Himalaya's Head
Himalaya's Head is an interactive multi user installation about mismatches
between images on the retina and head movements. Participants experience
that things don't seem to happen in a normal pace because the natural
balance between their action and feedback is lost.
The audience wears a lightweight head beacon with infrared leds, which
are captured by a camera hanging above them. The computer uses this information
to calculate the head positions and direct a 3d world and its dynamic
3d objects.
Each participant gets control over one snowball, which reacts to their head
movements, giving them the sensation of floating through the landscape
themselves. But the snowballs move and react in such a way, that it feels
as if the air is thick and dense.
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Himalaya’s Head was shown at
• Homo Ludens Ludens, LABoral 2008, Gíjon, Spain.
• Espacio Cultural El Tanque 2007, Tenerife, Spain
• Banff Centre 2007, Banff, Canada.
• Gaming realities, Medi@terra 2006, Athens, Greece.
• State of the Image 2006, Arnhem, Netherlands.
• ACM SIGCHI ACE (art exhibition) 2006, Los Angeles, USA.
• NICOGRAPH International 2006, Seoul, Korea.
• CeC & CaC 2006, New Delhi, India.
• Silver Lake Film Festival 2006, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
• 5th International Image Festival, Manizales- Caldas, Colombia.
• Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag Society 2005, Amsterdam, NL.