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Text Rain Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv, 1999 |
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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.
Quicktime Documentation (13 mb, 320x240)
Partial Exhibition List:
Time Warner Center, New York, NY. 2006 Itaú Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil. 2006 Austria at ARCO, Medialab Madrid, Conde Duque Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain. 2006 WRO International Media Art Biennale, The National Museum, Wroclaw, Poland. 2005 La Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT), Montréal, Canada. 2004 LiteraturWERKstatt, Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany. 2004 The Lighthouse, Brighton, United Kingdom. 2002 Taiwan Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan. 2001 Kiev International Media Art Festival, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine. 2001 Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong. 2001 WRO Biennale, WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland. 2001 Montevideo / Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2000 Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria. 2000 - 2002 Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. 2000 European Media Art Festival 2000, Osnabruck, Germany. 2000 NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan. 2000 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY. 2000 New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2000
Awards:
Collections:
Ken Freed, Boston, Masachusetts, USA. Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. |
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