The Treachery of Sanctuary- Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2kZdl8hs_s

This video is of an exhibit in Creators Project San Fransisco. This work of art uses kinect motion sensors to match viewers movement. It makes art interactive (although all art is interactive in its own way) and puts the audience in control similar to a videogame. Also, similar to videogames, the viewer can only control the movement of his or her shadow and not what happens around it. There is still a limited boundary of movement which is easily visualized in this piece. The interesting part of this peice is that in the first “painting” the birds attack your shadow. And in the last painting, you, the viewer, are a bird with wings. By doing this it presents the work from different prespectives. Also, the viewer is placed into the body of the creature that attacked them in the first painting.