Dancing mirror: an interactive installation for discovery of aesthetic in motions

"Dancing Mirror" is the interactive installation that extracts a part of participants' motions and uses them as materials for restructured visual "Dance" motions corresponding to musical sequences. It also means that this installation is to magnify a part of everyday life motions and to make participants conscious of how much their motions include possibilities and elements extendable to artistic expressions such as dance. It uses the web camera for recording all the participants’ movements and, as a feedback, the projector that plays back the recorded movie data just before. Altering the playback speed and direction turns the recorded movie into dancing sequences. Both processes of recording and playing back are running in parallel continuously. The simple way of interaction materializes that participants easily experience it and create their own expression of moitons. Because of the simple structure of using web camera, laptop computer and audio speakers, "Dancing Mirror" has the adequate robustness for long-period exhibitions