Findings

Interactive Video Installation
2007

Video projection, tiles, lamps, computer.

This project comments on migration and the fragile nature of memory, and how it aids in the construction of a subjective history in relation to physical traces, fleeting images and photographs.

On the floor there are white tiles with a printed text, and decorations that resemble the mudéjar (Islamic) design. This Arabic influence can be found in Colombia due to Spanish colonization, and there is a strong presence of immigrants from Arab countries, more specifically Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, my grandparents' birth town. On the wall, videos will be projected, which will change according to the movement of the public before the tiles.

The spectator triggers one of six different videos when they stand in front of each of the tiles. The difference of light and shadow is calculated through a webcam input to determine where the person is standing. The videos are controlled using cyclops/ max/msp software.

This interactive video installation reflects on memory, movements of change and transformation and the mourning for that which has been lost.  What is to become? We are made of changes and repetitions, of landscapes and houses.