2016
installation
Arduino, stepper motors, fishing wire, shoes, webcam, TV monitor
I am talking to myself is a mechanical feedback loop. A pair of empty shoes, suspended by fishing wire and driven by stepper motors, walks in place without ever moving forward. A webcam at eye level records the walking and relays it live to a television set in front of the shoes, so that the system watches its own motion as it happens.
Action and image return to each other continuously, and each step becomes both input and output. The walker is absent, replaced by mechanical repetition, yet the human body remains the reference the whole system is built around: its height, its gait, its point of view. What is left is a loop that speaks only to itself.
feed. feed back. feedback.
I'm talking to myself 
