New Angles: Magic mirror creates moveable art

New York – Artist Daniel Rozin has created the Angles Mirror, the latest piece in a series of mechanical mirrors that translates what a video camera sees into moveable art.

Artists are increasingly using moving installations in their artwork to reflect the world around them and to visualise things such as data, as we reported in our Show Time Seed.

Part of his Angles show, to be exhibited at the Bitforms Gallery in New York, the Angles Mirror uses a camera and custom-built software to translate what the camera sees into simple pixels that then move across the art. Dozens of clock-like hands rotate and re-align to form patterns when anyone or anything moves in front of it.