artist: Karin Arink
located in: De Vogellanden Centrum voor Revalidatie,
client: De Vogellanden Centrum voor Revalidatie

In cooperation with Arthur Clemens, Karin Arink created an interactive digital animation for the lobby of this rehabilitation center. On the touch-screen monitor, colored cellular shapes move across a black background. They seem to float and continually circumvent each other. When one touches the screen, blue bubbles appear that cause the shapes to change direction, sometimes to the extent that they bump into each other. If the collision is sufficiently powerful, the screen changes and opens a window in which another animation begins. This work of art features twenty one of these narrative animations. Each are more or less abstract and comment on the different states in which the human body may find itself, such as rest, movement, growth, touching and balance. In the end the window closes and the colored cells reappear on the screen. The only difference is that this time one of the cells has disappeared, which makes bumping more difficult and, hence, introduces a game element into the work.