Interactive art "Maelstrom&Vortex": The body's speed - A race between digital and analog speeds
Journal
MM 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Multimedia
Pages
1495-1496
Date Issued
2012
Author(s)
Luo, H.-L.
Abstract
With an explosion of accessible information, the digital era has been integrated into our daily lives. At any time, people can operate handheld computers (cell phones) to connect to the online world. The thrill of speed is slowly replacing the analog speed of the human body. Even as the human body attempts to catch up with the speed of a computer, it tries to flee from it at the same time. This type of hope returns us to an original and natural sense of ambivalence, so that, in post-digital times, people will attempt to find the divine light of the analog era. The work, "Maelstrom&Vortex", utilizes interactive art to try to explain analog and digital speeds. Through the interaction, people can experience differences in speed between physical sensations and computer data as it re-combines them with a sense of space. In the work, the analog movement of mechanical motors, the digital capture of cameras, and digital computation of computers are combined, and then intervened with the analog-like human body. This allows participants to discover the relationship amongst analog, digital, and the body. © 2012 Authors.
Type
conference paper