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      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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      Date1887
      engraving
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