Digital artist Camille Utterback makes installations that combine cameras, projectors and custom software to create interactive, playful paintings.
Stand in front of her work, and you’ll soon be waving your arms, walking around, spinning or hopping to figure out how your movements get translated into the abstract, colorful strokes on the screen.
“What it feels like is that the visuals are just responding to your body,” Utterback says in this video produced by Wired.com.
In these artworks, cameras track the movements of people standing in front of them, computer software translates those movements into abstract imagery according to a defined set of rules, and a projector throws the ever-evolving digital painting onto a screen in front of the viewers.
The work also invites reflection on the relationship between our bodies and the technology that surrounds us, Utterback says.
Utterback was named a MacArthur Fellow in September 2009. This $500,000, no-strings-attached “genius grant” will enable her to continue producing her art for the next five or more years.
