Shadow Bag (2005) by Scott Snibbe

As a viewer walks within the beam of an interactive projection, Shadow Bag captures his shadow and re-projects it onto a screen with unpredictable variation. Sometimes there is no response: the projector acts merely as a light source casting the viewers true shadow; sometimes a disembodied copy of the viewers shadow comes immediately towards him from the other side; at other times, the shadow follows him, often without his knowledge. The responding shadow might be the viewers, and at other times someone who came before. Occasionally when a viewer touches one of these disembodied shadows, it collapses like a corpse. The title of the work refers to Carl Jungs use of shadow as a psychological term to describe our repressed and unconscious selves.

http://snibbe.com/projects/interactive/shadowbag

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• shadow
• psychology
• Jung
• surprise
• randomness
• death