Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain, 2008

(electronics design by Danny Bazo)

video projection, headphones, step plate, custom software

Smashing is an interactive new media installation where motion

triggers audio and video. Visitors are invited to make a silent vow

and then to stomp on a floor plate. The impact triggers a projected

slow-motion video of breaking glass accompanied by a musical track

that responds to the quality of each impact.

Shattered glass has punctuated crises and transformations through

history and across cultures from Kristallnacht to the Watts Riots to

the breaking of a glass at the conclusion of the Jewish wedding

ceremony.

Smashing debuted on opening night of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in

San Francisco on June 7, 2008.  It was exhibited at the Pulse NY

Contemporary Art Fair, in New York on March 5-8, 2009.  The first

edition was acquired by 21C, the contemporary art museum in

Louisville, Kentucky supported by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson.

Sample installation photos: http://smashing.shutterfly.com/

Edition of 3.

Represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery, SF, CA

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