Pull and Sway, 2003 and 2004

Interactive video installation in collaboration with Dan Dean
Rear projected video, microprocessor, semicircle of five wooden floor tiles
Projection size: 9' x 6'

In Pull and Sway, the viewer becomes the light source.

Five floor tiles are arranged in a semicircle around a screen showing one of thirteen video clips of a man or woman sleeping on a bed. When the viewer steps onto a floor tile, the light source in that image snaps to their location, as though they are casting the light. As the viewer moves along the semicircle, the light moves with them, and they can illuminate certain features of this still scene, or obscure elements in shadow.