Drift Grid  <-Click Link to View

Drift Grid interested me because it was described as a responsive piece that reacts to the audience’s presence without depicting it. I feel like multiple pieces have explored the idea of reflecting a viewer’s image or shadow (like Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Eye Contact and Daniel Rozin’s multiple Mirror pieces), but this one attempts to accommodate to a viewer’s face, instead of replicate it. The piece, separated into four columns of drifting blobs, freezes the upward movement of any column (and the blobs in that column) when a face is detected in front of it. This allows not only for viewers to control the piece, but also for them to get a better look at it, to stop it, to maintain it.

(MediaArtTube)