Wednesday, 5 May 2010

SM2261-installation idea, Wooden Mirror by Rozen

The concept is simple but clever: a web camera gathers light and shape data, computer processes is controling hundreds of tiny electric motors to shift the wood blocks into the image in front of the device. The result is a pixel image, subtle gradations of shade are achieved by both the natural grain of the wood and the angle at which they are displayed, casting shadow if necessary.



This project is simple but deeply moving concept: the idea of everything around us acting as a mirror, or perhaps more precisely - making everything around us into a mirror onto the world. By using a naturally unreflective surface to create reflections,

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