THE UNCANNY MIRROR
2018
slit-scan project
programmed in javascript
︎ instagram gallery
Exhibition views:
Prosthetic Pavillion Vol.2, Remont Gallery [November 2019]
Bye, Photography!, Artget Gallery [November 2018]
Catch 22/Kvaka 22 [July 2018]
The Uncanny Mirror is a generative interactive installation, based on a web camera, computer program and a projector/screen. The camera records the video in real-time, and the slit-scan program which I have written generates numeric values of the digital video footage. As the result, the projected material is showing the fragments of video frames aligned as a stream of pixel columns, similar to a scanning process, sliding over the screen, until the whole image has been created. After each full scan-pass across the width of the screen, the program is taking a screenshot, leaving a photo document approximately every half a minute of its activity, which are being posted to Uncanny Mirror Instagram, after being selected and curated.
Visitors are invited to participate and to create a site-specific image. This participative generative installation is giving an example of transformative possibilities of the digital image, exploring and showing the depth of the data behind the computer interface layer.
TEST THE PROJECT
2018
slit-scan project
programmed in javascript
︎ instagram gallery
Exhibition views:
Prosthetic Pavillion Vol.2, Remont Gallery [November 2019]
Bye, Photography!, Artget Gallery [November 2018]
Catch 22/Kvaka 22 [July 2018]
The Uncanny Mirror is a generative interactive installation, based on a web camera, computer program and a projector/screen. The camera records the video in real-time, and the slit-scan program which I have written generates numeric values of the digital video footage. As the result, the projected material is showing the fragments of video frames aligned as a stream of pixel columns, similar to a scanning process, sliding over the screen, until the whole image has been created. After each full scan-pass across the width of the screen, the program is taking a screenshot, leaving a photo document approximately every half a minute of its activity, which are being posted to Uncanny Mirror Instagram, after being selected and curated.
Visitors are invited to participate and to create a site-specific image. This participative generative installation is giving an example of transformative possibilities of the digital image, exploring and showing the depth of the data behind the computer interface layer.
TEST THE PROJECT
