Daniel Rozin
Daniel Rozin’s Digital Interactive Art
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5:00 pm
Simons Center Lecture Hall 102
For almost three decades, Daniel Rozin has been exploring interactive mechanisms of reflection and perception. He creates and writes custom software with mechanical engineering while utilizing a wide range of material for installation, sculpture, and screens. Within Rozin’s impressive range of material––from furry puff balls to chopsticks––he considers what constitutes an image through interactive art allowing for an incredibly unique visitor experience.
Rozin is interested in uncanny materials—a challenge he implements as an artistic advantage. Assembling these discrete and unusual components, he creates interactive experiences into moving moments that “mirror” the viewer in their likeness. The kinetically dynamic “mirrors” are reflective, and often surprising to the visitor, responding to a person’s presence via a camera and physical computing or custom software in real-time. Accordingly, reflection and surface transformation become a means to explore human behavior, presence, and representation in Rozin’s art.
In FrameRates, the exhibition on view in the Simons Center Gallery, Rozin is investigating one of the foundational attributes of interaction—time or speed. The speed with which an interactive object responds to the viewer determines the nature of the interaction. The pieces in the show were chosen to demonstrate a range of speeds (frame rates) from super slow, immediate, to more accelerated paces.
