Thursday, November 27, 2008

Projecting Pastness: Memory and Time





This installation consisted of a chair, some history books and a lamp to read them by. The chair included a light sensor that was hooked up to a computer running the program I wrote which would trigger a camera to photograph the subject and re-project them on the wall when they left the scene. Additionally, when no one was interacting with the installation the computer would randomly recall moments from the past and replay them – not necessarily in the proper order, and sometimes deciding midway to mix them up. the captured images would also, once recalled, deteriorate with time and pixelate into obscurity. All these effects would also create visual feedback loops and that would fragment and redefine the "memories" as time past.

Obviously, the still pictures here, taken under low light, do not display much of the actual situation at all, but they are all I have to show for now.


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