Despite all claims that modern technology lays to interactivity, a truly encompassing and stimulating sensory experience in exhibitions of media art is extremely rare. By chance INMYX stumbled upon a work that is an unusually successful blend of art and technology at the Natural Habitat exhibition in Amsterdam’s Montevideo/Time Based Arts. The Camera Lucida by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand requires utter darkness, and our wait in front of a small chamber - the installation only admits a few people at a time - was well worth it. Once inside, Dmitry first invited us to sit and get accustomed to the total lack of light, before he led us to positions with our noses just centimeters from what seemed to be a huge fishbowl perched on a high pedestal. Then, without much ado, the play of light and sound began. ...
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