Abundance, 2007



Abundance is a temporary public installation which works with a video camera that is installed on the City Hall that records the gestures of people in the plaza below. It is a platform to allow participants to humanize and personalize the site through twisting their sense of ownership towards a place that is already considerably theirs, but publically. A big animation, in an approximately 80’ x 60’ projection will be produced based on the participant’s gesture in the plaza. As participants crowd together or scattered, Abundance will detect such movements and respond to it.

Utterback uses this installation to adhere her artwork with the building’s architecture, by adding graphic elements and behaviours to Abundance that uses the Rotunda’s projection surface as input, thus allowing it to respond more distinctly to the characteristics of the building.

White lines are included into the projection which adjusted to the thin strips of the building, as participants cross these lines, moon-shaped graphic are projected. The animation will change when it comes to contact with a passage between glass and aluminium on the front of the building.

Utterback’s comment on abundance is that :

 “ My goal is to create an interesting feedback system between people and the graphics.”

This piece was commissioned for the City of San Jose, California by ZERo1 – The Art and Technology Network, and was exhibited in San Jose City Hall Plaza and Rotunda, San Jose, CA from September 28 – October 6, 2007.



References

http://camilleutterback.com/projects/abundance/

http://mobileaudience.blogspot.com/2007/09/camille-utterback-abundance.html

 1. http://vimeo.com/2050418