Projects: Smoke

Smoke (2005) is an interactive window display where cigarette smoke transforms a recorded video of a solo dance. Designed by Christopher Cummings, Timothy Mohn, and Mohit SantRam to be installed in a window outside a dance studio or performance space, Smoke is motivated by and reflects upon the prevalence of smoking in the dance community. Participating in the installation requires that a user smoke a cigarette, but continued transformation of the video eventually renders the image meaningless. Danced by Marissa Nielsen-Pincus to choreography by Zach Morris, the installation was originally shown at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) winter show in 2005.