Shadow Monsters by Philip Worthington, from the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MOMA in NYC. April 2008.
Yoon: Today, before the tutorial, I was trying to expand my idea in the exactly same way. I actually tried to present that the shadow would not only reflect their hand. The shadow would be transformed in somehow random way with fake shadows by pre-produced animations. Which means that the same as this great piece (above). I could have commited the plagiarism, but Chris said, it would be enough if I am stuck on the first idea with some deeper development. So, now I'm back to the original. I am happy with that I can still use the tactile things. The sense of "touching" might be the key point of this project.
So, who the hell is him..
"Q. How did the design of the Shadow Monsters project develop?
A. The Shadow Monsters grew from a brief about technological magic tricks. I was looking at optical illusions and Victorian hand shadows particularly interested me as a starting point. The subtlety with which a character could be created was already very magical and I wondered if there was room to experiment with these techniques. Looking back to my own childhood, I remembered the feeling of casting huge shapes in the light of my father’s slide projector, creating monsters and silly animals. I enjoy working with simple intuitive things; playful feelings that touch us on a very basic level.
At the same time I was experimenting with some software for vision recognition so slowly the monsters evolved. At first I made a puppet show with coloured pencils that had hair and eyes... and this slowly grew in complexity until I had a system that could go some of the way to understanding hand posture. The rest is history."
http://designmuseum.org/design/philip-worthington
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