Project Number
- 171
Title
- ants under a mushroom
Description
- Interactive art installation addressing issues of reality and abstraction.
Contact
- Amy Alexander
Affiliation
- California Institute of the Arts
Address
- School of Film/Video
- 24700 McBean Parkway
- Valencia, California 91355
- 24700 McBean Parkway
- amy@emsh.calarts.edu
WWW
Year
- 1997
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "ants under a mushroom" is an interactive collage in which the participant "paints" with moving and still images, addressing issues of reality and abstraction by examining the relationship between the formal elements of a non-fiction image and its content.
- The artist notes "[in] perceiving an event, we alter that event to suit our own purposes... [in] making an image of an event, we apply this alteration of the real to the image-making process... [thus], in perceiving an image of a non-fictional event, we generate a perception that is twice removed from the actual event."
- This installation supports exploration of these issues.
Sight
- graphics computer, projection
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 5 - Established, Finished
Intent
- 3 - Application (expression, enabler)
Primary
- 307 - art / commentary
Secondary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
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