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Nocturne is an interactive media installation
focusing on animals such as opossums, gophers and the endangered kit
fox that have found successful niches within the urban and suburban
landscape. Footage of these animals is captured using video live traps
and surveillance equipment. In the gallery, each captured video plays
on a LCD screen or projection scaled to the creature's actual size.
The video responds to the presence and actions of the human viewers
visiting the gallery, becoming a mediated exchange between co-inhabitants
of urban spaces. The project's intention is
not only to acknowledge the individual lives of the animals represented,
but also to forward the idea that they have an important presence in
our contemporary city space—a presence that insists that the boundary
between man-made and natural remains permeable. |