-CYBORG-
a hybrid interactive installation by Kim Dylla

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“Cyborg” is an installation that combines traditional oil painting with cutting-edge interactive software. The center panel is a projection that both reacts to and incorporates the viewer into the imagery using computer vision technology. A java applet, written by the artist in Processing, detects viewer’s movements through live video feed from a webcam, and then creates and shifts nebulas of the green lights in reaction to them.This allows the installation to take an active role in the artist /viewer reaction cycle.
This project is part of a series in which the artist is dealing with the alien visual identity of technology and the manufactured. She is embracing the role of technology and software as art process, by presenting code as process as juxtaposed to the traditional process of painting. By including both human and electronic technique, her work becomes a hybrid cyborg of computer and artist.