Davy and Kristin McGuire

The Icebook

During a 4 month residency at the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Davy and Kristin created the Icebook, the world's first projection mapped pop up book in which a story is back projected onto the pages of the book. After putting a trailer of the work online, it went viral with 134.909 hits in February 2011 and launched the pair as an artist duo who had invented a new artistic medium by fusing projection mapping, paper craft, book art, theatre, performance and animation.

The Icebook has been featured internationally on TV (Canal+ in France, Deutsche Welle in Germany and on NHK in Japan), as well as being published in Digital Arts, Contagious Magazine and Elle Girl Korea and several thousand international websites and blogs. Since 2011 the Icebook has toured to art festivals, theatre festivals, digital art festivals, cinemas and film festivals, conferences and art galleries around Europe, America and Asia.

The Paper Architect

In 2013 Davy and Kristin received the Oxford Samuel Becket Theatre Award for their presentation of two projected paper dioramas, The Hunter and Psycho - Homage to Hitchcock. The production grant was awarded to create The Paper Architect, a theatre show blending paper craft, animation and live action, co-produced by the Barbican Centre London with CREATE in association with the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. The Paper Architect was invited to Perth International Arts Festival in 2015.

Howl's Moving Castle

For Christmas 2011, Davy and Kristin McGuire designed and directed a stage adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle at the Southwark Playhouse. The production involved actors interacting with live video projections onto a set that replicated a paper pop-up castle. Howl's Moving Castle was adapted for the stage by Mike Sizemore and featured an original score by Fyfe Dangerfield. The cast included Stephen Fry as narrator Daniel Ings as Howl, Susan Sheridan as old Sophie, James Wilkes as Calcifer and Kristin played the part of young Sophie and the Witch of the Waste. Prior to its premiere Howl's Moving Castle received considerable media attention featuring on TV BBC News London, The Late Show with Joanne Good on BBC Radio London, national press and BBC online. After initial challenges due to technical difficulties Howl's Moving Castle sold out during the last weeks of a 6 week run, and was produced by Southwark Playhouse and Arts Collective LTD

The production was Time Out's Critic's Choice in December and received four-star reviews from Metro and The Public Reviews. Reviews praised the imaginative staging, the groundbreaking and ambitious technical ability of the projections, and the visuals. Despite some mixed reviews the show was received as a production that successfully married film and theatre: "Is it a play, is it a film, is it an installation? No - it's super-theatre!"

Silent Movie

In 2007 Stroud Valleys Arts Space gave Davy and Kristin permission to create performance work for their annual Site Festival in Stroud. Davy and Kristin thus created and performed Silent Movie, a multimedia performance that mixes projections and live acting. The plot, which recounts a love story between a couple, is evocative of the silent movie genre from the beginning of the 20th century. The performance is viewed by an audience of 15 people through peep holes made in the front wall of a huge wooden box or a shopping window. In 2008 Silent Movie was shown at the Macau Arts Festival in China.

L'Alchimie de Courvoisier

Courvoisier commissioned Davy and Kristin McGuire to create a bespoke theatrical installation for L’Atelier de Courvoisier in order to showcase the brand’s craftsmanship and the story of its history through a projected paper theatre. The installation which was displayed in Harrods of London in December 2012 received very positive media attention through Digital Arts Magazine, Computer Arts Magazine and a variety of marketing and branding websites.

Floating City

Barneys commissioned a team of artists headed by Joanie Lemercier to decorate the shop windows of their Madison Avenue store in New York for Christmas 2013. Floating City was a large scale animated paper architecture suspended inside one of the windows. The suspended paper model repeatedly transformed through projection mapping displaying a short looping New York time lapse.

A Journey to Wonderland

ELLE Magazine China commissioned Davy and Kristin to design and direct a short film featuring Chinese actress Xhou Zun wearing Chanel outfits and jewelry. The film was created as a digital accompaniment of a special 25th anniversary editorial for ELLE China‘s iPad edition.

The Hunter

As part of the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award short listing process Davy and Kristin created The Hunter, a projection mapped paper diorama which subsequently won the couple the award. The Hunter has since been exhibited at the 12th Quenington Sculpture Show, the Doddington Sculpture Show, as part of the McGuire's retrospective in Shoreditch Town Hall in London, the World of Projection Mapping Festival in Kagawa/Japan and A Lamb in Wolf's Clothing in Bermondsey, London.

Psycho - Homage to Hitchcock

Psycho - Homage to Hitchcock is a projection mapped paper diorama depicting a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho movie. The installation consists of a TV screen and a paper replica of the Bates' house depicting a murder scene in a shower. The documentation trailer of the installation received a staff pick on Vimeo.

Jam Jar Fairy Series

in 2013 the Royal Shakespeare Company commissioned Davy and Kristin to create Sprite Symphony, an art installation using pico projectors to create a display of holographic fairies projected into jam jars. The fairies knock and tap on their jars and thereby create a polyphonic musical composition. Sprite Symphony was exhibited in the RSC theatre foyer in Stratford upon Avon throughout winter 2013, at the Enchanted Parks in Newcastle/Gateshead in December 2013, as part of the McGuire's retrospective in Shoreditch Town Hall, at Queens Hall Arts Centre and as part of A Lamb in Wolf's Clothing in Bermondsey, London in 2014. The installation was later developed into individual units in order to accommodate the demand for purchasing individual fairy holograms, thus creating the Jam Jar Fairy Series.

The Ephemera Trilogy

The Ephemera Trilogy is a series of 3 art installations using projection mapping in order to animate 3 female characters made of 3 different materials. The Trilogy consists of The Haunted Dress, a distressed wedding dress on a mannequin; Ophelia‘s Ghost, a life sized holographic projection of Hamlet's Ophelia into a water filled basin; and The Alien Angel, a life size sculpture animated with projections. The Haunted Dress was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Opelia's Ghost was commissioned by Altered - Contemporary Art in Ancient Churches, and The Alien Angel was commissioned by the Newcastle/Gateshead Initiative for the Enchanted Parks 2014.

The Hitchcock Trilogy

The Hitchcock Trilogy is a variation on 3 iconic Hitchcock films sets made from paper and animated through light and video mapping. The series features 3 paper dioramas inspired by Rear Window and The Birds and Psycho.

Peepboardpleasure

In 2010, Davy and Kristin were awarded a second stipend from the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen for which they created the interactive video installation Peepboardpleasure - A Peep Board with a Twist. In the work, the illustrations of a traditional peep-through board are replaced by moving video projections. Passers by are needed to poke their head through the holes in the board, thus turning them into fictional moving characters. Peepboardpleasure has been shown in Bristol, as part of the Grüne Meile Festival in Germany, at Burdall's Yard in Bath and the Arts by the Sea Festival 2012 in Bournemouth.

The Girl with two Tone Hair and Pinboard

In 2008 the pair created their first music video, The Girl with two Tone Hair which they later turned into a video installation entitled Pinboard. Pinboard was first exhibited at the Stroud Site Festival in 2010. In 2011 the [1] Quenington Sculpture Trust awarded Davy and Kristin a bursary to include Pinboard in the trust's biennial showcase. Pinboard was part of Barn Gallery's Artspace, a showcase of their work at Burdall's Yard in Bath in 2012, their retrospective The Hunter at Shoreditch Town Hall in London and MEDI-ARTz Zushi Festival in Japan in 2014.

A Study of Eating Habits

In 2005 Davy and Kristin created their multimedia installation A Study of Eating Habits using early techniques of video projection mapping which has since become a signature of most of their works. For A Study of Eating Habits, the couple filmed themselves in their domestic environment over a period of a week and projected the sped up footage back onto the doors, tables and windows which they transferred from their house to a black box gallery space.

A Study of Eating Habits was shown at the 2006 European Media Arts Festival in Germany, the 2006 BBC Big Screen Liverpool and the 2008 Macau Arts Festival in China.

Music videos

American alternative rock band Thursday commissioned Davy and Kristin to direct and produce Magnets Caught in a Metal Heart, a music video for their album No Devolución which Kerrang mentioned as "this stunning, artistic video for this killer new song". Through London based production house Partizan Davy and Kristin got to direct a music video for BRIT Award nominated Guillemots. Guillemot's lead singer Fyfe Dangerfield has since composed an original score for their stage adaptation of Howl's Moving Castle. Their latest music video Wrong Choice follows singer Atakan Ilgazdag through film sets made out of paper.

Parting

French TV channel Canal+ commissioned 11 film makers to create a short film of 1:11 min length to commemorate 9/11.

Shooting the Messenger

Their first live art piece, entitled Shooting the Messenger, took them on a hitchhiking tour around Great Britain in which they explored Marshal McLuhan's theories on the global village.