Human Self-Reflection v.20:20
Interactive new media installation

Live camera, archive video, iMac, plastic soldiers and artist-designed software.

 

 

Human Self-Reflection is a video installation project, in which viewers are faced with a digital mirror - their face made up of sample video footage, forcing them to reflect upon issues which they might usually ignore or deny - like environmental catastrophe, or third world exploitation, or even their own inner beauty.

Superceding our first version, the film based Example No.5 - Clippers Made In China, the 20:20 installation offers the audience a Haphazard Mirror, in which the viewers reflected image forces one to confront global self-truths about what it is to be human, regardless of whether it is a pretty / handsome thing looking back.

Loosely themed on conflict for the Static 2 event in Hereford, in Version 20:20, Fowler+Sumner present a visual history of 20th /21st century warfare, literally through the eyes of the viewer.

Images on the left are stills of the installation at Static in April 2008, including the custom mouse with toy soldiers inside the clear casing. Images on the right are examples of output when interacting with the installation.

 

 

 
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