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November 07, 2004

Sensing Space

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sponge at V2 DEAF Rotterdam, 9-20 November 2004


Membrane is a set of large translucent screens suspended throughout DEAF04's Van Nelle exhibition hall.  Approaching a Membrane, passersby see people on the opposite side re-projected onto the translucent material.  A sweep of the hand reshapes, swirls, thickens and thins what one sees through the membrane via dynamics of water, smoke, shockwaves or particles.  The system's visual and acoustic responses evolve according to the activity of the visitors with the passage of time.  The interplay between the Membrane's calligraphic media and the visitors' moving bodies generates vortices that entangle the Van Nelle factory site's present visitors and past ghosts.

Posted by michelle at November 7, 2004 07:06 PM

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