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Rain (created by Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv) is a playful
interactive installation that blurs the boundary between the familiar
and the magical. Participants use the familiar instrument of their
bodies, to do what seems magical - to lift and play with falling letters.
Participants view a mirrored projection of themselves in black and
white, combined with falling, colored text. Like rain or snow, the
text lands on participants' heads and arms. The text responds to the
participants' motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall
again.
If a participant accumulates enough letters along their outstretched arms, or along the silhouette of any dark object, they can sometimes catch an entire word, or even a phrase. The falling letters are not random, but lines of a poem about bodies and language. As letters from one line of the poem fall towards the ground they begin to fade, and differently colored letters from the next line replace them from above. Reading the poem in the Text Rain installation, if participants can do so at all, becomes a physical rather than cerebral endeavor.
Exhibition History:
Space and Spatiality Master Class, Kolding Design School, Kolding, Denmark. 2001 Kiev International Media Art Festival, Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine. 2001 Microwave International Media Art Festival, Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong. 2001 The Boston CyberArts Festival, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA. 2001 WRO Biennale, WRO Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland. 2001 Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. 2001 Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria. 2000 - 2001 Montevideo / Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2000 Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. 2000 SIGGRAPH 2000 Art Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2000 European Media Art Festival 2000, Osnabruck, Germany. 2000 NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan. 2000 Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY. 2000 New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2000 New York University, New York, NY. 1999 as customized commissions:
(for Shiseido Cosmetics) Dia Arts Annex, New York, NY. 2001 The Jungugalen Kaigakan-mae,Tokyo, Japan. 2001 Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France. 2001 (for Herman Miller) Herman Miller Showroom, Chicago, IL. 2001
Collections:
Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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