Act/React

The two exhibits I'd like to compare and contrast are Snow Mirror by Daniel Rozin and Healing #1 by Brian Knep. Both exhibits are a form of digital interactivity that George Fifield talks about in his article. They require some sort of interaction to be realized to their full extent. It's somewhat interesting however to look at the level of passiveness that is involved in Snow Mirror. Unlike Healing #1 where the participant must move around the floor-piece constantly in order to form the psychedelic designs, Rozin's piece requires the subject to remain inactive for a short period of time so that the pixels may form on the screen to produce our image. The relationship that these two pieces, as well as the whole Act/React installation share is that they seem to address the danger of technology overriding artistic human nature that Fifield talks about. This new form of interactive art provides a hybrid of both technology and and art and fully realizes the notion of "2nd person cinema" that Duchamp was a subscriber to.