Interactive computer video installation
University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)

Real door (closed), portal/porch, catwalk, video projection with computer animation, live camera, video player and videotape, speakers, computer, switcher, sensors

Behind the computer-animated door is the "direct video transmission" of what is happening outside, at the place where the viewer is coming from. Simultaneously, the window in the same large-screen projection shows a past situation: mounted time-lapse video recordings taken at night from the same camera angle. The viewer is seemingly the master of the central perspective: by walking forward she/he triggers the opening of the projected door. The catwalk keeps the viewer in line with the projected event. A simultaneous presentation, the relativity of the present and the past, the real and the projected, is staged in the installation.

Simulated architecture, a traditional element of art since the Renaissance, Baroque and Mannerism, is advanced into media-specificity. The media act as doubling machines, increasing the realism and the trompe l'oeil through the moving image.