Thursday, October 2nd 2008
Reflect on the thinking mirror...
Artists rAndom International, together with Chris O’Shea have created this great installation piece called Audience.
Audience is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects on the floor of for the Royal Opera House for the Deloitte Ignite Festival.
When members of the audience occupy the space, the mirrors inquisitively follow someone that they find interesting. Having chosen their subject, they all synchronise and turn their heads towards them. Suddenly that person can see their reflection in all of the mirrors. They will watch this person until they become disinterested, then either seek out another subject or return to their private chatter. The collective behaviour of the objects is beyond the control of the viewer, as it is left entirely to their discretion to let go of their subject.
Audience from Chris O’Shea on Vimeo.
There are more video clips of Audience in action here.
Posted by Richard on Thursday 2nd of October 2008 at 1:37pm
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