Sound And Movement Translated Into A Digital Imprint

Data! It's all around us, defining us and letting governments track us as we traverse the network and go about our online lives. In an new work called Passage from designers Bonjour, this digital trail is represented in the form of your frozen image, captured as you walk into a darkened room. The image is held briefly, in whatever pose you choose to strike, before it shatters to the ground and an ominous white band of light wipes you away and awaits the next person to manifest.

Exhibited at the Carrousel du Louvre, a shopping mall in Paris, as visitors approach it a Kinect camera senses their movements which are then translated, along with the sounds they make, into a visual imprint providing a "representation of the data we leave in spite of ourselves, at each of our visits on the web."

The fleeting digital portraits look great, if a little haunting and dystopian, and not the sort of thing you expect to come across when you're out window-shopping in an underground mall in the centre of Paris. Which makes it all the better.

Images via Bonjour's Flickr

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