Two stuffed bears sit facing each other on top of a cardboard dresser façade. Each bear has a web cam inside of its nose. A live feed of the footage from both cameras is projected behind them as a diptych.
Computer-generated audio of Richard Brautigan’s poem All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace plays ambiently.
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Nanny Cam Cam transforms objects that we keep into objects that “keep” each other. It’s as if our intense need to look after our things has spawned a new breed of objects that mimic our habit even more intensely.
As these personal artifacts record each other, their relationship begins to supersede the one they had with their owner. Although the owner can watch her cherished toys' views of each other, she is effectively sidelined as they engage in their own “conversation.”
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inventori is a series of artworks that re-imagine a home inventory record as a more poetic and provocative type of archive. These hybrids of personal artifacts and technology challenge humans to rethink their relationships with and philosophical understanding of objects. What's a home inventory record?
Objects are unique signifiers of human experiences. Collections of artifacts allude to stories that are greater than the sum of their parts. What is lost when these collections are archived digitally? View this piece ›
How far will we go to maintain a connection to our archived objects? When our cherished things are packed away, our separation anxiety can be treated with an absurd coping mechanism: a closed-circuit television feed of the inside of the storage box. View this piece ›
Two toys are caught in a loop of mutual surveillance. Their technological prosthetics give them a literal point of view. With this, the objects themselves become the archival mechanism. View this piece ›
