Shadowbox is a project that I worked on at the MIT Media Lab in the Tangible Media Group during Fall 2008. It is part of a bigger project called Tangible Web that tries to give objects on the web properties of physical objects. Shadowbox is a viewer for Youtube that displays the number of people who are also watching a video as moving silhouettes at the bottom of the browser. It explores the idea that in the physical world, people often watch movies together. The silhouettes give the user a sense of the remote presence of other people on the internet.

I was art director for the project. I envisioned the Tangible Web projects as lenses through which people view the Internet to see interesting facets. Below is a screenshot of the Shadowbox placed in a computer screen.