The concept for this installation centers on the self,
and how we ultimately have control over how rushed or focused we allow our
lives to be. The monitor will be running a 4-minute video shot from the window
of a fast moving train, on a continuous loop (fig. 1 above). Trees and scenery flicker by at a
breakneck pace, until a viewer moves closer to the monitor to investigate. The webcam will identify their face, and begin to increase the numbers
on an xfade object until their image is competing equally with the train video (fig. 2).
At this point they still have not found clarity—the scenery continues to click
by rapidly, somewhat interrupting the image of their face.
That is where the computer mic comes into play. A small
placard (or possibly a message on the screen, setup through presentation mode?)
will encourage them to speak their thoughts into the mic, entreat them to ask things to slow
down, etc. At a certain threshhold (so as not to let the background noise of
the space trigger this) their voice will cause a slide object to begin blurring
the train video, smoothing it out and making their face stand out clearly against
a much calmer background (fig. 3). With the cessation of their voice the slide begins to crawl back down, bringing the train video back as it was.
I’m tentatively calling this installation “Breaking Through”.
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