Daniel Rozen's Interactive Weave and Peg Mirrors

The "Weave Mirror" and "Peg Mirror" projects from Daniel Rozin are both interactive installations that use physical objects as pixels to create a low-rez, real-time display. Weave Mirror uses strips of laminate with varying shades of grey, which it turns to match the grayscale value of its camera, while Peg Mirror turns its 650 wooden dowels that are cut at an angle to produce varying shadows.

Rozin has been building similar projects for a while. His "Wooden Mirror" was first shown in 1999; I remember seeing a video of the project and having my mind completely blown. It was, in retrospect, one of the things that planted the seed for a move to New York in my brain, to see strange artifacts grown in a metal city.

Rozin's interactive mirrors at Bitforms [WMMNA]

[#1 posted by pork musket , September 17, 2007 8:58 AM]

That is extremely awesome.

[#2 posted by Jon Gallagher , September 19, 2007 3:08 PM]

The piece challenges notions about what constitutes a “digital object”.

This video shows both absurdity and wonder invilved in rendering a digital image of an analog object using analog surfaces. Any A to D conversion is costly and inherently lossy, while D to A (think CRT) is usually less expensive and not as prone to loss. Using such a lossy but beautiful surface as the display medium is brilliant.