Shadows
An interactive digital video projection installation
1 interactive video projection, black and white, silent 10 x 12 x 6 metres
A Little Pig Production, Groningen, Holland 1993.
Exhibited at the Living Room, Whitechapel, London 1994.
Exhibited at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Poland 1995.
The work uses remote visual sensing techniques to track the viewer. The position of the viewer in front of the image controls the activity of the figures across the bottom of the screens. The figures are all independently interactive, and are programmed with conflicting needs. From two very simple rules - that they wish to stay where they are, but also fear the approach of viewers and will run away when approached - a complex behaviour emerges. The gender and identity of the figures are also fluid, as when interacted with they also morph into other characters.