Project Number
- 31
Title
- Watch Yourself
Description
- Hypermedia installation for visualizing and interacting with historical art.
Contact
- Timothy Binkley
Affiliation
- School of Visual Arts
Address
- Institute for Computers in the Arts
- School of Visual Arts
- 209 East 23rd Street
- New York, New York 10010
- +1.212.645.0852
- +1.212.725.3587 fax
- School of Visual Arts
WWW
Year
- 1991
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 91 Tomorrow's Realities Program
Project Details
- "Watch Yourself" is a hypermedia interactive piece in which participants interact and insert themselves in well-known images from the history of art.
- Using a PC with Targa framebuffer, video camera, and dye sublimation printer, the viewer "is thrust into a jungle of visual information and placed on par with the images themselves. There are no cursors or buttons to help position the user in the database ... the viewer's own image serves as the selector for making choices."
- Choices are explicitly delineated in this media as they are in standard hypermedia documents. They are discovered through spontaneous exploration.
Sight
- 486 PC with Targa+64 frame buffer, video camera, Kodak dye sublimation printer, Sony Video Projector
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 2 - Prototype, Components, Testing
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 101 - hypermedia, hypertext
Remarks
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