Love will tear us apart is an interactive installation based on the premise that for any relationship to flourish, the physical distance between the people involved should be in constant flux.
A reactive tapestry of sound and video encourages particpants to move about and find the constantly changing ideal distance between them.
Blue turns into red. Tones into melody. Two into one. But in order to protect their relationship, they always have to be on the move. Never really together, never really apart.
To play, two people
Enter the space
Put on headphones
Enter the playing area
The installation uses infra red LEDs embedded in the participants headphones and an IR camera suspended from the ceiling to track movements. This data is then fed into a Max/MSP patch for audio processing, and an Adobe Flex application for visuals and game logic.
Perceptor with Ella Keijzer and Stelios Giannoulis.