In Watch, area of public space, separate from my installation, are watched by surveillance cameras. These images are processed in real-time and projected onto the wall of the installation space.
The video processes both present distortions of the perception of time. In one, the only things visible are things that are standing still. The effect is that of long-exposure photography, except that the image is truly live, changing subtly at every video frame. People that are moving are blurs or fogs across the image. People that are still are seen clearly.
The second process is the conceptual inverse of the first. People are only visible if they are in motion. They float as outlines of themselves in a dimensionless black void, and disappear again as soon as they are still.
The two images are projected side by side, with the second image flipped sideways to mirror the first image.
The artwork itself is active, a live perceptual filter through which the audience watches. The system has embedded itself into the feedback-loop of perception, transforming the process of looking.0