Daniel Rozin

As a “new media” artist, Daniel Rozin creates interactive digital art sculptures and installations. The pieces I’ve been looking at are all based on the idea of reflection using the principles of mosaics to deliver an image that directly connects to the viewer. He uses computers that are hardly visible to control the movement of each piece.

Rozin was born in Jerusalem, but he now lives and works in New York. He is an art professor at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, as well as the owner of his software company, Smoothware Design.

He has won numerous awards for his work in industrial design and within the multimedia community including the Prix Ars Electronica, ID Design Review and the Chrysler Design Award..

I find his work fascinating because of the way he is able to manipulate his materials, such as wood or trash, and use light to control the illusion of a reflection in an otherwise non-reflective surface. It is amazing to see the transformation of the materials and the elegant collaboration of the digital elements working with the sculptural elements.

This is a video of my favorite piece:

Wooden Mirror - 1999
830 square pieces of wood, 830 servo motors, control electronics, video camera, computer, wood frame.
Size - W 67” x H 80” x D 10” (170cm , 203cm, 25cm).
Built in 1999, this is the first mechanical mirror I built. This piece explores the line between digital and physical, using a warm and natural material such as wood to portray the abstract notion of digital pixels.

All of my information and images were from the following site:

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/index.html