[rift]

design & concept

photos & videos

rift is an interactive video installation that frees the viewer to move physically through the recorded time of video. timelapse video footage is fed through custom software that translates motion through the space of the installation into motion through the timeline of the video. visitors engage the projected image alternately as explorers, navigating recorded time with their movements, and as painters, using their gestures as strokes on the video canvas.

rift was conceived and developed by doron altaratz, scott fitzgerald, and eric socolofsky. it was initially installed in T-Minus 2005, a timelapse video show held at Synchronicity Space, New York City, February 2005.