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TextRain
Text Rain is a playful interactive installation that blurs the boundary between the familiar and the magical. Participants in the Text Rain installation use the familiar instrument of their bodies, to do what seems magical – to lift and play with falling letters that do not really exist.
In the Text Rain installation, participants stand or move in front of a large projection screen. On the screen they see a mirrored video projection of themselves in black and white, combined with a color animation of falling text. Like rain or snow, the text appears to land on participants´ heads and arms. The text responds to the participants´ motions and can be caught, lifted, and then dropped again. The falling text in the piece is lines from a poem about bodies, language, and conversation. In order to read the falling text people must learn to use their bodies as well as their minds. “Reading” the poem in the Text Rain installation, if participants can do so at all, becomes a physical rather than cerebral endeavor. Text Rain links the behavior of abstract virtual symbols to the physical movements of human bodies.
Signature: Camille Utterback, Romy Achituv/USA; poem excepts from: „talk, You” by Evan Zimroth from the book “Dead, Dinner or Naked”, Triquarterly Books, 1993
Source: Ars Electronica Center
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