3 Artists - 9/8/15

Well, instead of artists, I focused on artworks that stood out to me.
The first piece I want to focus on is Daniel Rozin's Mechanical Mirrors--a series of 15 mirrors which Rozin began constructing in 1999 and still continues adding to to this day. The mirrors are made from a wide range of materials (from fuzzy pom poms, to finely crafted fans, to wood) but focus on the same interaction: when a person stands in front of the mirror, their image is captured in the mirror (in the case of the fans, the fans will open and close to create a rough silhouette of the subject; the pom poms will rotate between black and white to create more detailed silhouette; the wooden squares will swap between different shades of wood to create a still more detailed image). The mirrors are attached to whirring motors, computers, and video cameras and create a soothing sound when approached.
rozin's stuff

[radical] signs of life by Heidi Boisvert is a generative performance piece in which 5 dancers create a new dance from a prescribed bank of motions. Each dancer is equipped with two sensors that monitor their blood and muscles; as they dance, the input gathered by the sensors generates music and images are projected onto screens between the dancers and audience.

[radical] indeed

the last piece I'd like to focus on is Imogen Heap's Me, the Machine. Imogen Heap is a singer-songwriter who--inspired by an engineer at MIT--developed a pair of musical gloves that, when the singer gesticulates, act as a set of instruments and an audio mixing program in real time. Each of her hand movements are connected to specific effects, her position on the stage will determine things like reverb and choral effects, and LEDs on the gloves indicate whether or not the singer is in record mode or not. This incredible use of physical computing has created an entire band that turns dance into an orchestra. The performance itself is incredible
here's a link to imogen explaining how her gloves work, demoing them, and then performing her song live