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Magic Mirrors is a video installation requiring audience
participation to create
large projections of human forms bending, twisting, and flying through space. This celibratory work could be described as a ìvideo fun house,î where visitors view large projections of their own images transformed in extraordinary ways using real-time digital video processing techniques. |
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Everyone, especially children, are fascinated
by watching their own video image.
This work is ideally designed for a crowd of people coming and going since it engages a large audience in two ways. Audience members who participate in creating the projection move and interact together socially to produce a composite image. The large screen insures that audience members who do not participate directly can enjoy the spectacle of watching those who do participate, even from a great distance or in passing. |
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Software for this project uses a programming language
called Max, with additional
video processing extensions using the software package, NATO. A standard video camera is used to send images to the video input of an Apple G4 computer. There, software transforms the image in real time using custom-designed video processing algorithms. The altered image is then projected onto a large 12 x 18 foot screen. |