Nine Spaces uses depth to create seemingly discrete spaces. The body cannot be seen in its entirety, but it can occupy multiple spaces simultaneously.
Depth data from a Kinect was partitioned into nine slices, where only objects that intersect each slice are made visible. With the spaces organized as a grid, the partial representation of a fragmented body moves between them. If the nine spaces weren’t ordered and seen at once, would the figure still read as one body? How does having many spaces create the appearance of many bodies?
The black-and-white representation creates ambiguity when two bodies occupy the same space. Which fragments are part of the same figure?
Technical
The map is generated in Processing, using the Open Kinect for Processing library. As detailed in previous posts, gray scale values represents distance from the Kinect sensor, and each space only draws the pixels within a specified range.