Specter

This piece is done with multiple video cameras recording simultaneously with slightly altered angles and perspectives from an interior window space upon a street scene over the course of an evening. The cameras' recordings are controlled by the sensing of motion. When they "perceive" a threshold of movement they begin recording at one frame per second- and stop after a few seconds of stillness. It is a watchful eye of surveillance, the interior viewing the exterior. To further the notion of virtual vs. actual and interior vs. exterior, I project the images taken from the multiple cameras back onto the window space that they were originally captured from - crossing the membrane of the window and bringing the exterior inside.

Though transporting the outside inwards is something the cinema has always accomplished, I wanted to play with a literal mixing of the screen/window vernacular of visuality, the cubist belief in the liberation of vision through multiple angles and Friedberg's notion that " a "windowed" multiplicity of perspectives implies new laws of "presence - not only here and there, but also then and now."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Surveillance
• Multiple
• Camera
• Array
• Simultaneity