This piece is an interactive installation which attempts to generate a non-existing life-form.
Two devices which imitate hand movements are installed in the space. Attached to the tip of a thin rod protruding from the upper portion of the device which continuously rotates in a unidirectional manner, is a ribbon used in rhythmic gymnastics, measuring 3 meters in length.
In regard to the upper portion of the device, which forms its arm, the viewer inputs their own hand movements. While the viewer is inputting their movements, the device matches the viewers hand motions, as if learning them, imitating those actions, extracting and recording them. Once recording is complete, the device repeats the recorded movements in an infinite loop.
The device plays back the recorded data, and through the rising and falling movements of the arm, the ribbon flutters and dances dynamically through the air. The viewer can perceive the beauty of the ribbon's movements. On the other hand, the sight of this device calibrating itself to faithfully reproduce its acquired data, is a display of its mechanical aspects, and leaves an eerie impression upon the viewer.
