Tag Archives: phenomenal image

Bruce Nauman’s Live-Tape Video Corridor

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Bruce Nauman’s Live-Taped Video Corridor is a installation consisting of two montitors at the end of a corridor each featuring a video feed. The upper video feed captures the user from behind and diminishes as he or she walks towards the monitors, the bottom monitors show pre-taped footage of the same corridor, only empty.
The installation is eerie in several ways: In attempt to see herself on the top monitor, the user only ever sees herself from behind walking away from the camera eye. Oppositional movement as walking towards becomes walking away. And attempting to see the image motive clearer, makes it shrink. The bottom monitor which appear as an image, has edited out the user altogether.

Brigitta Zics’ Mirror_SPACE

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In Brigitta Zics’ Mirror_SPACE installation the users’ face is scanned in real time by infrared sensor device, and calculate mood values. This data is transformed into a virtual mirror image presented on screen. Zics also argues that “Mirror_SPACE is a system of reflections of a type which involves not only optical appearances but also forces which act on us andwhich we cannot control affecting our phenomenal image” (Zics 2005)
I find it interesting how the user is confronted with a real-time virtual interpretation of himself/herself. And also that the virtual object avatar is semi-autonomous of the user, meaning it will partly be controlled by the users movements as well as the proximity to other virtual objects.