Ethnography and Folklore Museum, La Paz-Bolivia, 2011

This installation revisits a fragment of time continuously, thinks persistently 5 minutes of a yesterday, remixes its internal order obsessively to try to look in different ways a small bit of past. In Micro-nostalgia the present is just an excuse to reorder a not forgotten episode.

A projection shows a window where one can see what is currently happening on a street near the exhibition space. Another one shows a real time edited video of a performer executing the gestures a person did during 5 minutes of conversation. The algorithmic decisions that determine the way in which this video is edited are partially influenced by what is on view through the projected window. Aspects such as how much time has passed without too much movement, towards which direction is the majority moving, how sunny or how gray the day is, how dark is the evening or the night, have an effect on the editing decisions.

2012 Embedding Absence, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA. Group exhibition
2011 High Tech Low, Ethnography and Folklore Museum (MUSEF), La Paz, Bolivia. Solo exhibition

Two-channel real time algorithmic video installation
Author: Annabel Castro
Photography directors: Ha Na Lee & Martin Jarmick
Performers: Anthony Apfelbeck, Brie Chung & Angela E. Weaver
Technical advice: Soyoung Shin
Production assistants: Melissa Ann Carter, Jennifer Locket & Samuel Potter