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Artist:
Romy Achituv, born Rome, Italy 1958  Search this
Camille Utterback, born Bloomington, IN 1970  Search this
Medium:
interactive digital installation
Dimensions:
dimensions variable
Type:
Media Arts
Date:
1999
Exhibition Label:
Text Rain is a ground breaking interactive artwork that explores the correspondence between language and the body. The projection activates a living space of simultaneous reflection and activation as participants engage with animated type from the poem “Talk, You” by Evan Zimroth. Jumbling the language of visual representation with the dynamics of spectatorship and interactivity, Text Rain draws attention to the symbolic codes embedded in our machines, further compounding the spaces we inhabit both virtually and physically. Reading the text places viewers in unusual positions and creates figures of speech that locate the sensation of a work of art within one’s physical experience.
Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015
Topic:
Figure group  Search this
Object\letter  Search this
Credit Line:
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum
Copyright:
© 1999, Romy Achituv and Camille Utterback
Object number:
2015.14
Restrictions & Rights:
Usage conditions apply
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Department:
Time-Based Media Art
Data Source:
Smithsonian American Art Museum
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk755236e6d-26ff-46ae-b59a-90caae5d8d23
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:saam_2015.14