KMA

KMA is a collaboration between UK media artists Kit Monkman and Tom Wexler. Their work is primarily focused on illuminating, encouraging, and developing, interactions between people in public spaces using projected light. In 2008 KMA were commissioned to create a new piece for DanceDigital, Waves, an interactive light installation, which was presented in Southend and Chelmsford.

KMA’s work creates large, immersive, sometimes networked, ‘digital playgrounds’, in which distinctions between audiences and performers disappear. The resulting social engagements reaffirm the urban community through embodied, rather than verbal, discourse.

These massive engagements in social play generate diverse audiences, free from social barriers. The participants take ownership of the work and the environment in which it is staged, creating a sense of event that in itself informs and illuminates the public space.