Make Out

Shadow Box 8

"Make Out" (Shadow Box 8) is the eighth piece in the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows thousands of internet videos of couples looking at each other: as soon as someone stands in front of the display his or her silhouette is shown and all the couples within it begin to kiss. The massive array of make-out sessions continues for as long as someone is in front of the work, --as he or she moves away all the kissing ends.

The collector can choose what proportion of the videos are man-woman, woman-woman or man-man. The default state is the statistically faithful proportion of the videos that are online: 50 per cent woman-woman, 30 per cent man-man and 20 per cent man-woman.Periodically, the display shows all videos in the database simultaneously. The piece exists also as a large projection or as an installation with plasma screens. In these, the detected presence of passers-by triggers a wave of kissing in huge arrays of up to 8,000 simultaneous video clips.

General info

Spanish name:
Sabroseos
Year of creation:
2008

Shadow Box

Technique:
High resolution interactive display with built-in computerized surveillance system
Dimensions:
104.5 x 80 x 12 cm
Keywords:
database, indoor, outdoor, tracker, projection, interactive
Edition:
6 Editions, 1 AP
Collectors:
Borusan Contemporary and private collectors

Flatscreen

Keywords:
database, indoor, outdoor, tracker, projection, interactive
Edition:
3 Editions, 1 AP
Collectors:
Amore Pacific Museum of Art and private collectors

Treatment

Technique:
Projection, computer, computerized surveillance system with camera
Room conditions:
Indoor or Outdoor
Dimensions:
Variable
Keywords:
database, indoor, outdoor, tracker, projection, interactive
Edition:
1 Edition, 1 AP

Exhibitions


Credits

  • Programming: Conroy Badger
  • Production Assistance: Stephan Schulz, David Lemieux, Natalie Bouchard, Olfa Driss, Nicolas Martel, Jonathan Yu

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