Ars Electronica Futurelab developed Shadowgram as a method for social brainstorming through a creative catalyst methodology; a system that enables the audience to discover and contribute through their creativity. The term Shadowgram refers to an analogue photographic technique of

Photogenic Drawing; whereby an object placed on a sheet of photosensitized paper that through a light activated chemical reaction creates a shadow­image of that object on the paper.

 

Shadowgram is a conceptual extension of this idea, combining a video camera; human scale light box; image analysis software, and digital cutting machine. Each personal shadow­portrait acts as a start point for responding to the project’s provocation. With each shadow is a associated text presented on a sticker. The shadow and text unit creates a micro story that weaves into larger dialogues and groups, and eventually creates a large scale landscape of bodies, voices, ideas and questions.