Golan Levin is an American new media artist who creates artifacts and work in order to provoke reactive expressions from the viewers and audience. He received a Masters degree in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT in 2000 and has since been teaching computational design courses in New York City as well as freelancing. His work focuses on the creation, manipulation and performance of image mixed with sound. This type of art requires all of the senses to take part in the interaction.
One of his interactive pieces that fascinates me is entitled Opto-Isolator which sums up the type of art that Levin creates. I have added a few still images below of this particular piece which demonstrates the idea of "what if artwork knew how we looked at it?" An interactive eye robot was installed in a box with a sensor on it that reacts to the viewers movements. The eye moves in relation to the person's movements. (I suggest you watch the video of the work in action and you can find it on his website.)
During an art show/ within a gallery, a piece of art can be viewed a number of different ways according to the taste and opinion of the person studying it. Levin transformed this interesting idea that every artist is aware of into an interactive artwork in such a clever and effective manner.
I enjoyed all of the work that I viewed on Levin's site, so if you would also like to check it out, here is the link: http://www.flong.com/
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