Periferal Visions is a multimedia installation, a DVD-ROM and a series of digital images. In the installation viewers sit in front of a large video projection screen. Sound emanates from four speakers. Viewers interact by moving a computer mouse placed on a rear lit translucent pad. Moving the mouse triggers different sounds and varies the speed of a main screen animation. Clicking on this animation opens new sequences comprised of five QuickTime movies defined by a red border. The mouse location triggers the five QuickTime movies that unfold, start and stop to create an ever-changing image that relies on viewer participation. Periferal Visions investigates a simultaneity of past, present and future events that collapse within the video frame. The image created becomes a metaphor for a transient condition. The project explores the potential of digital sound and image processing to create a condition that focuses on the margins of physical and mental sensory experience.

The structure of Periferal Visions is non linear and branches outward without a beginning or an end. While interacting viewers define new paths and duration and are transported from an ordinary to an extraordinary space. Viewers are immersed within urban and natural landscapes that coexist and create feelings of displacement and flux. The software is based on an open structure. At any time new sequences may be added or subtracted to make this piece an ever changing work in progress. Periferal Visions proposes a new hybrid form that attempts to merge art practice, science and technology.