Tracking Behaviors

EYEBEAM Beta Launch: Artists in Residence '03
540 W. 21st Street between 10th & 11th Aves, NYC
Nov. 25, 7-8:30pm

Tracking Behaviors

Please join artists Adam Frank, Dan O’Sullivan and Marie Sester as they discuss projects in the Beta Launch '03 exhibition developed during their residencies. Tracking Behaviors will explore artists' projects based on human motion, from bodies moving through space to minute facial and eye movements, which also investigate the dynamics of human interaction over distance, time and individual perceptions.

Frank's Shadow, created with Zack Booth Simpson, is an interactive installation that projects a disembodied, autonomous, human shadow on the ground that attempts to interact and merge with the participant’s shadow. O'Sullivan'sTrading Glances is an installation that tracks the viewer’s eye as a database of portraits are displayed in front of them, demonstrating that ones’ eye movements can betray very private visual preferences. Participants’ faces are all added to the database of portraits and through the project web site (http://stage.itp.nyu.edu/~dano/TradingGlances/)one can see who glanced at them and replay exactly how another person's gaze travels across their face. ACCESS, by Sester, is a public art installation that applies web, computer, sound and lighting technologies in which web users track individuals in public spaces with a unique robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system. Documentation of ACCESS exhibitions will be shown.