Mixed Body
photos by Bill Hebert and Jon Olshefski
Mixed Body is an interactive video installation and dance performance that focuses on the body as a source of identity in both the physical and virtual realms. The goal of the project is to explore the experience of physical identity through visual metaphors that deconstruct images of the body into collectable, recordable and remixable bits of data. The project explores the body as a source of information that can be used by official entities to establish a person's legal identity.
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Biometrics
The relevance of the project is reflected in current public and private affairs where identity has been abstracted into a series of numbers, passwords, x-ray images, fingerprints and other types of data. Mixed Body looks at the experience of the "body as data" in the center of a narrative recounting how measurable and collectable aspects of corporeality is utilized to establish and legitimize a person's identity. Participation in the project will foster reflection on the implications of this physical phenomenon.
