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Abstract
"Hallucination" is an interactive video installation mixing live imagery with images from videodisc and videotape creating a real size, real time distorted mirror effect on the monitor. The mirror sets the viewer on fire, and also puts a "virtual" woman in the reflection, who is not really in the room. Sometimes the woman observes the viewers passively and at other times her actions affect the virtual space.
Artists / Authors
- Jim Campbell
Cooperators
- Mark Burnley
- Alexandra Tana
Origination
United States, 1988-1990
Comment
"Hallucination" is an updated version of "Interactive Hallucination" which does not have the "virtual" woman as part of her work. The installation was first shown in 1990 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in the first major exhibiton of the Department of Media Arts of the museum called "Bay Area Media". The exhibition was organized by curator Robert R. Riley and highlighted the achievements of 10 artists who pioneered a variety of media art forms distinctive to the San Francisco Bay Area.
Afterwards, "Hallucination" was shown in several art exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world and a site specific version of the work was purchased by the Gap Corporation in 1990 for display in their corporate headquarter's art gallery.
"Hallucination" can be considered as one of the art works by which Jim Campbell pioneered the use of electronic media for installations and sculptures that react to the visitor.
"Campbell's environment for art, and research, is the pervasive arena of new technologies: software, electronic components, programming languages, the physics of waveform and light, transmission and frequency.
(Robert R. Riley)
Submission
, Feb 18, 2004
Category
- artistic production
Keywords
- Topics:
- representation |
- visual effects |
- body |
- media art |
- sound |
- interactivity |
- telepresence
- Formats:
- installation |
- video
- Technology:
- digital video
Additions to Keyword List
- Monitor |
- Video Difference Keyer |
- Laserdisc