Rachel Smith and Tim Vischer: Difference between revisions

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‘It often feels as if we can no longer experience anything if we don’t first alienate it. In fact,alienation may now be a necessary preface to experience. Anything too close to us bears the label ‘Objectify and Re-ingest’…… As a mode of experience it can be called degenerate, but it is no more so than our ‘space’ is degenerate. It is simply the result of certain necessities pressed upon us……You can only see what a good time you had from the summer snapshots. Experience can then be adjusted to certain norms of ‘having a good time’. These Kodachrome icons are used to convince friends you did have a good time - if they believe it, you believe it. Everyone wants to have photographs not only to prove but to invent their experience. This constellation of narcissism, insecurity, and pathos is so influential I suppose none of us is quite free of it.’ Brian O’Doherty

We want to draw attention to clothing choices and how the decisions involved affect our experiences. We have developed an interactive artwork which captures the clothing pattern of the wearers, then replicates and projects it onto others, the patterns objectified and re-ingested. Anyone can then enter the space and, using hand movements to erase the mapping, free the others from the projected self. This artwork connects digital to physical in the world of clothing choices, identity, experience and decisions around self projection.

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+‘It often feels as if we can no longer experience anything if we don’t first alienate it. In fact,alienation may now be a necessary preface to experience. Anything too close to us bears the label ‘Objectify and Re-ingest’…… As a mode of experience it can be called degenerate, but it is no more so than our ‘space’ is degenerate. It is simply the result of certain necessities pressed upon us……You can only see what a good time you had from the summer snapshots. Experience can then be adjusted to certain norms of ‘having a good time’. These Kodachrome icons are used to convince friends you did have a good time - if they believe it, you believe it. Everyone wants to have photographs not only to prove but to invent their experience. This constellation of narcissism, insecurity, and pathos is so influential I suppose none of us is quite free of it.’ Brian O’Doherty
+We want to draw attention to clothing choices and how the decisions involved affect our experiences. We have developed an interactive artwork which captures the clothing pattern of the wearers, then replicates and projects it onto others, the patterns objectified and re-ingested. Anyone can then enter the space and, using hand movements to erase the mapping, free the others from the projected self. This artwork connects digital to physical in the world of clothing choices, identity, experience and decisions around self projection.