Report: ITP Winter Show 2006: Tiny People Trapped in Bottles: Animalia Chordata

My favorite piece from the show! (more great projects coming soon in separate posts)

A projector projects onto glass bottles (Gabe said there was just printer paper on the back to catch the projection, nothing fancy) but what's great about this piece is it looks like there are 5 different projections although it's just one.

When you get close to them, the little people inside the bottle start to get agitated and gesture at you to go away, help them, or just start jumping up and down. When you step back, they calm down and go back to relaxing in their bottles.

By: Gabe Barcia-Colombo
"A wide variety of human specimens have been collected in bottles and placed on view for your enjoyment. Watch as they struggle to get out! The characters in bottles each respond to your presence and while some beg you for help, others fear for their lives.

Animalia Chordata is a video installation based upon the idea of collecting bugs as a child. What if you could collect people?
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