TED VICTORIA's "Who's Out There?"
is a room installation that consists of one image that goes through several
transformations. The viewer is outside looking through a window into the
interior of a house. Objects inside the house appear in slow-motion, and
over a period of time are replaced by other objects. A narrative is created
through the movement and interaction of the images. The viewer becomes a
voyeur as the story unfolds in front of them.
This installation consists of ten projectors constructed by the artist,
each containing an actual object (usually a miniature) that the viewer sees
on the screen. These projectors are controlled by a dissolve unit that allows
for a slow transition from one image to the next. Victoria uses a functioning
clock in his installation to inform the viewer that the images are being
projected "live" enabling the still-life to become real
Victoria's light systems are much like the camera obscura used in the
past by Da Vinci and Vermeer except that the movement the viewer sees is
actually happening inside the installation and in real time. Additionally,
Ted Victoria doesn't use any formula or equation to achieve his images.
It is done through "eye-balling" and/or trial and error. This
enables the work to maintain a spontaneity that may otherwise be lost through
the development of a mechanical system. |