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Interactive installation

Rabota

A movement-based encounter in which a machine first asks to be followed, then gradually lets the visitor alter its path.

Date
2014
Medium
Movement, light, tracking
Role
Concept and prototype
With
Yann Deval
Place
Living Art Jam / Labokube

About the project

Rabota explores communication through imitation and movement. A travelling light establishes a path and a rhythm; the visitor begins by following it, and the system progressively gives more influence back.

What starts as obedience can become a loose negotiation between human and machine. The work is interested in the point where following becomes communication and where a repetitive task starts to feel social.