Healed (2015) is a real-time media sculpture that merges live web video feeds of physical objects to form a single, site-specific video montage.
For the duration of the exhibition, one camera was fixed on a Bust of a boy, (Roman, ca AD 140) from the museum’s art collection and another was fixed on a 3D modeled and printed nose scanned from a living boy. Neither the bust portrait or the nose object were near the resulting projection in the gallery, but remained in separate locations at a distance from the main exhibition space. Bust of a boy was located on an upper level of the museum where it is part of the ongoing display of ancient artifacts and the small 3D printed nose was on display on the opposite side of the gallery, where both were united in a large projection that appeared to “heal” or mend both portraits through layering their video feeds. The project sought to create a hybrid, contingent sculpture that relied upon existing, but incomplete physical works in order that a new, more ephemeral work might be experienced as whole, precarious and interdependent.
Exhibitions: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, 2015.
Materials: (2) wireless web cameras, marble bust, polymer model, (2) PCs, (2) video projectors.
