Tic

Tic

camera, projector, screen, motion tracking program
dimensions variable
2015

Tic, short for ‘nervous tic’ is an interactive video installation that captures and continuously loops one second of movement when a viewer walks in front of a projector and camera. The video installation projects a viewer’s recorded reaction to a previous viewer’s interaction, compounding waves of bewilderment. I borrowed strategies from Michaelangelo Pistoletto’s Mirror Paintings to implicate the viewer in a work, and anxieties about whether or not artists can directly convey meaning through art after reading Roland Barthes’ Death of the Author. I also wanted to make something funny and a tiny bit uncomfortable, like me.