21c Museum Hotel == Art IV == Text Rain
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Uploaded by krobb66 on Apr 16, 2008
http://www.21chotel.com
Video of art on display at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, KY. William Morrow, Director.
Art shown includes the permanent installation 'Text Rain' by Camille Utterback & Romy Achituv, 1999., KY.
Text Rain is an interactive installation in which participants 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 letters. Like rain or snow, the letters appears to land on participants' heads and arms. The letters respond to the participants' motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again. The falling text will 'land' on anything darker than a certain threshold, and 'fall' whenever that obstacle is removed. If a participant accumulates enough letters along their outstretched arms, or along the silhouette of any dark object, they can sometimes catch an entire word, or even a phrase. The falling letters are not random, but form lines of a poem about bodies and language. 'Reading' the phrases in the Text Rain installation becomes a physical as well as a cerebral endeavor.
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Video produced by Keith Robbins (kwrobbins@insightbb.com)
Owners: Laura Lee Brown & Steve Wilson
Curator: William Morrow
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cool video editing. i saw text rain and it is very cool but it is hard to photograph or video to show someone else. nice job.
octoberchild 3 years ago