Description
Eye Contact is the first piece of the Shadow Box series of interactive displays with a built-in computerized tracking system. This piece shows eight hundred simultaneous videos of people lying down, resting. As soon as a public member is detected, his or her presence triggers the miniature video portraits to wake up:
hundreds of people simultaneously turn to look at the visitor directly, creating an uncanny experience that questions who is the observer and who is the observed.

Year of creation
2006
Technique
High resolution interactive display with built-in computerized surveillance system.
Dimensions
104.5 x 80 x 12 cm.
Manual

Exhibitions

• "Inpoliticos" (curator: Laura Bardier), Palazzo Art Napoli, Naples 2009
• "Synthetic Times - Media Art China, A Beijing Olympics Cultural Project" (curator: Zhang Ga), National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2008
• "Some Things Happen More Often Than All Of The Time" (curated by Príamo Lozada and Bárbara Perea), Mexican Pavilion – 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2007.
• "Art Basel, OMR Gallery, 2006

Photos
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Conroy Badger - programming
Pierre Fournier, David Lemieux, Natalie Bouchard - production support