The Virtual Window Interactive
by Anne Friedberg
Design and Programming by Erik Loyer
2007
This project uses the Flash plug-in, which is no longer supported by Adobe. As an alternative, view the project's video documentation below.
A companion piece to Anne Friedberg’s book The Virtual Window in which users can play with various combinations of formats, content and viewers to explore the ways in which apertures of vision affect the content we experience within them.
Video Traversal
A high quality recording of the project as a user might experience it.
Images
Users click and drag to open an aperture within a darkened room.
A variety of aperture types are available for the user to choose from; each has a different effect on what is seen through the aperture.
Unusual combinations are possible, as seen here with a painting frame enclosing a screenshot from the Mac OS X interface.
A wide range of content is also available to place within the apertures, from Renaissance paintings to cinema to digital interfaces.
Mobile devices can also be used as apertures, to explore how small screens affect the viewing of all kinds of content.
Keywords floating in the viewing space can be expanded to reveal related discourse and theory.