What happens when you manipulate a traditionally hard surface so that it behaves like fabric? \u00a0Vito Acconci studio\u2019s installation in the Bronx museum, \u201cLOBBY-FOR-THE-TIME-BEING,\u201d is a wrapping, and twisting installation that coerced Corian\u2014a typically hard, flat surface\u2014to behave in ways otherwise expected.\u00a0\u00a0In response to their call for an interactive projection in conjunction with their installation, my partner Angela Chen and I created \u201cSkin Tight,\u201d orchestrating a series of abstract gestural movements to be projected onto the Corian surface to render what was once inflexible as malleable.<\/p>\n
Cut it open & slit it into strips (it can be pulled now & stretched to one-&-a-half times its length): pit it & gouge it, pock-mark it (it\u2019s become malleable now, flexible): roll it & curve it, fold it, braid & knot it (it functions now as its own structure). Let\u2019s take slick sleek Corian & turn it into lace: let\u2019s take the surface of lace & mold it into structure\u2026-Vito Acconci<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The creation process involved a number of experiments with shape, form, and movement on a stretched spandex frame which were than later edited to fit specific, physical locations on the installation. The control and interaction of the video was done through Max\/MSP & Jitter.<\/p>\n
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