June 23, 2005
TIME TRANSLATIONS
Pedestrian's Dance
Time Translations--an interactive installation by Nell Breyer-- transforms the World Financial Center's southern pedestrian bridge from a temporary structure to an animated performance space through the projected movements of passers-by. Cameras capture the constant movements along the bridge in real time, which are then processed by computer, and projected into the space as beautiful, ephemeral drawings on the walls fo the bridge. The daily activity of walking to work is visualized as a kind of dance in which pedestrians become performers. [Schedule]
Nell Breyer is currently a Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Visual Studies. She was a fellow at the Artist Resource and Media Laboratory (ARM) at Dance Theater Workshop in 2003. From 2000-2002, Breyer conducted research on digital video technologies at The Media Laboratory for Arts & Sciences at MIT. She holds an M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Oxford University and an M.S. in Media Arts & Sciences from MIT.
Posted by jo at June 23, 2005 10:30 AM
