Voyeuristic Self Reflection

This work is primarily designed to create a silent, self-reflective interaction and dialogue between contrasting elements. A conversation about voyeurism hosted in a maze-like pathway that ends with the voyeur becoming the subject of other voyeurs while injecting themselves into a projected animation of digital characters. An intimate balance of shapes and a play between light and shadows on surfaces will add to the overall experience of the forms in motion. As visitors interacted with the piece, they became part of it, embedded in the visual complexity for others to look in on.

The installation took over an entire room on the RISD campus with temporary walls to form the passageway through the experience. Cut-outs in the walls at various heights, allowed visitors to look in on the person in the central area. The projected animation was built from several live action clips in FinalCut Pro and Adobe AfterEffects. When a visitor sat in a chair in the central area, their face was placed into the animation, at the crux of the animated figures.