When you enter a new room you are
under a whole new experience with your
eyes open you are absorbing everything
around you.
My idea is inspired from piece of work by
a Japanese artist called
“Takashi Murakami”
His piece explores how you observe a
room when you first enter and flips the
experience back onto you as you’re the one
being looked at, rather than you looking at the room. The work is in a unique style which would be very different from my own.
My idea is to create and interactive installation which explore how an image blurs, and your
relationship to this blurred image. The idea came from my experiences of lomography and how images are not always perfect.
The idea was to have a large projection with an image being projected onto the wall. Could even be from a webcam sat looking at the people viewing the screen. Based on how far the person is away from the projected image would be how blurred the image displays. The closer the person gets the sharper the images gets but because they get so close the image then fragments into pixels and the image is never seen as it was intended.
It changes the expectations on the viewer of what a perfect image it. Some might find the blurred image beautiful and would be happy to watch as it changes via the webcam feeding it data. Others would want to control the image once they find out they can control the sharpness. Frustration would set in as they discover they are not totally in-control, or they will never see the image. Others might decide that the installation is “broken” and not working as it should.
I think an installation of this nature needs to be researched properly to see if anything has been done like this before. Experiments would need to be made about how to go about censoring the viewer, and problems which arise. One problem instantly visible is that if there is more than one viewer which should it track do set the blur, only research could solve this problem. Technologies would also need to be explored; phidgets is one possibility which can be used with a number of programs such as PHP or most likely MAX.
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