Information
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer >
»Body Movies, Relational Architecture 6«, 2001 - 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-CNxFiXZDY
Technology
Display
Year of Creation: 2001Technique: Four 7kW Xenon projectors with robotic rollers, 1,200 Duraclear transparencies, computerised tracking system, plasma screen and mirrors.
Dimensions: Variable dimensions
Keywords: database, interactive, outdoor, projection, shadows, sound, tracker.
Descriptions & Essays
"Body Movies" transforms public space with 400 to 1,800 square metres of interactive projections. Thousands of photo portraits taken on the streets of the cities where the project is exhibited are shown using robotically controlled projectors. However, the portraits only appear inside the projected shadows of local passers-by, whose silhouettes measure between 2 to 25 metres high, depending on how far people were from the powerful light sources placed on the floor of the square. A custom-made computer vision tracking system triggers new portraits as old ones are revealed.
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Video: Body Movies by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, presented in Hong Kong in November 2006. Thousands of photo portraits taken on the streets of the cities where the project is exhibited are shown using robotically controlled projectors. However, the portraits only appear inside the projected shadows of local passers-by, whose silhouettes measure between 2 to 25 metres high, depending on how far people were from the powerful light sources placed on the floor of the square. A custom-made computer vision tracking system triggers new portraits as old ones are revealed. Higher resolution version available at http://www.lozano-hemmer.com
Literature
Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael and Heimo Ranzenbacher. »Metaphors of Participation / Metaphern der Partizipation - Interview
with / mit Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.« In Ars Electronica 2001: TAKEOVER - Who´s Doing the Art of Tomorrow? / Wer macht die Kunst von morgen?, edited by Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag, 2001.
Exhibitions & Events