Hosts: An interactive cinema work in public space

This paper examines the concept, staging and evaluation of hosts: an interactive cinema work using ultrasound sensing and infrared sound transmission in the large public spaces of Bath Abbey. The work was based on the unique assignment of video characters to specific audience members, the characters moving from one projection screen to another in response to spectator movement. The authors consider the artistic and technical issues in mounting the work and analyze the nature of audience responses and the possibility of further the development of such work using locative technologies.