"Parallel Lives"

Hideyuki Ando、  Eisuke Kusachi、 Junji Watanabe

日本語

This work is composed of two touch monitors. Shadows of human beings are walking In a monitor, and real figures of human beings are walking in the other monitor. When the user touch the shadow, it disappears while giving tactile feedback to the user, and appear as a real figure in the other monitor. When the user touch the real figure, it disappears, while giving tactile feedback, and appears in the other monitor. The human beings in the monitors go back and forth between the two monitors by being touched.

 

History

Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto
2nd Sept - 12th Sept in 2010 @Kyoto Art Center

Japan Media Arts Festival in Okayama
30th Oct - 7th Nov in 2010 @Okayama Digital Museum

Special Program of the Japan Media Arts Festival in Miyazaki 
29th Jan - 13th Feb in 2011 @Miyazaki Art Center

Japan Media Arts Festival in Yamanashi
13th Jan - 20th Jan in 2013 @Yamanashi Prefectural Library

 


Touch the shadow or real figures of human beings


Projections of two touch monitors

 

 

(c) Hideyuki Ando, Eisuke Kusachi, Junji Watanabe (2010)

watanabe@avg.brl.ntt.co.jp