Shadow, 2002
Scott Snibbe

Shadow, 2002 computer, projector, video camera, video capture card, retroreflective screen, custom software

quicktime video

Shadow inverts the relationship between audience and screen by making the audience active and the screen receptive. Shadow presents a static rectangle of white light projected onto a screen. As viewers move in front of the projector, their bodies form shadows on the screen. After viewers move out of the projected beam’s path, the movements of their shadows are replayed over and over, gradually fading away and returning to the pure white projection. In this way, viewers experience their shadows as detached from their physical bodies, and as public artifacts.

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Photographs by Scott Snibbe and Kyle Knobel
(c) 2002-2004 Scott Snibbe