Tony Oursler

This piece by Tony Oursler, from a series called Peak, has intrigued me as the artist has experimented by projecting motion images onto an unusual context.

A review from the Lehmann Maupin gallery  states:
"The dynamic developing between humans and the virtual apparatus becomes and is an epistemological mirror of the human consciousness and, thus, is uncanny in its nature."

So Oursler's work, in this case, may be a 'reflection' of human perception and knowledge as well as the complexity of it. I believe that, by using projection in this way, Oursler has effectively conveyed this message. 


(Source(s): http://www.artnet.com/galleries/exhibitions.asp?gid=651&cid=208507 )

These are photographs of my attempts at creating an Ourler style projection.

 This effect was achieved by projecting a live recording of the subject peering through a custom made screen.

The projector pointed towards a screen placed opposite. The subject's expressions are then projected onto the object infront. In this case, a mask.

 

This is effective in anthropormorphising inanimate objects.

The video on the left is created in with the same technique however it is projected on a smaller scale.

This is a video, that Oursler recently made, to accompany David Bowie's song 'Where Are We Now?' I trialled a similar technique in my experiments.