Watch Yourself, interactive computer installation.
1991
Included in “Tomorrow’s Realities” exhibit at SIGGRAPH ’91 in Las Vegas (July 29 – August 2, 1991) and Ars Electronica ’92 “The World from Within.”
PROGRAMMING
Timothy Binkley, Ph.D.
John F. Simon, Jr.
Trevor G. Thomson
DIGITAL IMAGING
Claire Boger
Chrissy Conant
Watch Yourself applies a simple technology of virtual reality. You walk through masterpieces of the universal painting in the installation. When you get closer to the screen, there you see your image. A small icon, taken from one the the available pictures, starts to fall. When your image meets the icon, it is captured by the computer and transferred to the picture where the icon came from. Eventually, a simple movement creates a “post-card” with your image in the masterpiece.
Exhibitions
The National Conference on Computing and Values, New Haven (August 12–16, 1991).
Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria (1992).
Videobrasil International Videofestival in São Paulo (September 21–27, 1992).
Digital Jambalaya in New York City (November 16 – December 1, 1992) in conjunction with the international TRIP ’92 event.
Demonstration tape included on Computer Graphics Access ’89-’92 videodisks (Bunkensha: Tokyo, 1992); Electronic Dictionary videodisks (G.R.A.M.: Montréal, 1993).
Images du Futur in Montréal (May 13 – September 19, 1993).
Vidéoformes in France (April 6–23, 1994).
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City (June 2, 1994).
Included in “Art for the End of the Century: Art and Technology” at the Reading Public Museum (July 23, 1995 – January 1, 1996).
ciberfestival 96 in Lisbon, Portugal (February 9 – March 17, 1996).
Permanent installation at Tempozan Contemporary Museum in Osaka, Japan (opened in September 1996).
Press
Le Monde. Qui a Peur de l’homme invisible? Paris. Le 7 avril, 1994.
South China Morning Post. Weird Work from Master of Maths and Morphs. Hong Kong. July 12, 1994.
Collections
Computer Graphics Access ’89-’92. videodisks (Bunkensha: Tokyo, 1992)
Electronic Dictionary videodisks. (G.R.A.M: Montreal, 1993)
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