Alvaro Cassinelli’s Boxed Ego is an installation where the user looks into a what appears to be a peephole camera, only to be presented with a live image of themselves operating the camera. This work is an interesting mirror installation where the users get absorbed in their own mirror reflection, from an unfamiliar angle.
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.
