Public interface effects: re-embodiment and transversality in public projection.

Abstract

Public projections serve to both complicate and augment the relationship between various entities in public space by creating affordances for the enfolding of temporal, spatial, and material contexts via digital-networked media. Drawing on the work of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Camille Utterback, the authors argue that re-embodiment and transversality are key interface effects of successful public projection installations. These tactics serve an important function in engaging negotiated subjectivities and identities within the shifting parameters of media and the city. The discussion concludes with a brief description of "The Line," a research-creation project proposed by the authors which attempts to instantiate some of the strategies covered.