2011
Interactive installation
Projector, camera, lighting, screen, computer
50 × 80 × 80 in.
Exhibited: Rundgang 2011, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM), Cologne, Germany
My Eyes Your Eyes explores perception as a state of multiplicity, in which image, body, and consciousness continuously shift between presence and disappearance. The installation seeks an experience that suspends the weight of the body and opens awareness to the immediacy of the present.
In a dark hallway, a spotlight at the far end faces visitors as they walk toward it. A camera beneath the light takes in the light reflected from each visitor’s body as live input. Through real-time computer vision processing, the computer generates a blurred figure in which only the most brightly lit areas come into focus, and projects it like a mirror onto a screen in front of the visitor.
Visitors see themselves emerge from darkness and blur. What appears is not their body but the light their body returns: the parts turned toward the source come into focus, while the rest remains unresolved or vanishes altogether. As they move, their image gathers and scatters with the light, and perception becomes an ephemeral field of relation between body and system. Recognizing themselves in shadow, or losing themselves within the visual field, visitors meet their own being as fluid and unstable, where appearance and disappearance coexist as equal conditions of awareness.
my eyes your eyes
