Vanishing Point
2000

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, a collaboration that joined the forces of eleven institutions in the metro Detroit area to examine video art and its impact on contemporary culture. Two display monitors create 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.