La Cara Rota
October 2009
This was my first interactive art project – a self portrait.
Back in 2009, when I started studying in Barcelona, I had a bicycle accident.
I lost consciousness and woke up at the hospital without knowing what had happened. I felt that my teeth and face were wrong so I took the hospital food knife next to me and discovered what my face looked like through the reflection.
I noticed that the close up image of my wounded face was very hard for people to watch. At the same time I was taking a course in interactive art, where we were discussing; what happens to art when it becomes interactive? What happens to the viewer when it is actively involved in viewing?
As a final project for this class I decided to let the viewer explore my broken face using the ‘knife-reflection’, if she decides that she wants to see it.
The knife here serves as a ‘lock hole’ encouraging curiosity and even voyeurism, as we are often faced with, in the new technological world.
I made this project using processing.
Implemented here in the website using – jsprocessing (thanks to Ayal Gelles)