Present and Future Selves

Digital Quilt [silent], by Daniel Peltz, explores possibilities of intimacy within a large group. This installation is made of 414 digitally composed, abstract “self-portraits” projected onto a floor dusted with white chalk. A small camera functions as a sensor, tracking changes in the projected image. When someone steps on the quilt, s/he becomes a part of the image; the camera detects this “change” in the image and sends the information to the program. This data triggers the program to begin a transition from one layer of the quilt to the next.

The portraits are those of students who were asked to create two “self-portraits”: one representing how they saw themselves in the present and the other how they saw themselves evolving in the future. Videos of the installation.

Digital Quilt is part of the Intimachine exhibition which presents artworks exploring intimacy, behavior and expectations through machine-mediated interactive experiences (among the work is Haptic Opposition that Max enjoyed so much at Transmediale). At Art Interactive, Cambridge, Mass. from Nov 20, 2004 through Jan 30, 2005.

Originally blogged by Regine at near near future.