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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Unreflective Mirror
Masaki Fujihata
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Unreflective Mirror is an extended version of a traditional mirror – even the appearance is quite similar to an ordinary mirror. From the technical side it is realized with virtual reality using 3D position tracking and passive stereo projection.
However, it is a totally fake mirror. In it, a viewer wearing polarized filter glasses sees the glasses as a reflection, but cannot see themselves. Also, the reflected image of the back walls follows the eye coordination of the viewer. Viewers can experience a strange feeling of the loss of their existence or the feeling of new type of an artificial shadow self.
To make this effect stronger, a surveillance camera and a monitor display are added to the room. These instruments are also reflected in the fake mirror. The reflected image on the 3D model of the monitor display in the fake mirror shows video images from the surveillance camera, which are captured in real time through a PC. The viewer can see herself or himself in the display monitor in the fake mirror, but otherwise only the glasses indicating the viewer’s movement can be seen. Only the viewer’s body is missing from the mirror.
Links: www.fujihata.jp
However, it is a totally fake mirror. In it, a viewer wearing polarized filter glasses sees the glasses as a reflection, but cannot see themselves. Also, the reflected image of the back walls follows the eye coordination of the viewer. Viewers can experience a strange feeling of the loss of their existence or the feeling of new type of an artificial shadow self.
To make this effect stronger, a surveillance camera and a monitor display are added to the room. These instruments are also reflected in the fake mirror. The reflected image on the 3D model of the monitor display in the fake mirror shows video images from the surveillance camera, which are captured in real time through a PC. The viewer can see herself or himself in the display monitor in the fake mirror, but otherwise only the glasses indicating the viewer’s movement can be seen. Only the viewer’s body is missing from the mirror.
Links: www.fujihata.jp
Masaki Fujihata (JP), geb. 1956, Medienkünstler und Professor an der Graduate School of Film and New Media der Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Er begann seine Berufslaufbahn als digitaler Computer- und Animationsgrafiker in den frühen 1980er Jahren. In den frühen 1990er Jahren begann er sich mit interaktiver Kunst zu beschäftigen, wobei er sich auf GPS-Technologie konzentrierte und versuchte, diese Militärtechnik in ein Medium zu verwandeln, bei dem wir uns selbst als künstlerisch wirksame Instanz wahrnehmen. Zwischen 2003 und 2005 beschäftigte er sich in einer Reihe von Arbeiten vor allem mit der Rekonfiguration des visuellen Systems, und zwar mithilfe einer Panoramakamera, eines virtuellen Spiegels und eines Laser-Scanning-Systems.