As I was reading this article and researching the aforementioned interactive media art forms, I came across Myron Kreuger’s “Videoplace.” The way the technology mimicked movements and transferred them on to a different surface made me think of one of my favorite interactive media pieces, the wooden mirrors. The wooden mirrors is a piece created by Daniel Rozin and takes basic movements and is able to replicate them with over 835 tiny pieces of wood. The thought and time to put this piece together is what is truly breathtaking about this piece and to see yourself in a way you may have never imagined.

This type of interactive art speaks to me because there is no previous knowledge required to understand how to interact with it. A pedestrian could simply be walking by and it would create an image of you whether you noticed it or not. The idea of creating an electronic shadow like this is truly something amazing and I hope to one day see it in person. Such simple external components in two-sided wood planks make it that much more awe-inspiring when it is able to capture your image and movements on the canvas.

Peter Rattin