Repeating Days
25 Fall | VIS 2476 Visualizing the Invisible | Instructor: Craig Douglas & Stephen Guerin
This project employs AI-driven programming to develop a webcam application that uses visual effects to reconfigure perceptions of time and space, thereby challenging and producing new conceptualizations of “site.”
There is always such a path in life that you have to walk it again, and again, and again; you view the surrounding scenery again, and again, and again. Gradually, it becomes a trivial part of our existence - repeated so often that, unless we pay specific attention, it dissipates into memory and time.
The raw footage for this video is derived from the most ordinary of daily occurrences: a brief, 1-minute-and-20-second journey from the inside of an apartment to the outside. By warping, stretching, delaying, and overlapping the spaces we are accustomed to, the work subtly and repeatedly shifts our perception of space. Perspective, speed, optical imaging mechanisms, and even color all shape our understanding of space.
Through technical intervention, the moving image breaks the sensory numbness caused by functional, repetitive walking. It re-examines the "Infra-ordinary" around us through extreme conditions. Amidst repetitive yet progressive "Defamiliarization" and visual stimulation, the work engages in the overwriting of memory, allowing us to rediscover the micro-textures buried by the inertia of daily life.
