Shadow monsters
July 28th, 2009 by ntimm
A beautiful interactive installation entitled Shadow Monsters that took place at the MOMA > Museum of Modern Art Midtown, Manhattan by Philip Worthington.
Monsters materializing from shadows cast on walls may sound like something from a child’s imagination, but Worthington has made the playful concept a reality. Shadow Monsters is based on custom-designed vision-recognition software. With the support of a computer, camera, projector, and light box, the software elaborates on viewers’ shadow gestures with sound and animation. Open and close your hands like a mouth, and a wolf with razor-sharp teeth will surface and growl; tongues, eyes, and fins appear; birds squawk and dinosaurs speak.
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