Interactive Video Installation. A video projected at the end of a corridor is controlled by the distance between viewer and projection. Distance, time and space are main aspects in this installation where the viewer, disconnected from any other light and sound sources, is just given the time to think.
More details on how the installation works:
At the end of a 10 meters long and 1 meter wide corridor is projected a male figure. When a visitor comes in the corridor, wearing the headphones with IR LEDs attached on it, the visitor is tracked by a wii controller. If the visitor comes closer to the screen the projected figure will start getting undressed. If the viewer continues coming closer (passing a predefined spot close to the projection) then the man will continue undressing until he stands naked looking at the visitor. So the viewer comes in the position of being close to someone staring at him, naked, having nothing to hide. The man will stand there naked as long as the visitor stays there. When the visitor turns back the projection will turn on reverse mode, in normal speed and the man will appear dressing up again in an almost magic way.
In case the visitor coming in the corridor hesitates, stops or turns back before going close enough the undressing figure will stop undressing and turn on reverse mode just as described above, showing, in a way, to the visitor that he has to go closer.
The point of this installation is not other than getting the visitor closer to the projection so that disconnected from everything else, every other light or sound source he/she is going to enter in some kind of process of thinking.
For more information about the project you can also visit the process documentation page. It is a little confusing because it mainly consists of notes we’ve kept throughout the process but you can also find usefull links.
