Golan Levin
Interactive systems that make gesture visible and audible. With Zach Lieberman, he forms TMEMA, whose The Manual Input Sessions was shown at IMC Expo.
The Manual Input Sessions
Hands, light, sound.
Hands and objects cross the glass of an overhead projector. A camera reads their silhouettes; custom software turns their shapes and movement into graphics and sound. Analog shadows and digital projections share the same surface.
TMEMA developed the work as a performance and as an interactive installation, The Manual Input Workstation.
Presented at the 2nd IMC Exposition, Chelsea Art Museum, April 14–23, 2005. Explore the IMC Expo archive and the artists’ project documentation.
Art in the act of responding.
Golan Levin is an artist, engineer and educator whose work explores computation through interactive installations, performances and visual systems. Gesture, perception and nonverbal communication are recurring materials: the viewer’s actions help shape the work.
His practice spans audiovisual instruments, responsive robotics, digital fabrication and data visualization. He is Professor of Electronic Art at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches creative computation and experimental interaction. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has appeared in the Whitney Biennial.
With Zach Lieberman, he developed TMEMA’s performances and installations. Biography at Carnegie Mellon · Selected works.