New Media Arts Layer Leader Simon Penny Opens Exhibit in Australia
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1.05.04 - Fugitive II, by Simon Penny, opens at the Australian Center for the Moving Image January 8, 2004, and will run til March 14. Fugitive II is one of a series of projects that utilize custom multi-camera machine vision to facilitate unencumbered embodied interaction. In Fugitive, the behavior of the system is determined not by the raw position of the user, but by the dynamics of their ongoing behavior.
Visually, the user explores a virtualized environment. The behavioral modalities of the system are communicated not by the image content, but by the dynamics of the camera movement within the shot and by the movement of the video image around the walls of the interaction space. Fugitive seeks to draw the attention of the users to their own embodied involvement in the loop of interaction between user and system.
Fugitive (1) was premiered at ZKM in 1997. Fugitive II was commissioned by ACMI in 2001 and has been developed by Simon Penny and Andre Bernhardt. The interaction environment is a 9-meter (30-foot) diameter circular room. Fugitive integrates a custom infra-red multi-camera, 3-D machine vision system with custom code driving both a video projector on a motion control rig, and a custom real-time digital video database system.
Further details about Fugitive are located at http://www.acmi.net.au/fugitive.jsp.