Dan Shay
Royal Scottish Academy: New Contemporaries
Feb 15- March 12
Colourfall
Projection Installation, Infinite Loop
Colourfall uses DLP projection to create an interactive installation in which we can reflect on our immersion in technology. The projectors are used to traverse the increasingly ambiguous borders of our real and virtual spaces, cultivating a sense of awareness through our interaction within these divergent environments. Streaming identical yet paradoxically dissimilar imagery of the Falls of Foyers (themselves steeped in tradition concerning the studies of perception) the two projectors reveal an altered perception generated by technological processes. In this way, the Falls echo the long-established notion of the ‘Sublime,’ akin to that observed in works such as Friderich Edwin Church’s Niagra Falls, from the American Side (housed next door in the National Gallery of Scotland)-while expanding the definition to include technological phenomena, suggesting a new ‘Sublime.’
obersee
Digital film, 10:16
Obersee focuses on the development of a new process of filming, projecting, re-filming, and projecting, in which the imagery generated serves to reveal the constitution of the medium. Rather than using digital editing software, the footage is compiled physically by moving the projectors and adjusting cameras in an attempt to conduct and capture the intangible. Applying techniques of the past to the technology of the present in hopes of conjuring a vision of the future, the digital waves of information merge to convey a meditative journey into a place beyond continuously blurring boundaries.