Exposure: a 3-channel HD
video installation
Exposure
is
a projection-based installation, a restless slow motion picture
transformation, questioning the shift in the ideology that lead the
western world enterprise to develop its range of representation.
This imagery represents the ways in which our culture obsesses with
hyper-vigilance, penetration, and control.
Exposure will complete the exploration using large-scale X-rayed vehicles
as applied to architecture.
The x-rayed trucks reveal smuggled items - such as a Rolls Royce
inside a horse trailer, 3 million cigarettes camouflaged in a load
of scrap metal, or 2.5 tons of marijuana packed inside 896 rubber
bales. The house scanned by laser is located in the East Bay hills.
Colors are unchanged from the source imagery: they are technical
codes. The x-ray imagery uses color and grayscale to represent density,
establishing whether material is organic, non-organic or mixed. The
3D laser scans use "time of flight" to establish depth and "beam return
intensity" for color coding of surface characteristics, such
as brick, metal, or foliage.
Three high-definition projectors display imagery in 1080p HD widescreen
format. The projections are monumental in scale. All projections
begin with the same image. Each of the three projections transforms
into different images, based on large-scale X-rays and 3-D laser
scans of buildings.
One projection plays at a time. When its sequence is complete, the
screen goes black. Then the next sequence begins. After the third
sequence ends, all the projections immediately begin again –this
time projecting all sequences simultaneously. When each sequence
ends, it freezes waiting for the longest sequence to end. When all
three projections are frozen, the screens go black and the loop
begins again.
Total duration: 4'42"
Audio: the sound of mute.
Marie Sester, Concept and Direction
David Lawrence, Principal collaborator
Jim McKee, Sound design
Cyra Technologies, Oakland, CA Laser scan technology
Heimann Systems, Orly, France, X-ray image technology
Special thanks: Alonzo C. Addison, Director, Center for Design Visualization,
University of California, Berkeley; Benjamin Weil, Curator of Media
Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Dennis Martin, with Daniel
Chudak, Christian Pramuk and Miles Woodruff, Cyra Technologies Inc.;
Chantal Buard; Starr Sutherland; and a very special thanks to Michael
Naimark.
– First commissioned by the San Jose Museum of Art, USA
Exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art, CA, USA
August 5
- November 11, 2001
Merrill Falkenberg, Curator
– Re-rendered in HD for a three-channel installation in 2008
commissioned by gallery@calit2, San Diego, CA, USA
Exhibited at gallery@calit2, San Diego, CA, USA
April 10 - June
6, 2008
Three-channel Playback synchronization by:
Hector Bracho, Calit2 Media Specialist
Joseph Keefe, OptIPuter Project Manager
Eduardo Navas, Exhibit Curator
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Segment 1
15 sec
large
(2.6 M) small
(808 K)
Segment 2
19 sec
large
(3.3 M) small
(1 M)
Segment 3
25 sec
large
(3.7 M) small
(1.2 M)
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