Text Rain

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

Artwork Details

Title
Text Rain
Artists
Date
1999
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
dimensions variable
Copyright
© 1999, Romy Achituv and Camille Utterback
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the American Art Forum
Mediums
Mediums Description
interactive digital installation
Classifications
Subjects
  • Figure group
  • Object — letter
Object Number
2015.14
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2015.14

Artwork Description

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.


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