2019 –
Video installation series, realized as site-specific iterations
Custom software, Google Street View imagery, projection
untitled [ ] repurposes Google Street View imagery, turning a tool for navigation and documentation into a nonlinear, temporal landscape. Each iteration fills the brackets with the city it takes as its site. Rather than a fixed location, the city becomes a topological environment experienced through time.
A custom video interface overlays sequential images and gradually erases them, producing rapid transitions that simulate continuous movement through urban space. At intervals, the system recalls static frames and blends them into the flow. These interruptions work like flashbacks, recovering fragments lost to speed and direction.
Projected at life scale across adjoining gallery walls, the work places viewers inside a dislocated urban space where continuity and interruption coexist. Street View is one-way by design: images captured at some point in the past are received in daily use as the present state of a place, one that can be navigated but never answered. The work reflects on this one-way interactivity as a barrier to communication. By treating a ubiquitous digital archive as perceptual material, untitled [ ] asks how a place is remembered when it is known through the images a machine keeps of it.
