George Legrady - Tracing



Interactive Shockwave Installation




front room        back room




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TRACING, A Two Screen Interactive Installation, 1998
Motion sensor detectors, Redfinger sensor system, 2 computers, 2 projectors, 4 track sound system
The installation consists of a wall/screen separating a museum space in half. Image/texts and sounds are continuously projected on both sides of the wall/screen. The contents are interactively determined by the audience's movement and position within the front section of the room. The audience's positions control speed, focus, selection of sounds and topics (text descriptions of everyday stituations, systems, issues of technology keywords collected in CA and Germany between 1994-1997). On the back screen, a projected blurred letter is explored with the mouse or "retraced" to extrude in-focus words and video segments describing a different sense of space (Video footage was collected in Eastern and Central in the early 1990's). The back room's contents are also determined by the audience activities and locations in the front room through infra-red communication between the two computers.

© George Legrady 1998