05/03/2026
MODULE 3 REFLECTION: MIRRORING AND MIRRORED? 🪞💫
In Module 3, we explored the mirror as both metaphor and medium—examining how identity, perception, and technological mediation co-produce one another. Led by artist-fellow Andreas Schlegel, this module asked: how do interactive systems shape our self-perception and relational ethics?
In his lecture and artist talk on 8 January 2026, Andreas drew from Lacan’s mirror stage to position interactive art as a conversation between self-perception and external feedback. Tracing a lineage from Dan Graham’s feedback installations to contemporary works by Memo Akten and Rebecca Fiebrink— the mirror recurs as an intelligent surface mediating sensory experience and symbolic meaning.
Guest artist Aditi Neti expanded this exploration into biotechnological domains, examining how interactive systems make space for slowness and care, proposing that living materials and cultural memory also serve as mirrors reflecting our relational ethics.
Their workshops on 10 & 17 January 2026 transformed these concepts into hands-on practice. Using we**am input in p5.js, participants explored motion tracking through pose detection. The first workshop introduced the slit-scan technique, blending temporal distortion with performative immediacy. Participants explored templates tracking body keypoints, experimenting with the camera as creative partner.
The second workshop introduced machine-learning classifiers, echoing Rebecca Fiebrink’s Wekinator. Participants trained models recognizing gestures, linking poses to trigger sound and visuals. Discussions explored how recognition confidence could translate into expressive variation—discovering poetry in the imperfect space between human gesture and machine interpretation.
Organised by .space
Produced by .sg
Supported by Arts x Tech Lab