Screening Reality
visual research on screen vs live reality
The Screening Reality project is a visual research on the increasing degree to which ‘live’ reality must compete with its representation: a ‘screen’ reality. As we more and more look at the world through the screen of a smartphone, a tablet or through Augmented Reality glasses, the preset window to the world (like television) quietly seems to disappear. In Screening Reality I’ve blended the screen reality with the live reality in both video and real life. Through subtle interventions in public space, I created an analog reaction to our screen-filled information society. Does the window of e.g. a bus stop change into a giant screen when placing the logo of a television channel on the glass?
Screening Reality / Protest
18 seconds loop, no audio
The interactive installation ‘Streaming Reality’ presents the live streams of unsecured IP cameras, merged with television-style elements like a news ticker. Carefully determined live twitter search results function as the subtitle of the streams.
The Verge interviewed me on the IP camera projection:
Privacy invasion or webcam art? ‘Screening Reality’ walks a fine line by Amar Toor on The Verge
Solo exhibition at LhGWR, The Hague January 27 – February 24, 2013