»Mirror« 
Light Box
Light Box
© http://www.fortlaan17.com/artists/lawrence-malstaf/works/1979/; Lawrence Malstaf
Keywords
- aesthetics
- acoustic
- affective
- anamorphic
- animated
- anthropomorph
- assembled
- automated
- autopoietic
- collaborative
- contextual
- cybernetic
- disgusting
- distorted
- documenting
- duplicated
- dynamic system
- ephemeral
- experimental
- found object
- generative
- gustatory
- hypermediacy
- illusionary
- immaterial
- immersive
- installation-based
- interactive
- intermedial
- intervention
- mobile
- modular
- multi-user
- multiple
- narrative
- navigable
- networked
- olfactory
- panoramatic
- performative
- polysensory
- processual
- projected
- psychedelic
- real-time
- realistic
- remediated
- remixed
- sculptural
- site-specific
- sonification
- sublime
- tactile
- telematic
- three-dimensional
- time-based
- uncanny
- virtual
- visual
- genre
- Bio Art
- Genetic Art
- Transgenic Art
- Concept Art
- Database Art
- Digital Activism
- Digital Animation
- Digital Community (Social Network)
- Digital Graphics
- Game Art
- Glitch Art
- Hybrid Art
- Installation
- augmented reality
- interactive installation
- mixed reality
- performative installation
- sound installation
- virtual reality
- 360° virtual walktrough
- light art
- Nano Art
- Net Art
- Performance
- Computer performance
- Happening
- multimedia performance
- sound performance
- video performance
- robotics
- Telematic Art
- Bio Art
- subject
- ART AND SCIENCE
- algorithm
- anthropology
- archaeology
- artificial intelligence
- astronomy
- biology
- botany
- cartography
- code
- combinatorics
- cyberspace
- database
- documentation
- emergence
- evidence
- experiment
- geography
- geometry
- history of science
- humanities
- library
- light
- machine
- mathematic
- medicine
- microscopy
- nanotechnology
- neuroscience
- philosophy
- metaphysics
- physics
- psychology
- Representation of knowledge
- research
- science
- scientific image
- space
- statistics
- stereoscope
- ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
- allegory
- anamorphosis
- animation
- architecture
- art history
- art market
- artistic invention
- beauty
- cinema
- collage
- comics
- conservation
- dance
- drawing
- expanded cinema
- fashion
- gaze
- grid
- illusion
- image
- literature
- mask
- materiality
- mirror
- model
- museum
- music
- nude
- ornament
- painting
- panopticon
- panorama
- personification
- perspective
- photography
- poetry
- portrait
- projection
- representation
- sculpture
- shadow
- sketch
- spectator
- still life
- symbolism
- theatre
- theory
- complexity
- media theory
- modernism
- postmodernism
- poststructuralism
- semiotics
- simulacrum
- virtuality
- visual culture
- BODY AND PSYCHOLOGY
- affect
- agency
- alienation
- amnesia
- anatomy
- anger
- anxiety
- body
- breathing
- cognition
- curiosity
- cybersex
- cyborg
- death
- depression
- disease
- disgust
- dream
- ecstasy
- embodiment
- emotion
- empathy
- erotic
- experience
- expression
- eye
- facial expression
- fantasy
- fear
- feeling
- gender
- genetics
- gesture
- hand
- happiness
- human
- identity
- imagination
- intimacy
- isolation
- joy
- loneliness
- love
- mental disorder
- movement
- narcissism
- optimism
- pain
- paranoia
- perception
- performativity
- pessimism
- physiognomy
- pleasure
- posthuman
- psyche
- psychoanalysis
- psychosis
- sadness
- self awareness
- senses
- hearing
- sight
- smell
- taste
- touch
- sexuality
- shame
- shock
- skin
- speech
- stress
- surgery
- trust
- unconsciousness
- HISTORY AND MEMORY
- ancestor
- antiquity
- archive
- artifacts
- collective memory
- colonialism
- cultural heritage
- historical site
- historism
- history
- meme
- memorial
- modern era
- nostalgia
- postcolonialism
- preservation
- romanticism
- teleology
- tradition
- MAGIC AND PHANTASTIC
- alchemy
- animism
- enchantment
- ghost
- horoscope
- illusion
- magic
- occultism
- sorcery
- supernaturalism
- superstition
- telepathy
- MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
- access
- advertising
- Big Data
- broadcast
- commerce
- communication
- electronic media
- error message
- fiction
- film
- global village
- hypertext
- information
- intermediality
- internet
- language
- media archaeology
- open source
- print media
- radio
- search engine
- social media
- storytelling
- telecommunication
- telephone
- television
- video surveillance
- visualisation
- writing
- NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT
- agriculture
- animal
- anthropocentrism
- atmosphere
- catastrophe
- DNA
- earth
- ecosystem/ecology
- energy
- environment
- evolution
- four elements
- geology
- global warming
- globe
- landscape
- magnetism
- nature
- ocean
- outer space
- physical law
- plant
- pollution
- sustainability
- topography
- vegetation
- water
- weather
- POWER AND POLITICS
- authority
- banking
- censorship
- conspiracy
- democracy
- discrimination
- economy
- equality
- geopolitics
- governance
- heroism
- human rights
- imperialism
- institution
- law
- manipulation
- market
- military
- nationalism
- patriarchy
- politics
- sovereignty
- surveillance
- terrorism
- violence
- warfare
- RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY
- afterlife
- bible
- church
- creation
- crucifixion
- esoterism
- exodus
- heretic
- legend
- mysticism
- myth
- mythological creature
- mythology
- paradise
- religion
- buddhism
- christianity
- islam
- judaism
- ritual
- sacrifice
- Saint
- sin
- spirituality
- vision
- worship
- SOCIETY AND CULTURE
- activism
- border
- capitalism
- surveillance-capitalism
- city
- civilisation
- community
- consumption
- counterculture
- country
- digital identity
- diversity
- entertainment
- comedy
- festival
- game
- mass culture
- parody
- phantasmagoria
- popular culture
- spectacle
- toys
- ethnicity
- feminism
- folklore
- food
- globalization
- individuality
- information society
- interculturalism
- mass
- migration
- minority
- morality
- native
- otherness
- participation
- poverty
- privacy
- public space
- racism
- territory
- unemployment
- urban space
- utopia
- voyeurism
- wealth
- working class
- TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
- ambient intelligence
- artificial intelligence
- artificial life
- biocomputer
- blockchain
- cybernetics
- development
- digitization
- electricity
- emulation
- engineering
- history of technology
- innovation
- intelligent environment
- invention
- mechanics
- military technology
- mobility
- nonhuman communication
- optics
- product design
- production
- robot
- simulation
- software manipulations
- supercomputing
- technophobia
- telematics
- telepresence
- ART AND SCIENCE
- Technology
- Display
- Electronic displays
- BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
- CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
- computer monitor
- dome
- Electromechanical Display Device
- Electronic Paper
- flashlight
- Head-up Display
- Headphones
- HMD (Head-mounted Display)
- holography
- laser
- light-emitting diode
- lightbox
- plasma
- printer
- projection screen
- projector
- robotic
- speakers
- VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
- VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
- Non-electronic displays
- body
- Book
- easel painting
- globe
- house wall
- inflatable structure
- mirror
- paper
- sculpture
- shutter glasses
- sofa
- Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
- table
- Electronic displays
- Hardware
- camera
- computer mouse
- data glove
- Joystick
- MAC
- Mobile Device
- multi touchscreen
- plotter
- scanner
- touchscreen
- Video
- webcam
- Interface
- Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
- Biological Sensor
- biometrics
- Body sensor
- Body Tracking
- brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
- breathing sensor
- Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
- Endoscope
- eye scanner
- facial recognition system
- Motion Capture
- positiontracker
- retina scanner
- Speech Recognition
- step sensor
- camera recording
- electromagnetism
- interactive media
- Auditory User Interface (AUI)
- Augmented Reality Interfaces
- breath based communication
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Ludic Interface
- MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
- Multi-Modal Interaction
- tactile user interfaces
- Tangible Acoustic Interface
- Tangible User Interface (TUI)
- Voice User interface
- Non-electronic interface
- bike
- doll
- furniture
- plant
- robotic interfaces
- Soundgenerating device
- Audiotape
- keyboard
- microphone
- musical instrument
- RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
- syntheziser
- telephone
- Theremin
- turntable
- voice analysis
- virtual balance
- Software
- C++
- CGI/Perl
- CSS
- Global Positioning System (GPS)
- ISDN
- Java
- Linux
- Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- periscope
- PHP
- RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
- SGI Onyx2
- softimage
- software interface
- Video
- VRML
- Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
- XML
- Display
Information
Lawrence Malstaf >
»Mirror«, 2002 - 2008
http://www.fortlaan17.com/artists/lawrence-malstaf/works/1979/
Cite
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Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Lawrence Malstaf - »Mirror«”. https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/mirror.html?tx_vawiz_pi1%5Baid%5D=0%3Fkeyworduid%3D460&cHash=47f20f502fff64e9806d4f54b7fae48a (retrieved 2010-06-08).
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Technology
Descriptions & Essays
A dark room with a large vibrating mirror deforms the reflection of the visitor. (The installation is to be visited individually.) At first the vibrations are so subtle that you might wonder if it are your own eyes that are having trouble to focus. But gradually it becomes more obvious that the mirror is actually moving and mutating the mirror image into a Francis Bacon portrait. Yet the visual impression is so real that some people feel the urge to check if their body is actually decomposing or not. In the end the body evaporates and disappears.
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