[The Memory Booth] Teaser

THE MEMORY BOOTH
an interactive body-memory installation

The core of the Memory Booth installation revolves around an archive of video registrations of traditional dance forms. The installation has an interactive input interface, the Booth, and an output exhibition in another, public, space. When a user enters the Memory booth, he/she is welcomed by a screen that invites him/her to imitate a series of movements. Each time a countdown commences and the user will have to perform the movement. At the end of the game the user is asked to perform the whole series of movements in one dance and this series is recorded by a camera. This last performance is not an imitation from an on-screen video, but from (embodied) memory. Each new dance is consequently saved in the computer database. All series are projected on the walls of a separate publicly accessible space in tandem with the original archival videos, forming a constantly expanding exhibition.

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Film & Animation

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