Analog (three cameras through a model of Haus Wittgenstein)

Installations:
Re-building the World, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta (2005)
Sharjah Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (2005)
The Greenroom, CCS Bard, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY (2008)
Conspiracies of Illusion: Projections of Time and Space, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario (2012)
Project 35: The Last Act, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia (2016)

Three channel video with sound
Audio by Stephen Murray
2005

Analog (three cameras through a model of Haus Wittgenstein) is an animation that takes place in a 3-d computer model of the house that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, in collaboration with the architect Paul Engelmann, designed and built for Margarethe Stonborough, Wittgenstein’s sister. The animation is presented in three parts. Each part presents a camera on a track. Each track is a path that is a separate and unique loop traveling throughout the main floor of the house. Each loop branches off at set points in the path to enter another part of the house. A prerecording of the loop from each of the cameras is used as a simulated film projection to illuminate the path of each of the cameras as they travel through the rooms of the house. The prerecording is playing 8 seconds ahead so that the film projection not only illuminates the rooms of the house but also provides a preview, cast onto the surfaces of the rooms of the position of each camera in the next 8 seconds. The tracks not only anchor the camera to the path — and by extension to the house — but are also trajectories prefiguring the cameras’ future position. Each part/camera is simultaneously a projection, a light, and a document.