ThisThat Network (TTN)

This interactive installation puts you in another person's shoes. In absence of the imagined viewer, we stand in their place, as the target audience for a cable news broadcast about leaked video footage of UFOs retrieving surveillance birds. ThisThat employs an animated clip of fictitious news, providing the viewer with a quickly accessible decision to make regarding one's own assessment of the scene. We can safely step away from the experience at any time. For those who take in the experience longer, and let the repeated cycles of the animated news take effect, their peripheral vision becomes focused on the immediate scene before them. They get a sort of tunnel vision and become part of the scene. It is through scale, proximity, and perspective that this moment is dialed up in intensity.

"ThisThat Network"

Acrylic, OSB plywood, metal, satellite dishes, TV, computer, animation, cables, 12 x 14 ft installed, 3 editions.