INTERTEXTUALITY
TOWATA Masayuki + MATSUMOTO Yasuaki
Gravity and Grace
- Interactive Installation
- ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe / Karlsruhe
- 1995
- Reflection mirror,Black screen,Projector,Video camera,Computers,Speakers.
“The observer is confronted with the dark surface of a half mirrored glass on which blinking red LED lights and the observer's own image are reflected. Within a short time, blue shafts of light begin to radiate from around the observer’s image on the glass like an aura. With the help of a camera motion capture system, these beams follow the movement of the observer’s body, albeit with a slight lag. In this way, the reflection of the body is mixed with digital imagery. Observers may be enticed to collaborative play with their own enhanced reflections and aura that suggests an animate force or power. After a period of one to five minutes, chosen at random by a computer, a large blue computer graphic star hangs on the image of the participant above shoulder height, then ‘explodes’”
(Hardware Software Artware, 1997).