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Categories: Installation
Keywords: Interaction | Object
Relevant passages:
Söke Dinkla «Virtual Narrations
From the crisis of storytelling to new narration as mental potentiality»
Works by Lynn Hershman:
Commercials for NY Hotel Rooms
CybeRoberta Deep Contact: The First Interactive Sexual Fantasy Videodisc Lorna Phantom Limb Photographs Roberta Breitmore Teknolust
Lynn Hershman
«A Room of One's Own: (Echo Narcissus)»
«‹Room of One‘s Own› requires a viewer/voyeur to peer into an articulated eyepiece that is placed at eye level and incorporates a movable periscopic viewing section. The very act of ‹looking› initiates the action. As the viewer/voyeur focuses on any of the objects in the room, images appear in a one-way mirror/wall via videodisc, projection and computer-based signals that also incorporate viedo images of the viewer‘s eyes the piece. [...] Within the miniature room, a small monitor exhibits the viewer/voyeur‘s eyes, so that whoever is watching becomes a virtual participant in the scene being seen.»
Lynn Hershman Leeson
(quoted from: Jeffrey Shaw/Peter Weibel (eds), Future Cinema. The cinematic Imaginary after Film, exhib. cat., Cambridge, Mass./London, 2003, p. 222.)
