Cheap Imitation David Rokeby

"Cheap Imitation" is an homage to Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase


This interactive artwork is a faceted image projected approximately life size on a wall of the gallery. Each facet is interactive, emerging from darkness only when there is movement in front of that facet's exact location in the painting. If there is no movement, the projection is all black. Small gestures like hand movements will draw one or two fragments into visibility. Full body movement across the whole painting reveals the entire work. This is an impressive piece, the original work re-interpreted with new media to produce something that is close to the original aesthetically, while expanding on the theme of movement and form.




Screenvader is a stunning web art site, with lots of cool randomly generated graphics, and a smart looking interface. A nice use of flash.
The graphics are really impressive and each stands really well on their own, - with a new image generated with the click of the mouse, i can't help feel something is lost when the image is replaced with a new one.
(cheers to Andreas for showing me this site)

Sound Fountain is an installation which captures and replays sounds in the space in which it is placed.
Sounds are captured using a microphone and introduced into the system as a graphic bubble. The size of the bubble is determined by its length and its volume. Each bubble exists as a unique element, interacting with the other bubbles in the system flowing and over-flowing from one container to the next. As the bubbles become older they lose their colour, colour which was determined by the time they were captured. When they fall from the last container they are gone forever.

There's a video of the installation in use (check the above link) It's amazing to see the people interact with it, barking and yelping like wild dogs, it's very funny.

-Jaron Lanier - "..we will communicate through gestures, body movements, and grimaces, like our primitive ancestors..."