user input is impossible.

While the piece is intended to be light-hearted, our collective fear of science playing God lurks here, as it did in Shelley's original.


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  Eisenstein's Montage
Frankenstein's Monster       Sergei Eisenstein