Nanning/Shanghai

2003

An early proposal for an interactive installation, Nanning/Shanghai gives participants the ability to select clips of video and still-images through touch-screen technology to be viewed on large projections. The two opposing screens are framed in an aluminum network. Each projection displays the same video content accessed by two independent systems. An automated image-sequencing is on view when not interactively activated. The content available for selection presents a dynamic portrait that documents two major Chinese metropolises. Freehandedly filmed from the perspective of a car, the accumulated imagery ranges from abstract to subjective views of the city. Each image-link on the screen gives access to different scene-units that lead to open-ended variations.