Synchronous Gaze, NASA ISS public domain video, video projection, projection screen, frozen lake, 2021
The camera on the ISS pointed down onto the Earth, surveys our planet making visible an extraordinary picture. The live stream video allows the spectator to look back at themselves through the streaming video onto the projection screen. The projector screen acts as a mirror allowing the spectator to look back at themselves and the earth by way of the camera’s gaze. We are both the observer and spectacle as our eyes watch one another’s world pass by. This experience demands us to be an active participant in the artwork requiring us to consider our place in the world at that very moment.
Sponsored by Andrew and Carol Phelps, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison’s Central Business Improvement District, JD McCormick Properties
Thank you to Alice and Dave Erickson for installation consultation
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