"Glitch//Body"- 2025

Interactive installation with Circuit-bent camera footage composited with Xbox Kinect v2 depth sensor in TouchDesigner

Actress: Iris Bean Instrumental: Noah Wilcox

Video filmed through a circuit-bent camera gives beauty to noise, allowing you to embrace technology from a unique perspective. Your own experiences bridge a unity between the world you perceive and the world recorded through circuit-bending. I am putting the viewer into the space of circuit-bent film, where they can interact with the environment, resulting in harmony between separate perceived realities.

I have done this by filming a scene with a circuit-bent camera, framing the subject to always be on the right side of the screen so the viewer inserts themself into the left side of the frame. I then edited the clips together to form a story of the viewer approaching the girl and then spending time with her, ending with them saying goodbye. I then created a visual using an Xbox Kinect v2 and TouchDesigner to simulate a point cloud onto the viewer that has 3 modes, switching when the viewer raises their right arm past a certain y-threshold. I also programmed it so that the color of the video changes corresponding to the y-coordinate of the right arm. I also programmed it so the light blooms every time the bass in the song hits, adding a live audio-responsive element. I then programmed the depth data of the Kinect sensor not to pick up background scenery corresponding to the installation area because this would hinder the immersion. Lastly, I used the viewer as an activation trigger to make it more immersive by having the Kinect sensor play a looping video with on-screen instructions until it recognizes a user, which it then switches to the main video with audio. Then I made sure that when a viewer leaves, it returns to the instructional screen. The viewer interacts with the video as the actress in the video prompts the user to interact with her, creating a blend between realities of the "circuit-bent world" and ours.

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