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Simon Penny:
Fugitive II
January 8, 2004 - March 14, 2004
Australian Center for the Moving Image
Art Computation and Engineering graduate program
penny@uci.edu
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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.
For more information:
http://www.acmi.net.au/fugitive.jsp
Biography
Simon Penny is Professor of Arts and Engineering, a joint
appointment of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and The Henry
Samueli School of Engineering. He is director of the Art Computation
and Engineering graduate program. He is layer leader for the arts
for the UC Irvine division of Cal-(IT)2, heading up a research lab
focusing on embodiment, performance and telematics. Penny is an
Australian artist, theorist and teacher in the field of interactive
media art. His art practice consists of interactive and robotic
installations, which have been exhibited in the US, Australia and
Europe. He has spoken world-wide on electronic media art and his
essays have been published in seven languages.
http://www.ace.uci.edu/penny/
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