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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:
Taiwan Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan. 2001
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:
Blattner Brunner, Pittsburgh,PA. 2001-2002
(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:
Ken Freed, Boston, Masachusetts, USA.
Steve Wilson and Laura Lee Brown, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
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