Inspiration

In 2005 Roch Forowicz set up surveillance cameras outside of three apartment complexes. This interactive work allows the viewer to click on individual windows of strangers and take a closer look into their lives. None of the subjects in these videos were aware of the filming taking place (until a notice was posted after the filming was done). This spying nature is what I would like to capture.

<http://www.environment.pl/>.

In 1996 a group named the Surveillance Camera Players began putting on shows for the anonymous viewers of surveillance cameras, the first show was in Manhattan’s Union Square subway station. From this example I have taken the drive to create a performance out of captured surveillance type video I will be capturing.

http://www.notbored.org/the-scp.html

. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RILTl8mxEnE

By far the longest piece of video art I have seen is Koyaanisqatsi. Directed by Godfrey Reggio in 1982, this film whose title literally means “crazy life” or “life out of balance” was the direct inspiration for this final assignment. I wanted to take the idea of how oblivious we are in our daily travels. I literally want to cut video footage apart and take unsuspecting people and transform them.