Life Support (day 238)

I took a breather today.  After attending the Masters of Digital Media graduation ceremony (which was awesome), I arrived home around 4pm and decided to make some tea, eat some chocolate from chocolate arts, and spend some time with a book that I've been meaning to re-open: "The Art of Projection" edited by Stan Douglas and Christopher Eamon.  A few pages in I started to get some ideas about the screenshots and snapshots I've been collecting.  I started to think of what it feels like to be observed by my own computer.  At the beginning I was self-conscious, then I became annoyed, then oblivious, then embarrassed, then impatient.  As the shots pile up, I've become somewhat anxious about what the end game is.  What will I do with all these?  Steve asks me every now and then.  I've always replied that I didn't know.  Today I had an idea.  The sketch is below.  A LCD screen shows a video of the screenshots, and the top of the screen where a camera would usually be, a miniature projector projects the portrait snapshots onto a suspended concave structure (textured material, probably paper clay).  In between the two, embedded in a supporting plinth is an organ-like inflatable structure that 'breathes' (mechanics and electronics inside the plinth).  The sound is similar to a life support respirator in a hospital.  I'm not clear on the form of the breathing structure.  Probably amorphous.  I'd like it to be uncanny, like an organ.  With an affect similar to the organic game pod in Cronenberg's Existenz.

A song (clip) for this post.