Magic Mirror(s)
2005, interactive installation, software development and integrated communication system
art concept: Anita Sarosi, programming: Gergo Kiss, Viktor Vicsek
'Magic Mirror' is a series of digital displays employing real-time technical reflection, allowing users to become both the creators and the content of the images. Regardless of age or technological expertise, the installation stimulates human creativity and encourages intuitive human-computer interaction.
The series consists of three variations:
№1 Invisible - the viewer disappears in the digital mirror when standing still, while movement produces a transparent, fluid-like body on the screen.
№2 Time Mirror - continuously generates an updated moving image of the viewer, visualizing processes over time.
№3 Fusion - accumulates and continuously draws with the images of moving visitors.
Installed at the Palace of Miracles, Budapest the project attracted 520,000 active visitors in 2006, who sent 36,000 self-created images through the integrated communication system. Over its entire run, more than 1 million people experienced the installation, making it Hungary’s most successful media art project to date.
Special thanks to MTA SZTAKI
