Reactive by Daniel Shiffman
Description:
My work uses visual, responsive media to explore the idea of organization
and patterning at different scales, revealing unexpected relationships.
If a digital image is understood as highly-ordered pixels living on a grid, my work attempts to re-present the underlying data of that grid via organic, algorithmic processes, from the smooth motion of cumulus clouds and flocking birds to the frantic pace of microscopic bacteria.
In the past year, I have been creating interactive, digital
artworks which examine the shape and scale of the human body, and instrumentalize
the viewer's image in the production of the piece. Alone, each work is
empty;
viewed, each work jumps to life in a flurry of activity. It is my goal
to create digital instruments, or organs, which, in feeding off the unpredictable
shapes of human behavior, change the way we see our bodies and our (increasingly
digital) selves.
Technical Info:
"Reactive" is a windows application developed in C++, using
openGL to create and render the virtual environment, and quicktime to
capture and analyze the live video source.
Daniel Shiffman current works as a resident researcher at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School for the Arts. His screen-based interactive art installations have been shown in New York City at Kitchen, the Art Directors Club of NY, Art Nights at Europa Club, and Tisch School for the Arts. Dan also works as a freelance computer graphics programmer for various NYC artists and is a founder and producing director of Page Seventy-Three Productions (www.p73.org), a non-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing and developing the works of emerging playwrights. Originally from Baltimore, Daniel received his BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University.
For more information please visit Daniel Shiffman's web site or contact him by e-mail.