An interactive video work. Using motion tracking sensors and projection mapping.

Curator’s Note

In Resurrection Machine Rasmussen orchestrates a delicate dance between the living and their digital phantoms. A seemingly simple mechanical armature—part surgical instrument, part divining rod—becomes a conduit for transformation, translating human movement into ethereal sky projections that tower above the gallery space.

The work operates like a seance for the digital age, where everyday gestures undergo a kind of technological transubstantiation. As viewers move through the space, their actions are captured, processed, and reborn as towering apparitions—each movement becoming a ghost in the machine, amplified and abstracted against the stark gallery walls. The golden skull element serves as a memento mori, a reminder of mortality that contrasts sharply with the fluid, immortal nature of digital capture.

This isn't just interactive art—it's a meditation on how technology preserves and transforms human presence. The "resurrection" happens in real-time, as analog movements become digital specters, suggesting a future where the line between flesh and data, presence and absence, becomes increasingly blurred. Through this mechanical medium, Rasmussen invites us to witness our own digital echo.