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Assemble, in a shared physical field, the antagonistic (and anachronistic) beams of machine vision, human sight, and the rays of the sun- the progenitor of all optical experience.
Invert the status of the privileged/ mobilized observer- the explorer, mapper, penetrator of both geographical and cultural otherness through "sightseeing". In a reversal of these vectors of desire and curiosity, this room and its occupants become the recipients of a disembodied (solar and video) gaze.
Physically puncture the black box in which media/ video art usually resides. Within this newly self-conscious interiority, the observer is denied the "infinite horizon" of cinema. Other, neighbouring, unacknowledged or forgotten vectors are foregrounded.
The camera obscura model is thus reworked in the context of contemporary vision- as a site observed, penetrated and "painted" by the outside.
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With many thanks to:
Jennifer Steinkamp
Erkki Huhtamo
Victoria Vesna
Rebecca Allen
Osman Khan
Apurva Pande
Chinmaya Mishra
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Interior Design received the first prize in the David Bermant Foundation: Color Light Motion Award (for graduating MFA students ) 2003. More information on the foundation's activities and their extensive collection of kinetic art >>.