Teardrop was an interactive projection installation at the Landesmuseum (museum) Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck. The changing wall projections would interact with the visitors inside the installation room, before disappearing afterwards. The floor projections, however,  would trace every visitor’s movements and archive every visitor’s path for any given day. The daily paths generated are quite interesting – especially those for days where the museum was closed – where only one or 2 museum workers strolled through the room.

Descriptive text in the room inside the museum: “In our modern world, we leave digital traces that fade away and become invisible to the human eye. But we also leave more permanent traces we can always look back on. The installation Teardrop seeks to explore this subject and traces peoples’ activities both in a permanent and a non-permanent way.”

The interactive visuals were achieved through Processing and TouchDesigner, using Kinects to track the movement of museum visitors.

Team: Oliver Hamedinger, Jonas Rosenfelder, Lorenz Foth. Supervisors: Alexandra Moisi & Rupert Maleczek (University of Innsbruck). Curated by Roland Sila.