Delicate Boundaries, 2007
This interactive installation imagines that the worlds inside our digital devices can move into the physical world. Small bugs made of light crawl out of a computer screen onto the human bodies that make contact with them, often surprising their audience as they try to abandon a virtual existence. The magic of the illusion takes shape as the audience lets them explore their bodies, crawling from one person to the next in a strangely intimate way.
As digital technologies have become embedded in everyday life, the line between the virtual and real is increasingly blurred. Delicate Boundaries playfully explores our expectations and understanding of interfaces and interactivity.
Awarded first prize by Share Festival and a special mention from the Vida Art and Artificial Life awards.
Created with the support of Medialab-Prado, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center, and Hangar.
Credits: Zachary Lieberman, Damian Stewart, Blanca Rego, Jordi Puig, Gonzalo Posada
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CineKid Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2010
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Exhibit Festival, Venice, Italy, 2009
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Um Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 2008
Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, 2008
Share Festival 2008, Torino, Italy, 2008
Vida Awards at Arco ’08, Madrid, Spain, 2008
Pixel Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2007
a-m-b-e-r 07, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007
elife, Madrid, Spain, 2007
Nit CASM Hangar Obert, Barcelona, 2007
Inside / Outside, Jersey City, NJ, 2007
FILE Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2007
SonarMática, Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain 2007
Interactivos?, MediaLabMadrid, Madrid,Spain 2007
everyone at MediaLab Madrid!
interactivos? crew
Eyebeam
Bao-Khang Luu
Zach Lieberman
Sonar Festival
Yan-Yan Cao
everyone at FILE
Doris and everyone at _gaia
Pedro, Merche, Lluis y todos en Hangar
Pedro Maisterra
Ekmel, Ozlem, Kemal, Gülay, Gunes and the amazing crew at a-m-b-e-r
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Mile grazie to the Share Festival jury, Luca, Chiara, Simona, Marie, Alex, Max and the wonderful team at Share festival!
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Teresa, Margarita, Ana, Guilherme, Antonio and the NIP crew
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