-Aesthetic Deconstruction of a Manufactured Reality-
a hybrid interactive installation by Kim Dylla

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“Aesthetic Deconstruction of a Manufactured Reality” 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 networks of small blue nodes 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. The flat imagery in the paintings as well as their pixel-like proportions contrasted to the luminous canvas of the projection screen furthers this dialogue. Fusing human and digital elements, her work becomes a hybrid cyborg of computer and artist.