An interactive video installation created by Karla Calderon and Patrick Grizzard, Here and There is informed by an engagement with and interest in the following ideas and themes: Duality and nonduality. Presence and absence. Trace and index. Spatial and temporal dislocations and the experience of being in multiple places or times at once. The question of what it means to view oneself in the act of viewing. The porosity/instability of borders between private and public, self and other, viewing subject and object of contemplation.

(Technical Description)

Video installation that combines live & recorded video within a recreated cinema setting, using a video camera, projector, screen, theater chair, ambient lighting and audio appropriated from classic Hollywood cinema. When the viewer takes their seat, the lights go down, a scene of a movie theater is projected on the screen, accompanied by the soundtrack to Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 classic Vertigo. A live video feed of the viewer is composited with recorded video of previous occupants of the seat, transposing the viewer into a virtual audience onscreen. The "virtual" audience, ghostly and semi-present, disappears and reappears in different seats throughout the auditorium.

A zoetrope is a device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. The term zoetrope is from the Greek words ζωή - zoe, "life" and τρόπος - tropos, "turn". It may be taken to mean "wheel of life". (from wikipedia)

This particular zoetrope is made from a combination of reclaimed and new materials including a pair of old bicycle wheels. There are three separate sequences of images, with two that can be viewed inside through the slits. The third sequence of images on top are transparent and cast a shadow of movement onto the wall behind.

Window Not S(t)ill is a virtual window that reports the current weather in the U.S. city of your choice. By entering a zip code, you receive the temperature and conditions - just as you would on most weather sites. In addition, you also receive an accompanying image and poem.

Descriptions and depictions of weather and feelings are often synonymous and sometimes even intertwined. This window plays with the notions of inside and outside and the ways in which our perceptions and sensations are shaped and colored.