Text Rain

Camille Utterback, Romy Achituv, Text Rain, 1999, interactive digital installation, Smithsonian American Art Museum, © 1999, Romy Achituv and Camille Utterback, Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum, 2015.14

Exhibition Label

Text Rain is a ground breaking interactive artwork that explores the correspondence between language and the body. The projection activates a living space of simultaneous reflection and activation as participants engage with animated type from the poem “Talk, You” by Evan Zimroth. Jumbling the language of visual representation with the dynamics of spectatorship and interactivity, Text Rain draws attention to the symbolic codes embedded in our machines, further compounding the spaces we inhabit both virtually and physically. Reading the text places viewers in unusual positions and creates figures of speech that locate the sensation of a work of art within one’s physical experience.

Watch This!: Revelations in Media Art, 2015

Title

Text Rain

Artists

Camille Utterback

Romy Achituv

Date

1999

Location

Not on view

Dimensions