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The Medium
2002
"All media
work us over completely. They are so persuasive in their personal, political,
economic, aesthetic, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they
leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is
the massage."
-- Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, 1967
Two facing seats are divided by two back-to-back flat screen LCD video monitors, with two small video cameras attached. When people sit facing each other in the niche, the screens act as the medium through which they perceive each other. The cameras, one pointing at each viewer, project a live feed image to each of them of each other. The two people converse through the medium of the video image. The image goes through a series of random transformations, e.g., black and white, negative, etc., and occasionally fades to the viewer's own image.
Murphy Hall, University of Minnesota School of Journalism
and Mass Communication.
Commissioned by the Art on Campus Program
7' X 5' X 16"
mixed media
Public
art coordinator: Shelly Willis
Video processing by Joshua
Goldberg and Jasper Speicher 
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