Augmented Hand Series (Demonstration)
2014 · 2m · USA
Directed by Golan Levin
Genres: experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
A documentation of an interactive software installation — conceived by Levin, Chris Sugrue, and Kyle McDonald — in which real-time hand recognition produces twenty dynamic scenes that playfully transform visitors' hands: fingers multiply, palms warp, movements exaggerate.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Levin holds multiple Prix Ars Electronica awards and is among the most rigorous practitioners of interactive art operating within an academic research context; the Cinekid commission and Carnegie Mellon institutional backing confirm this is not amateur creative coding.
Same project, earlier demo. Same caveat — this is installation documentation. The work isn't the video, and the video knows it.
A 1:50 demo of an installation whose actual quality is haptic — Levin/Sugrue/McDonald's hand-warping software loses something when you can't put your hand in it. Charming as record, thin as standalone film.
Festivals
- Cinekid Festival 2014