ART 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Camille Utterback, Shadow Play, Octavio Paz
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Ex: seeing yourself on a video camera: we become transformed into these new representations of ourselves, now we embrace ourselves being on the camera. It translates them into an improvised music directly related to the qualities of the movements themselves in real-ti(cid:373)e(cid:863: david rokeby, transforming mirrors. Interactive artworks, according to rokeby, are like mirrors, reflecting the viewer back through the transformational lens of the artwork: viewer becomes a part of the artwork and sees themselves mirrored in the artwork. Reflects back what the viewer puts into it and transforms the interactions into some kind of event where the audience is learning something through the process (cid:862)t(cid:396)a(cid:374)sformed reflections are a dialogue between the self and the world beyond The immediate precedent for this is found in john cage"s chance compositions. The primary difference is that the chance element is replaced by a complex, indeterminate yet sentient element, the spectator.
