Game Art: Bryan Cera's "CTRLR" (2009)
"CTRLR is a user-controlled digital environment that utilizes color and motion tracking to explore ideas of human interaction and control, as well as the human-avatar relationship. The user/participant uses their own body movement to interact with an interface borrowed from classic NES video games, becoming the on-screen performer in an external part of the installation. Here the participant becomes the mediated image, their every movement determined and controlled by the program."
"Bryan Cera retrofits obsolete digital technologies with simple interfaces and displays of complex reactive video software. These reprogrammed vintage electronics - sad in their form, and manic in their interaction - ask us to rethink the apparatus and to gesturally explore our machine experiences. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, Bryan Cera is actively engaged with the Milwaukee Art Scene and DIY community. He attends the graduate art program at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and works part-time as a Product Realization consultant at the UWM College of Engineering and Applied Sciences."
link: Bryan Cera
All images courtesy of the artist
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti