The ways in which we are changing how we both present and perceive ourselves in relations to forms of communication fascinate me. The ability to totally construct who we are via different mediums is a powerful and seductive (to me) process. Of course we never really have control over these means, even when we think we have them firmly in our grasp. Mediation is a flow which we can channel but never really harness. A lot of this desire to control/inherent inability to do as such drives a lot of the video work that interests me and that I try to create.
It seems that Krzysztof Wodiczko and his Interrogative Design Group at MIT have been giving this idea some thought too and have come up with a pretty interesting prosthetic device that explores how CCD's distort the reality they are purporting to record.
The IDG's HandMachine Project attempts to visually represent multiple perspectives simultaneously. Above being a neat techno parlor trick, it does a admirable job of concretely calling into question how mediation (and those that act to shape the filter there-of) acts to activly shape the version of reality that is presented to us.
Posted by thickeye at January 8, 2004 11:25 PM | TrackBack