Alex Haw, Mauritius Seeger: Lumiskin: Luminous Responsive Enclosures

Title:

Lumiskin: Luminous Responsive Enclosures

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Alex Haw
• Mauritius Seeger

Symposium:

• ISEA2009: 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Venue(s):

• Waterfront Hall , Belfast , Ireland

Medium:

Projection, computer, sound

Artist Statement:

lumiskin uses projections to create an amorphous, reactive architecture, delicately enshrouding visitors, responding to their every move, dancing with them as they move through its ether. It spatialises surveillance tracking technologies in an exploration of ‘ambiveilance’ – the twin sides of surveillance that both empower and entrap its subjects. It both ensnares and aggrandises its visitors, who drift into a light mist and accrue luminous spatial fragments – a generative architecture constantly reforming its space around the occupants.

lumiskin combines camera-vision, computation and tracking systems with projectors to explore the way people behave when tracked, and to visualise the kind of spaces their behaviour creates. In contrast to much interactive work, it creates spaces rather than drawings, and enables a complex web of inter-personal relations. Cameras co-located adjacent to projectors scan the scene and detect movement.

Custom software inscribes an enclosure around the moving body, feeding it to the projector, whose luminous emissions of points and lines stretch into vectors and surfaces as they move through the light fog, conjuring an ever-shifting series of territories around the visitors.

Category:

• Art Exhibition
• Projection / Video Mapping
• Sound Art