The Meta Project. Part of San Jose Downtown Storefront Exhibition at Phantom Galleries

[Finally, I'm being noticed] was installed in April of 2004 in the front window display of the long closed Clara's Fashion store. Whenever a passerby approaches the display they, merely by their act of approach, manipulate what they are observing. Voyeurism is turned outward. The observer is inserted into the video feeds and he/she begins to be recorded. The image of the new audience overshadows the other surveillance feeds in direct proportion to how much they try to get the camera's eye. If they stand still their image begins to fade away, disappearing them once again from the monitor feeds. Their presence ceases to be recorded by the piece. They then blissfully return to their life of over documented anonymity.

music: The Postal Service

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