Gesture control is undergoing something of a boom in the world of tech-led art installations, and at the same time, so too is the animated GIF. Now one artist has combined the two.
An installation, Gesture-Gesture, was put in place for FOREWARD at Atlanta's Gallery 72. Visitors placed their hands into sleeves hidden inside a box where software recorded three seconds of movement before creating a GIF. These are then projected onto gallery walls, each new animation replacing the last.
Gesture-Gesture was a collaboration between New York's Pablo Gnecco and coded by Dan Moore using custom software built in openFrameworks. The result is fleeting recordings of individual hand gestures that appear just for a moment in a physical space. But behind the scenes each image is also sent online, culminating in the anonymous archiving of participants' movements, which can be viewed digitally at Gesture-Gesture.com.