Earlier ads for television placed the tv as a main point of entertainment in the home. A safe place for the family to get together and enjoy their favorite shows. As time moved on, our desire to digest media didn’t change, but the device did shape, portability, and interact with us. Modern televisions record our voices, images, and data but remain disguised in fun entertainment.
How it works: The camera on the top is constantly recording the room. The feed is run through Isadora and output in two channels; the first feed is set to a 15-minute delay and rear-projected on the main screen – our thought is that in a gallery setting, a viewer would encounter footage of a previous viewer. The main screen cycles off to show an iPhone in the back of the casing live streaming the camera feed every two minutes.
One of the hardest parts of the physical construction was to find a material that could be used as a rear-projection screen. The balance between opaque and transparent was difficult to find.
Until we landed on a screen-printing screen that worked perfectly.
We experimented with multiple designs and tools to relay the image through Isadora back to the screens.
Project manager Sherry.
Custom rear-projection screen.
View from the front with rear-projection activated.
View from the front with rear-project off and the live feed activated on the phone.
View from the front with rear-projection activated.
View from the top with a projector in the back.
Final view.