Farhad Bahram
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In Media Res

Bodily movement changes a field of eyes, text, and projected forms.

Interactive installation with motion sensing and projection2025

A participant facing responsive projected text and a moving form in a gallery.
01A participant encounters the responsive projection.

About the work

In Media Res uses the body to change a visual environment. A Kinect sensor registers participants’ positions and movement; software running on a pocket PC updates three visual components in response. Eyes, text, and moving forms shift as someone moves through the space.

The components—“to be perceived,” “to do,” and “to think”—place perception, action, and reflection in relation to one another. I am interested in how space shapes the experience of being, and how that experience changes when seeing also means being seen. The participant’s body is both the point from which the installation is encountered and something the installation perceives.

Movement through the space alters the projected imagery across three visual components.

Presented in Unbounded Territories at Evanston Art Center, 2025.

Documentation

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A projection screen stands beside a gallery wall bearing text.
02The installation in the gallery.
Repeating projected text surrounds an outlined rectangular field.
03Detail of the projected text and central field.
A young visitor gestures toward a screen filled with projected eyes and text.
04A visitor encounters the projected field.

Moving image

Video documentation
InteractionA participant moves through the responsive projection.1:00
Projection sequence 1:17
Projection sequenceA closer view of the changing eyes, text, and projected forms.1:17