The interactive hologram display is an art installation leveraging a live holographic projection rendered using p5.js, multiple sensors, inputs and outputs, and user interaction. A virtual copy of the user is projected in an ephemeral, intangible and transient hologram to delineate the role of art in a technological era, whereby digital reproductions of objects that exist in the physical world are created in cyberspace devoid of a physical embodiment. This contrasts every day life, in which objects are touched, change and decay. In the physical world, individuals are able to interact with every day objects in ways that allow us to experience their materiality and changes in material states - qualities that have meaning for us as material beings. Users of this installation experience interacting with version of themselves from the outside, disembodied, looking in, reinforcing the notion of spectatorship rather than the experiential; a result of the technological era. Motion, movement, and proximity to the webcam, however, activates different filters to represent the multifaceted nature of a user. This interactivity transforms the user as not only creators or controllers of art but also into the art object itself, thereby encouraging users to participate in the creation, production, and distribution of art. This project ultimately emphasises the democratisation of a domain such as art and curation that was previously exclusive only to a cultural and economic elite.

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