Untitled 5 is the fifth interactive installation in the External Measures Series, which Utterback has been developing since 2001. The goal of these works is to create an aesthetic system which responds fluidly and intriguingly to physical movement in the … Continue reading
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Potent Objects playfully examines the way we ascribe emotion to inanimate technologies. Potent Objects parallels current research in ‘affective computing,’ in which the capability of sensing and conveying emotion is built into computing devices. The work suggests that, though our … Continue reading
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External Measures, 2003 is the third piece in a series of interactive installations which hinge the parameters of dynamic compositions to human motion in the gallery space. This piece creates a hypnotic tension between presence and absence, mark making and … Continue reading
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Transforming Ideas is an interactive installation, commissioned by Experience Design (formerly Krent/Paffett/Carney) for the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston, Massachusetts. The installation allows people to interact with quotations by using their bodies to reveal hidden words in the quote … Continue reading
linescape.cpp is a piece of software created for the CODeDOC project on the Whitney Museum’s Artport site. Twelve artists were commissioned by Christiane Paul to code a specific assignment—to ‘connect and move three points in space’. The main code was … Continue reading
The Liquid Time Series explores how the concept of ‘point of view’ is predicated on embodied existence. Initially, the piece was an attempt to create an interactive installation where users’ physical positions in the gallery (tracked by an overhead camera) … Continue reading
The Luminous Flux installation represents moving vertical edges in an incoming video signal in one color, and moving horizontal edges in another. As participants interact with the piece in real time, the visual accumulation of their motions is output to … Continue reading
Arc Tangent is an interactive installation that activates the physical space between people by creating visual consequences to their bodies’ locations. As people approach a circular floor projection, dynamic real-time drawings are created based on people’s positions and movements around … Continue reading
The Drawing from Life installation was developed as a commission for the ‘Genomic Revolution’ show at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The exhibit opened in May 2001 and ran through January 1, 2002. In this piece … Continue reading
Come To Pieces is an interactive video installation in which a fragmented video portrait of gallery visitors is generated in real time from four different live camera feeds. Imagine seeing yourself from four different angles at once. Four views are … Continue reading
see/saw is an interactive installation in which visitors’ manipulations of a real see-saw control the fluctuation of power and emotion in the story of an intimate relationship. A pair of words are projected on the walls behind the people on … Continue reading
This interactive installation explores the possibilities of an projected kinetic sculpture that responds to people’s positions and movements using video tracking. The kinetic sculpture is a projected image, but the positions, velocity, and existence of various parts of the sculpture … Continue reading
In the Crossing installation participants encounter a still video projection of abstract black lines on a blue background. Moving into an area tracked by an overhead camera causes the image fragment and ripple in front of one’s body. As participants … Continue reading
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Written Forms maps three separate texts, one each, into the dark, medium and light areas of a live video. When viewed from a distance this collage of words melts into the recognizable image of people in the installation space. By … Continue reading
In the Visual Resolve installation, live video of participants is recreated out of a series of small icons or images loaded into the installation. Participants encounter a live but abstracted version of themselves on a projection screen. The reconstructed imagery … Continue reading
The Composition installation turns live video of participants in an installation space into imagery completely composed of text. Participants in the installation interact with a live projected version of themselves where a real-time video image of themselves is literally ‘composed’ … Continue reading
