Impression, 2003
Scott Snibbe

Impression, 2003 computer, projector, video camera, video capture card, retroreflective screen, custom software

quicktime video

Impression preserves the silhouettes of the bodies that move across its surface. As visitors move into a projected rectangle, the profile of their shadow displaces the screen horizontally, so that one side of their silhouette is formed in light along the opposite edge of the screen. In this way, the screen absorbs the forms of the bodies that push against it – like clay it holds an impression.

After some time without any bodies within the projection, the screen’s edges slide back into their initial rectangular shape.

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photographs by Kyle Knobel, Tavo Olmos and Scott Snibbe
(c) 2003-2004 Scott Snibbe