Repurposed Reality LUMA Festival

Repurposed Reality is a single channel ongoing video installation composed of an assemblage of discarded objects, such as fake televisions, dead computer monitors, aluminum cans, and even the artist's own worn-out shoes. Although the objects are inert, a precisely calibrated projection activates them and brings them to life. The projected imagery makes use of videos from the artist’s personal life, found internet videos, daily life captures, AI generated imagery, and animations made from 3D scanning piles of trash in NYC. The intended effects is to blur the line between the private and personal, the real and imagined, the simulation and the simulated. The imagery washes over the viewer in an overwhelming fashion much like our daily feeds. Unsure where to look or focus, the imagery oscillates through a range of emotions as the viewer attempts to make sense of the barrage of imagery.

The initial iteration of the installation was in Brooklyn in 2023. This video is documentation of the second version of the project at LUMA Festival in Binghamton, NY. In addition to rearranging the physical objects, the new version of the piece included reworked AI content and new textures and animations for all objects.

For LUMA Festival, the installation lived outside for 3 days, each night the projector had to be recalibrated as the tech portions of the installation could not stay on site overnight.