15 January 2007

Interactive videowall


Dis-connected Macha guided the way to this interesting topic on textRain:
Text Rain is an interactive installation in which participants use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical—to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist. In the Text Rain installation participants stand or move in front of a large projection screen. On the screen they see a mirrored video projection of themselves in black and white, combined with a color animation of falling letters. Like rain or snow, the letters appears to land on participants' heads and arms. The letters respond to the participants' motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again. The falling text will 'land' on anything darker than a certain threshold, and 'fall' whenever that obstacle is removed. If a participant accumulates enough letters along their outstretched arms, or along the silhouette of any dark object, they can sometimes catch an entire word, or even a phrase. The falling letters are not random, but form lines of a poem about bodies and language. 'Reading' the phrases in the Text Rain installation becomes a physical as well as a cerebral endeavor.
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4 comments:

  1. concerning interactive walls, have a look at Camille Utterback's projects as:
    http://www.camilleutterback.com/untitled5.html
    http://www.camilleutterback.com/textrain.html
    http://www.camilleutterback.com/luminousflux.html

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  2. Very interesting!
    I'm researching ways of capturing movement for my morning rituals project, so if you don't mind I put the same links on my blog.
    thx

    nathalik

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  3. Why would i mind... It's there for the takin'

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