Mirrored room  [Image no. 10237]

Artist statement:In The Mirrored Room two surveillance cameras create a 3D stereoscopic mirror image of the gallery space and its inhabitants. Visitors to the gallery are invited to don a pair of anaglyph glasses (the kind used to view 3D movies) and interact with an image of themselves that floats in a fluid space - at times existing in front of the screen, at other times sunk back behind the screen. Immersed in the space of the image, the viewer is an active participant in the work. Ideas of immersion and interaction are common themes in the rhetoric surrounding new media. Here however, the reference is to older technologies of vision - to the photographic and televisual images that both disrupt and expand our ordinary experience of space and time.For more information about this item, browse to http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/398