“Penguins Mirror” Interactive Installation with Stuffed Animals by Daniel Rozin.

“Penguins Mirror” is an interactive installation comprised of 450 motorised stuffed animals that formed part of Daniel Rozin’s solo show at the Bitforms Gallery in New York.

Reductive in palette, yet baroque in behaviour, the installation performs an absurdly homogeneous system of movement. Playing with the compositional possibilities of black and white, each penguin turns from side to side and responds to the presence of an audience. As they perform, the penguins’ collective intelligence is puzzling, yet somehow familiar, as the plush toys enact a precise choreography rooted in geometry.

As with many of his other kinetic mirrors, Rozin makes use of the black and white colour tones found on the stuffed animals to generate moving silhouettes in response to movements captured by video cameras. Strangely awesome.

[Filmed and edited by Victoria Sendra.]