Interactive Futures - The Future Screen

Frontera v.1 Interactive installation by Lilia Pérez Romero (liliaperez.net) shown in Interactive Futures, Victoria, BC,Canada (2007)
Programmer of this version: Omar Sánchez
Models / Characters: Myriam Beutelspascher, La Poli, Don Jacobo and Juan Pablo Avendaño

Made as part of an artistic residency in the Center for Multimedia, Mexico
When a user approaches the work, the playback screen is the first thing she encounters. One of the four randomly chosen characters observes the spectator from a crystal screen. From its pose and the framing of the shot, it seems to be waiting to be portrayed.

The character will carry on like this until the spectator touches the screen. Then, they will come out of their immobility responding with the same gesture, placing their hand and gaze on the user's hand, following any route it follows.

Trapped in this small sequence of gestures that reminds of La Invención de Morel, by Adolofo Bioy Casares, the portrayed character meets the real one at an instant of simulated communion, which expresses both the will for communication and the impossibility of it actually happening.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• interactivity
• art
• technology
• new technology
• touch screen
• interactive portrait
• lilia pérez
• lilia pérez romero
• frontera
• haptic media
• canadá
• méxico