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Refracted Time Reflects Audience Experiences Inside And Out

A virtual crystal that reflects… you.

Refracted Time by Korean designers Kiheon Shin and Youngho Lee (aka ZIZIZIC) makes a spectacle of surveillance. The installation, exhibited at the 2011 Korea International Art Fair (KIAF), features a reflective floating crystal interface that juxtaposed the relationship between two different corridors in the space. It brought the outside in and the inside out by recording curious and unassuming passersby as they entered the building—projecting their entrances onto various faces of the crystal.

Up close, viewers’ pensive stares were also recorded and projected on the facade of the installation, creating an interactive atmosphere that instantaneously changed the uncomfortable feeling of surveillance into a light-hearted vehicle of self-discovery. As a unique manifestation of experiential refraction, Refracted Time spatially and temporally reorganizes the viewer’s experience as the crystal metaphorically reflects the ever-changing physical characteristics of its surroundings.