Jorge Mora Fernandez

“Shadows around the world” integrates the traditional Chinese puppetry with visual performance arts within an interactive experience. This artwork embrace new media with classic media creating an funny interactive tactile context to learn how to perform puppets while experimenting a classic love story. In terms of technologies it uses Web Cam, Max/Msp, A Monitor, a G5, Classic Chinese Puppets & Paper Decorations, one set of Headphones and a Projector .

The Experience: The user face a close white cabinet, which is illuminated from the back with a couple of lamps, and a big screen where a black and white video with images of landscapes around the world is showed, LA, Tijuana, Cusco & Machu Pichu. Suddenly, once the user opens the cabinet he discovers colorful inside of different traditional and mythical animals from the Chinese Culture, on the back over a transparent screen a Male Chinese Shadow appears, on the front a mysterious envelop says “Open Me!”. On the big screen the Chinese Shadow appears in front of the Big Screen integrated with the landscapes video. The shadows is grabbed through the decorated Web Cam inside the cabinet that catch the image once it opens. Within the envelope a Female Chinese Shadow thanks for free her soul mate and invite the user to go to the back of the cabinet and to manage the male shadows until he meets her in one of the fare way landscapes.

Screen & Jurors Overview Perspective

Physical Interactions while Performing the Puppet and the Monitored Mixed Media Feedback.

Front's View with the author where the male puppet should be sad thinking about meeting her female puppet.