A Time and Place (2021) - Panoramic projection piece with TouchDesigner and Kinect
There are three towers to the viewer's left, and three to their right. They only need lift their arms and point, and they will assume complete control over forming their surroundings at will. The screens beg the viewer to explore outside the gallery walls with a simulated 3D effect made by fine-tuning a multi-cam rig in a virtual 3D space.
"Actually, there's only one instant, and it's right now, and it's eternity."
The piece offers the viewer an opportunity to experience the here and now in various forms, all at once. The environment may read as a giant machine that allows the viewer to travel through space and time at will, with a simple voluntary action. Alternatively, the piece may read as a way to picture every space as here, and every moment as now. Is there utility to be gained from immediately accessing all these locations and times, and experiencing them as all part of the same moment? How can this apply to one's personal life - experiences, memories, plans, future anticipations? Rather than thinking of these things existing at separate times in different places, what can be achieved from viewing the past, future, places near and far as all part of the same "here and now"?
Exhibited for critique at Alfred University's Immersive Gallery, December 2021.
