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![]() Three projection screens: 7'X7'(2) and 7'X3'(1). Three video projectors. (contrast increased here for the sake of illustration) |
You/me is a work of projected video in a darkened room. It was initially produced for a symposium and exhibition of work by artists and scientists titled "Threshold: Limits of Perception." The event was sponsored by Denis Pelli at the Perceptual Psychology department of NYU. | |||||
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Description: On
entering the room the viewer encounters three luminous screens seven feet
tall and a total of seventeen feet across, that wrap around the opposite corner
of the room. As the viewer's eyes adjust the luminosity gives way to a suggestion
of imagery so liminal that it's hard to be confident it's more than a perceptual
artifact or a product of the imagination. Vestigial forms are so unfocussed
and low in contrast as to be nearly imperceptible. Slow changes in movement
and tone engage the viewer's attention, as the images hover on the edge of
decipherability. One experiences the emergence (and active nature) of perception
as the images seem to coalesce out of light. Experiencing oneself perceiving,
becomes part of the subject of the work. A soundtrack of soft wind hovers
on the edge of seeming hushed whispering. In this quiet and luminous environment
one is confronted with one's own mind creating its illusions. |
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