Kinetic Artwork Attempts to Get a ‘Little Piece of Privacy’

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56 points·bthallplz··11 comments

This is a cute little art project.

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This is great. Those curtains are so loud though, they could really use some silent drape runners[1].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/Mzj9QsY

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Commercial linear induction motors were invented by someone at the Kirsch Company to solve just that problem.[1][2] It was a real product, it sold, but it didn't catch on.

[1] https://www.kirsch.com/about-us [2] https://books.google.com/books?id=bdgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA163

Previous “discussion”, just a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826002

So cute!

It's ironic that the artist used a video camera (a rather privacy-invading tool) to detect where the subject is, in order to move the curtain (to shield privacy). A more honest implementation could have used low-resolution ultrasonic proximity sensors or something like that.

Yeah, that's the intent of the artwork.

It's his little piece of privacy, not yours.

Is the artwork the curtains, or the people’s reactions to it?

I’m sure the cctv is perfectly legal wherever this is located and people don’t have expectation of privacy while walking down a city street.

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