Project Number
- 64
Title
- Surface Tension
Description
- Interactive art installation for exploring the boundaries of reality and virtuality.
Contact
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Susana Ramsay, Will Bauer
Affiliation
- Transition State Theory
Address
- Modesto Lafuente 28, 3#188#A
- Madrid 28003
- Spain
- 3408.702005
- +34.1.442.1717
- +34.1.399.0446 fax
- Madrid 28003
WWW
Year
- 1993
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 93 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "'Surface Tension' is an active and responsive installation designed to investigate the boundary between the virtual and the real."
- Using proprietary ultrasonic wand input devices, the installation responds to motion and detected inputs with music, video, and oratory. A prepared performance piece (with dancers) and audience participation segments are featured.
- "The thematic focus is not on representing reality or virtuality, but on the effects of 'crossing' from one to the other. Is there a boundary between the Virtual and the Real? If so, what is its resistance to transgression?"
Sight
- Macintosh IIci, custom MIDI slide transparency controller, Electrohome ECP 3000 projector
Sound
- Akai S1000 sampler, 12-channel mixer, amplifiers
Touch
- GAMS, Gesture, and Media System, ultrasound pulse generator, GAMS wand
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- "'Surface Tension' is about a fully-militarized family searching to communicate with each other in the time when everything has been said, done and recorded."
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