Open Head is Marnix de Nijss first interactive installation. Engine-powered the machine rotates a monitor attached to an arm of steel, which can reach a top speed of 120 km/hour. A visible image only appears on the screen when it is transformed by both the gravitational force on the monitors cathode tube and the shutter effect created from the speed of the spinning image.
If there are no onlookers the machine remains at a constant base-speed. However, when a visitor oversteps the outlined boundary and comes precariously close to the machine, it will accelerate and consequently allow them to clearly see the generated images.
In our constantly upgraded information culture we are forced to continually absorb information faster. This installation seeks to explore the possibility of influencing our visual perception of speed. At what price and at what length will we go to in order to perceive an image? Open Head dangerously whisks past us. And yet we are intrigued. Being enticed any closer would be like tempting fate but then again should we simply resolve ourselves to leaving the monitor alone to cope with the spinning action?
(source: http://marnixdenijs.nl)