Vanishing Point, site-specific video installation

Vanishing Point was installed in a storefront window on Main Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in conjunction with Video Culture: Three Decades of Video Art. Two display monitors form an angle that reflects the forced linear perspective of the street plan. Continuously receding footage of a colorful garden forms the background of a stream of sampled media that appears to flow across the surface of the screen. Individual images are recognized momentarily in a haze of changing contours and quick edits. The installation employs Main Street as a way to frame the representation of a cultural shift, where the transformation of public space and virtual space is mediated by accelerated communication technology. Vanishing Point positions the viewer as spectator/participant in a contemporary American vista.

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