The Flow Room

The Flow Room

Dual showcase in New York and Shanghai.

Showcase One: November 19, 7am - 9am

Showcase Two: November 19, 8pm - 10pm

Venue: Riese Lounge, NYU Tisch, 721 Broadway, 1st Floor

On View Until November 21, 8am.

Project by Jung Hyun Moon, Jiwon Shin and Lisa Jamhoury.

The Flow Room is a web-based virtual space that allows people from different physical locations to simultaneously communicate through live physical movement.

When we go online, we enter a virtual “space.” We often go mindlessly. We never go physically. We flow from site to site, link after link, into one space, then another. In The Flow Room, people are invited to explore their physical presence in the internet. In this place, bodies find new ways of interacting with themselves, others and the space itself.

The Flow Room extends Kinectron, an open source tool that brings real time, motion capture data into the browser. Each physical Flow Room installation includes floor-to-ceiling projection, two Microsoft Kinects and The Flow Roomserver. The Kinect sends volumetric imagery of the participants to a website to be broadcast in real time. The result is a live physical and virtual experience visualizing and sonifying interaction among people across the globe.

Featuring a collaborative project between ITP and NYU Shanghai IMA and Visual Arts programs.

This project was supported by the Visual Arts initiative grant from the New York University Arts Council.