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an interactive installation by Akke Wagenaar, Masahiro Miwa, Michael Hoch and Matthias Melcher. The idea for this installation was born in the year 1995, 50 years after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The installation deals with this theme in a very abstract way: world history is brought back to the level of the individual fate by letting the viewer interact with a virtual human form on the screen. The viewer stands in front of a large back projection screen showing an image of a virtual human form. When the viewer starts to move, he-she causes the virtual form to unfold itself slowly into a position which is mirroring the position of the viewer. The virtual form continuously collapses into a state of terrible physical destortion if the viewer stops moving. In this way a connection is established between the real body (Rbody) of the viewer and the virtual body (Vbody) of the virtual form, i.e. a thin life line seems to form between the viewer and the virtual form, a life line however which is fragile and can cease to exist at any moment. The interface human-machine consists of an infrared camera which monitors anybody in front of the projection screen. The camera signal with the viewer's movements is analysed by a gesture analysis program. This work and the Hiroshima Project are parallel works and belong together. see the project page for more details> |
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