Final Year Studio - Research - David Rozin - Wooden Mirror

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This specific peice of work created by artist David Rozin was first displayed in 1999. Consisting of 830 wooden squares and servo motors, control electronics, video camera, computer and wooden frame, this peice stands at a size of 67" by 80". It works by using a video camera to capture an image, which is then compressed into 830 pixels. The computer than reads the values of these pixels and rotates each peice of wood to a certain angle and because of the spot light, shade. This creates a distinct but graduated image very close in relation to a grayscale low resolution version of the video. Also being wood it explores the line between digital and physcial by using a warm organic material such as wood to mimic like cold digital pixels. Rozin also developed this mirror technique and created the Trash, Shiny Balls, Circles and Peg Mirrors in the same light.

This peice is very useful to look at in relation to the idea in my sketchbook called, 'Mixels' (Mirrored Pixels). Here mirrored squares will move and react to room activity, constructing and breaking up a projected image depending on how the audience view the peice. The aim would be to change the audiences perception of what they know of as a screen and encompass them within the pixels them selves. This would change the enivronment they populate and its 'associative bandwidth.'

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