This is a wonderfully innovative device that allows the viewer of the program to interact with the visual sense of movement. Designed to make programs on television a lot more interactive than anytime in the past, this two way device allows viewers to participate actively in the content that they view. The technology crafted by Russian media artist Sergey Kotsun invites the viewer to become the author and main character of an interactive audio-visual performance.
The viewer’s image is captured via a webcam and thrown up onto a projection screen. On the screen, two lines of transparent square boxes are also displayed, with the lines approaching each other at the top and veering away at the bottom, almost forming two sides of a triangle. Inside the boxes are different geometrical shapes. As the viewer waves or makes other motions that can be picked up by the webcam, a computer program analyzes those movements. Basically your movement creates art and form on the screen.
If you have ever worked in an opera or wanted to create something unusual, then this is the perfect way to create magic with your hands. The video that demonstrates this interface is all the more interesting and strange. The viewer, in effect, becomes the artist as well as an integral part of the performance, creating movements that translate into sounds and abstract compositions of circles, squares, lines and half-moons. I wonder if guys like Picasso would have loved this. I think he would have probably taken it to the next level!
