A Fitting: A Fitting featured on Kill Screen

Thursday, September 6, 2012

A Fitting featured on Kill Screen

"A young woman models an elaborate dress in front of a shadowy and judgmental audience. As she contorts her body into increasingly untenable positions, the audience rewards her with their approval. If she stops, they scowl, then leave.

This isn’t a description of a fashion show. It’s the premise of the new Kinect game and art installation, A Fitting, which asks players to put themselves in physical pain to gain the admiration of others."

Check out the full article by Joseph Bernstein

This art game actually judges your body

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About A Fitting

Gone From an Age: A Fitting is a Kinect based digital art installation that explores the relationship between cultural and personal expectations of body image. The game is an interactive theatrical performance where the player takes the role of a young woman in front of a large mirror, with an audience watching her in its reflection. The audience and the game itself prompts the player to twist, contort and bend his/her body in order to progress. Doing so receives approval from the audience and game, but at the cost of the player’s discomfort.