Streams, Consciousness and Spaces in Between (Streams), is a computer driven installation and a series of digital photographs. All the photos for this project were shot driving or walking around Washington DC or from across the Potomac river in Arlington, Virginia. By using hand held to tripod and time-lapse photo techniques, Streams captures multiple viewpoints simulating the movement of our eyes and bodies in space. The animated stream of images also seeks to represent consciousness as a recollection of visual fragments that accumulate in our mind and memory. Streams records the distance in between different locations in a city and the temporal/physical space that divides them. The time-lapse photography sequences record lighting, climatic, and seasonal change. In the installation still images spill out of the LCD monitor to hang on the gallery wall as frozen instances in time. This piece is also a city portrait captured through digital technologies as a means to simulate human consciousness, perception and memory.


Streams
installation. The Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.

In the installation viewers interact with a touch pad equipped with nine sensors. Touching the pad triggers video and sound files visible on an LCD screen and audible through a head set.

As viewers interact with the piece they manipulate the frame rate of the animations and the sound modifying the overall perception of the work.