By Mac McKean
Interactive Video Space
This is a record of a video installation I did at the Dumbo Arts Festival, in the lobby of the building at 15 Washington Street, across from the Dumbo Arts Council gallery.
The installation purports to be a room of a fictionalized early 70s suburban house. The lower half of the two rear walls are covered in cheap wood paneling and its furniture a hodgepodge of 50s, 60s and 70s pieces: chair, lamp, rug, table and stool. Laying about this room are a framed photograph,
stuffed goofy doll, cup of tea and plate of half-eaten spaghetti. When touched, these four "hot" objects each trigger the display of media--video, text and still images--on the upper-half of the room's walls, which are in fact reverse projection screens. Sound (abstract or a human voice) accompanies some of the videos.
One wall displays the video and images and the other wall, the text.
Only one visitor is permitted in the room at a time. And other visitors watch the action from a viewing area a few feet away. The visitor moving in the installation space soon discovers that he has become a performer and the room a stage.
To view a QuickTime tour of the installation, click
here.
To view QuickTimes of the media activated when a visitor touches the room's objects, click the following links:
Spaghetti,
Teacup
Goofy,
Photograph
Imagination/Isolation was developed at the Tisch School of the Arts, ITP Program, New York University. It was shown at Dumbo Arts Festival, Dumbo, Brooklyn, in October, 2003. Artist: Mac McKean
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